Report on the Museum of Passions in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum and the Architects’ Chapel, on the Spanish television programme La aventura del saber.

CLAVOARDIENDO MAGAZINE

The artist from Madrid Javier Viver exhibits ‘Museum of Passions’, in two spaces in Madrid, at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, and at the Chapel of the Architects, of the Royal Congregation of Architects at the Church of San Sebastián. The sculpture, like a six-metre-long ‘Lot’s Wife’, and the photograph taken from her photobooks are used to intervene in both spaces. The exhibition has the collaboration of Gonzalo Golpe and Lupe de la Vallina.

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“I thought it was appropriate to consider what we should do about the past so that it does not become a cage that does not allow us to move forward.”

The photographer and sculptor Javier Viver presents an ambitious double project that dialogues with the collection of the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, putting ink on human passions

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“Cum grano salis” is the title of a season of immersive music that is part of the exhibition project ” Museum of Passions” by visual artist Javier Viver. Although this exhibition has its main venue in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid (where it can be visited from the 5th of February to the 4th of May), it is in the second venue of the project, the Architects’ Chapel, where this cycle of concerts will be held (which will take place between the 13th of February and the 4th of May). Under the dome designed by the architect Ventura Rodríguez, whose remains rest in the crypt of this chapel in the historic Church of San Sebastián – located at number 39, Calle de Atocha – the musicians Fernando Monedero – together with the Taizé choir – will perform (“Nacimiento”, 13 February), Menhir (“La meditación del agua”, March 7th), Luis Hernáiz (“Levitación”, March 21st), Lucas Bolaño (“Latido”, April 4th), Alberto Bernal (“Disolución”, April 18th), and again Fernando Monedero (May 2nd), this time without the physical presence of the choir, but with their voices previously recorded. The worship space, without abandoning its dimension as a space for reflection, thus also becomes an exhibition space and a space for the search for the unspeakable.

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RNE. HOY EMPIEZA TODO CON MARTA ECHEVERRÍA

In today’s program we talked to José Miguel Parra, author of The Great Pyramid, what a rip-off. A book edited by Laetoli that dismantles the myths and false conspiracies that surround the world of Egyptology.

Also, our colleague Lola Lara went to IFEMA on Saturday to see Zahi Hawass, one of the most renowned and media-rich Egyptologists in the world.

In addition, Jorge Barriuso dedicated today’s Barriupedia to José Luis Cuerda. The renowned Albacete film director, scriptwriter and producer who has died at the age of 72.

Finally, Rosa Pérez takes us to the Lázaro Galdiano Museum. We connect with her to talk with Javier Viver about his exhibition called Museum of Passions.

Between one thing and another, songs and some verses that today are by Wislawa Szymborska and Mario Benedetti.

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RTVE NEWS

The artist from Madrid, Javier Viver, proposes a reinterpretation of the Museo Lázaro Galdiano through the greatest human passions that can be seen from 5 February to 3 May at the museum. A gallery developed by relating photographs of the Parisian psychiatric hospital of the Salpêtrière with the works of the Lazarus Collection.

The main piece in this exhibition is Lot’s Wife, a six-metre high sculpture of stone salt inspired by the biblical character of Edit, which has been turned into a salt statue by looking back.

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RNE. LAS MAÑANAS DE RNE CON ÍÑIGO ALFONSO

The photographer and sculptor Javier Viver goes into the so-called Architects’ Chapel of the Church of San Sebastian and the Lazaro Galdiano Museum, both in Madrid, with his work “Museum of Passions”. A proposal by Íñigo Picabea.

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Cum Grano Salis. Season of immersive music
Architects’ Chapel. Church of San Sebastian.
Atocha Street, 39

March 7 – 20:30 h: The Water Meditation. Menhir
March 21 – 20:30 h: Levitation. Luis Hernáiz
April 4th – 20:30 h: Heartbeat. Lucas Bolaño
April 18th – 20:30 h: Dissolution. Alberto Bernal

End of cycle with:
May 2 – 8:30 p.m.: Rebirth. Fernando Monedero with the recorded voices of the Taizé Choir.

Artistic Director: Jose Delgado Perignan.
Technical director: Fernando Monedero.

MUSEUM OF PASSIONS
By the artist Javier Viver from Madrid, in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum (5 February – 4 May) and in the Architects’ Chapel of the Church of San Sebastian (13 February – 4 May) is the result of the confluence – on the one hand – of the exhibition programme of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, which invites contemporary artists to dialogue with the masterpieces of the Lázaro Collection, and – for another – of the activity of the Royal Congregation of Architects which proposes a fruitful meeting between the Church and contemporary culture.

