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Galería Reus is a contemporary art gallery based in Mallorca whose trajectory dates back to 2003. Over the years, the project has evolved through different forms of collaboration and programming, consolidating itself as a space dedicated to the research, production, and dissemination of contemporary art.

The gallery works with emerging and mid-career artists, supporting the development of their practices while creating a context for dialogue, experimentation, and reflection around the diverse forms of contemporary artistic expression. Its program is characterized by a diversity of languages and approaches, as well as an interest in establishing connections between the local artistic scene and the international context.

From Mallorca, Galería Reus aims to actively contribute to the contemporary cultural ecosystem by promoting projects that encourage exchange, artistic research, and the development of new perspectives.


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Represented
Alejandro Javaloyas
Callum Green
Daniel Roibal
Elen Braga
José Fiol
Karolina Albricht
Julià Panadés
Marian Garrido
Miquel Ponce




CollaboratorsAbel Jaramillo
Alexandra Hunts
Erika Trotzig
David Martín
Irati Inoriza
Tommy Lecot
Evgenia Duvnikova
Daniel Dominguez
Martin Paaskesen
Ricardo Cases






MACGUFFIN - SOLO SHOW

José Fiol



Dates
 15/09/2022 – 01/11/2022

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The drama of the monster is knowing that it is made of pieces of hundreds of corpses. Its organs were the organs of others, which is why a single DNA cannot be attributed to its body. But also, and probably for that very reason, anyone can imagine a carved up monster, separated into parts. The case of the ghost is exactly the opposite as no one can imagine a carved up ghost. No one can even imagine what the pieces of a ghost would be like; a mobile mass which, even though it is clear and has a well-defined body, takes on the appearance of smoke, of a flow that no one can hold on to. If the nature of the monster was corpuscular, that of the ghost is fluid. And how is it possible to chop up, cut or assemble parts of a fluid? It seems impossible, but let’s not be so quick to answer.

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To centre the topic: what is a Macguffin? Although it is extremely popular, we should remember that it is a concept coined by Alfred Hitchcock to refer to an element that advances the plot of a story, with the peculiarity that this element will ultimately be hidden. We will never know its true nature as it was a mere excuse to build the plot of the film, although its presence was essential for such a cinematic incident to have existed. The archetypal case is that of a briefcase containing secret documents, around which a plot of suspense will be created; of comings and goings of the briefcase, which will pass from hand to hand while the true story that we want to tell unfolds somewhere else.

The Macguffin exhibition, by the artist José Fiol, at the Fran Reus gallery, consists of paintings that are details of films. In other words, fragments of frames that were originally much larger and can be considered an interpretation of that narrative mechanism taken to the field of painting. The appropriation and subsequent redefinition carried out by the artist is subtle: the original frames are the excuse that caused these paintings that we now see to exist. They are the triggers that José Fiol used to tell us what he wanted to tell us. Frames that, even being there, like Macguffins they will remain hidden from our eyes. In this sense, Fiol’s paintings, being clearly figurative, delve headlong into the mechanics of the conceptual.

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-Agustín Fernández Mallo, November 2022-“original version in spanish”