ARS MAGAZINE

Javier Viver dialogues with the pieces from the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in his latest exhibition: Museum of Passions.

The Lázaro Galdiano Museum has been collaborating with contemporary artists for a long time. Through the intervention of current creators it manages to bring its collection, which focuses on pieces from before the 20th century, into contact with the present. These interventions often take place in a room of modest dimensions on the first floor of the building. On this occasion, Javier Viver has extended his influence to practically the entire museum.

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DIARIO DE POZUELO

From 5 February, the old Ballroom of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid will host a six-metre high statue of stone salt by the artist Javier Viver, as part of the “Museum of Passions” exhibition.

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EFE

From 5 February, the old Ballroom of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid will host a six-metre high statue of stone salt by the artist Javier Viver, as part of the “Museum of Passions” exhibition.

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ETHERIA MAGAZINE

In this case, the temporary exhibition has to do with offering a new vision of the works of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum: through the photographs of the Parisian psychiatric hospital of the Salpêtrière collected in the book Révélations (National Prize for the best book on Art in 2015), with the common thread of human passions.

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CANAL PATRIMONIO

Javier Viver proposes a reinterpretation of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum with human passions as the guiding thread, relating photographs of the Parisian psychiatric hospital of the Salpêtrière with the works of the Lázaro Collection

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REVISTADEARTE – LOGOPRESS

The artist Javier Viver creates a Museum of Passions, in two spaces in Madrid, in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum and in the Chapel of the Architects, of the Royal Congregation of Architects in the Church of San Sebastián.

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LANDSCAPE STORIE

The Iconography of La Salpêtrière is one of the first photographic archives in the field of clinical psychiatry. The Archive of the Unclassifiable is a new edition of the photographs from the Iconography of La Salpêtrière made by Javier Viver and archived in several modular filing cabinets.

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TERRASADIGITAL.CAT

The cycle “2 + dos = 5” has entered the final stretch with the opening this Saturday of the “Serene Night” exhibition. The winning proposal of Terrassa Comisariado 2019 ends in space two of the Sala Muncunill with the works of Araceli Merino, Javier Viver and Olga Simón.

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Last Saturday 25th of May we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the studio of the artist Javier Viver.

The doors of the artist’s studio were open from 12:00 in the morning until 21:00 in the evening. The artists invited to open the doors were the photographers Lupe de la Vallina and Roberto Villalón Vara.

The 10th anniversary was framed by the public presentation of the artist’s new exhibition project at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum and the Chapel of the Architects of Ventura Rodriguez in the Church of San Sebastian in Calle Atocha. Both for February 2020.

LUR. RESEARCH NETWORK AND VISUAL STUDIES
Carmen Dalmau

March, 2019

Carmen Dalmau’s visual reflection on Javier Viver’s well-known photobook: Révélations. Iconography by the Salpêtrière. Paris 1875-1918.

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ETB NEWS

“In the face of death” is the title of the latest exhibition at the San Telmo Museum in San Sebastian which, from what we have seen today, leaves no one indifferent.
Objects, images, films… make up an exhibition that puts us all on the ropes and invites us to talk, simply to talk about death… something that in this society none of us like to do.
Begoña Zubieta has accompanied a visit and these are the sensations transmitted in a report for the Teleberri of ETB.

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SAN TELMO MUSEUM
13 March – 26 May
Group show
Several pieces of Aurelia Immortal’s project of Javier Viver travel from the University of Navarra Museum to San Telmo Museum in San Sebastian

It’s not easy to talk about death. But we do want to know how we have represented it and what rituals we have surrounded it with. We want to understand why we sometimes approach it with anguish and fear, but at other times we approach it via festivities and fantasies. We want to know how different religious traditions have proposed transcending death and also how science fights against it and even tries to defeat it. We want to promote reflection and to understand the meaning of the different approaches to enrich our own viewpoint. That’s why it’s not easy to talk about death.

Let’s talk about death…

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NORTE DE CASTILLA, Angelica Tanarro

December 11, 2018

Javier Viver exhibits his project Aurelia Immortal at Javier Silva until 17 December

The path from the laboratory to the artist’s workshop and back has been travelled countless times throughout history. The name of Leonardo da Vinci may soon come to mind when it comes to the relationship between science and art, but both aspects of human creativity have been successfully brought together in virtually every age of mankind. Now he does so in the work of Javier Viver (Madrid, 1971), which is being exhibited for the first time at the Javier Silva Gallery. Viver is a sculptor, photographer, designer and editor of photobooks. His doctoral work was an investigation at the PLAT (Picto-Lumínica-Audio-Táctil) laboratory on the work of filmmaker José Val del Omar, entitled ‘Laboratorio Val del Omar’, which, in addition to being published by Cameo in the form of a documentary, earned him a commission from the Reina Sofía Museum to install the PLAT laboratory in its rooms with Javier Ortiz Echagüe, during the ‘Desbordamiento Val del Omar’ exhibition.

ABC CULTURAL, Carlos Delgado Butler

Myths and beliefs. The transcendent in today’s art. The Eagle Room. Madrid

Curator: Francisco Carpio

Many ancestral stories are still present in our environment. Vulgarized or readjusted, myths are also part of the media culture, essentially narrative. A validity that lies in its capacity to offer an explanation of the reality different from those of philosophy and science. The present quotation in Sala El Águila goes deeper into how the myths of the past can conform a useful structure to understand the present.

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Photo by Miguel Ángel Santos

Javier Silva Gallery. “Aurelia Inmortal”, Until December 17th

Is the human being something more than a frame made up of bones, muscles, ligaments, cells or chemical processes? What would become of him if he were deprived of a certain sense of spirituality, if the day came when he did not have to consider existence as a finite process? These are just a few questions that should be asked by anyone who comes to the Javier Silva Gallery (Calle Renedo, 8) these days to contemplate Aurelia inmortal, the work presented by Javier Viver (Madrid, 1971) until 17 December.

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ARTETERRITORY.NET

November 9, 2018

With his project ‘Aurelia immortal’, Javier Viver (Madrid, 1971) now reflects once again on the longed-for and eager search for this immortality based on the observation of a variety of jellyfish, the aurelia aurita, which possesses the unimaginable capacity to regenerate ad infinitum, as demonstrated by recent scientific research carried out in China, collected in an article by marine biologist Jinru He, and published in 2015.

THE WINDOW OF ART
Until December 17th

Immortality has always been an undeniable presence in all cultural, spiritual, scientific, artistic and vital manifestations of human beings. From Titus to Dracula, from Plato to Faust, from the gods to God, it has never ceased to draw a spiral, without end?

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Javier Viver’s Photobook, “Aurelia Immortal” selected for the International FELIFA Award, 2018

FELIFA is a meeting of photographers, publishers, artists, designers and public, dedicated to promote the formation and editorial production, and to encourage the diffusion and circulation of photography books.

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UNSEEN
Issue nº 5
Joshua Chuang

October, 2018

In this year edition of Unseen Amsterdam compelling archival intervententions are the basis of a spectrum of recent Works, inlcuding Javier Viver´s ruminative Archive of the Unclassifiable Project. Here , Viver recontextualised a selection of images from the many thousands of clinical documents compiled more tan a century ago for La Salpêtrière hospital, under the direction of Jean-Martin Charcot – the founder of modern neurology.

BEIS MAGAZINE
Inma Beneditto

29/10/2018

There is something disturbing and painful in madness. There is madness in Art, and there is also madness in Science. But the way to approach it is very different depending on which eye you look at.
If Science tries to enclose, rehabilitate and eradicate madness in man, considering it a disease, Art observes it, stripped of prejudices, and delves into its inherence to reveal the beauty of its condition. There is also beauty in madness.

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UIMP NEWS

Santander – The Photobook Model Workshop directed by the photographer and author of photobooks Javier Viver has come to an end. During this course, organized by the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP), they have worked on all the processes involved in editing and printing a book and as a result, they have created some photobook models.

DIARIO VASCO, Asier Leza

June, 2018

Javier Viver presents an artistic project on the Aurelia aurita jellyfish at the Aquarium and reflects on the immortality of human beings
“It is the reverse of life, utopia; universal panacea. Immortality is the only antidote capable of immunizing man from one of the most powerful poisons: death. The struggle against the end of existence goes back to the origins of humanity. Will it be eternal?

The sculptor, photographer and designer Javier Viver opened the doors of the San Sebastian Aquarium yesterday to present his exhibition ‘Aurelia Inmortal’, which portrays the amazing life cycle of the Aurelia aurita jellyfish, the only being capable of defeating death. The project is made up of 27 photographs of the “transhuman” species, four sculptures, three drawings and a photo-book, produced by Viver, in which he tells the fictitious story of the immortal society, set in 2046″.

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(Español) La exposición Aurelia Immortal que tuvo lugar en el Museo de la Universidad de Navarra en el 2017 itinera a la sala T , sala de exposición,  del Aquarium de la ciudad de San Sebastian. La Muestra estará expuesta desde el día 21 de Junio, fecha de inauguración hasta Agosto del mismo año.

HOY ES ARTE

The ENAIRE Foundation’s awards are on display at the Cervantes until August 26, presenting at the headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes Evolucionarios, an exhibition consisting of 31 photographs of the winning artists of the three awards that the Foundation has granted in 2018.

The exhibition includes a selection of works by Javier Vallhonrat, awarded for his career; the works of the three finalists -Juan Millás, María Primo and Eduardo Nave-; of the seven selected -Juan Adrio, Alfonso Batalla, Pablo Couso, Antonio Guerra, Rojo Saché, Llorenç Ugas (special mention of PHotoEspaña) and Raúl Urbina-, and of the three beneficiaries of the Just Mad residences: Gema Rupérez, Ana Linhares and Javier Viver.

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MADRID DIARIO

June, 2018

The ENAIRE Foundation is showing the exhibition ‘Evolutionaries’, which was awarded the Photography Prize by the foundation itself, at the Cervantes Institute in Madrid from June 15 to August 26, as part of PHotoEspaña.

In line with this commitment to photographic work, in 2018 Fundación ENAIRE wanted to take another step forward by creating two new awards in this artistic category: the Trajectory Award, in recognition of an entire career devoted to photography, which in its first edition was awarded to Javier Vallhonrat, and the Residence Award, which contributes to the promotion of new creators in their formative years, in this case, Gema Rupérez, Javier Viver and Ana Linhares.

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EL CULTURAL. Nieves Acedo

PHotoEspaña 2018, Archive of the Unclassifiable

“It is worth seeing the exhibition display that Cámara Oscura makes of Javier Viver’s work, developing the proposal of his photobook Révélations. Iconographie de la Salpêtrière. Paris 1875-1918, prize for the best art book of 2015, which revisits the photographic archive of this psychiatric hospital”

In its twenty years of existence, the PHotoEspaña festival, which in its day took over from the Primavera Fotogràfica de Barcelona (according to the model established in the nineteen-seventies by the Arles Meetings), has served to give this medium a charter in the Spanish cultural sphere. Today it is no longer possible to make a segment apart from a technique that in fact floods everything and is the key to the constitution of the public and private imaginary. Now that its main mission has been fulfilled, PHotoEspaña’s role has shrunk. The festival is now limited to being the brand that covers the exhibition season during the difficult summer months. And it does not cease to make sense to opt for photography for this purpose, since to its popularity, which can be translated into visits, we can add the relative ease and low cost of exhibiting it compared to other media.

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Under the title of “The Archive of the Unclassifiable” the author shows a selection of photographs from the “Iconographie de La Salpêtrière” filed in a modular filing cabinet, and the reconstruction of a number of body castings. Likewise, he takes over the methods employed at the psychiatric hospital of La Salpêtrière in Paris in order to document their case reports. Thus Viver takes his proposal of the “Révélations” book to the exhibition space of the gallery. His book was published by the RM publishing company and sold out a few months after being released, having been awarded the National Prize for the Best Art Book by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 2016, and also the ArtsLibris Award.
Some of the last available copies of the book will be on sale at the exhibition venue.

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(Español) Inauguración: 14 de Junio 2018, a las 19:00 h
Instituto Cervantes de Madrid
Calle Alcalá, 49
28014 Madrid

Artistas:
Ana Linhares
Gema Ruipérez
Javier Viver

The Best Photography Book of the Year in PHotoESPAÑA 2018 has already chosen 57 publications. The selection will be exhibited at the Biblioteca Nacional de España from 6 June to 23 September 2018. The exhibition will also include the 20 maquettes that are the finalists for the Book Dummy Award 2017, organised by La Fábrica and Photo London, and 10 of the latest editions by La Fábrica Publisher, which will not contend for the Award.

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(Español) UIMP

Dirección
Javier Viver
Artista, fotógrafo y autor de fotolibros

Secretaría
Gonzalo Hernández Melguizo
La Troupe

Descripción de la actividad

El trabajo que se realizará parte de los archivos fotográficos que cada alumno traiga y tiene por objetivo la realización de una primera maqueta de libro. Se trabajará desde la idea original de cada alumno, la selección y secuenciación de imágenes, el diseño y maquetación, la elección de los papeles, la pre-impresión e impresión de imágenes y su encuadernación.

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INSCRIPCIONES

CLAVOARDIENDO

The Enaire Foundation Residence Award, which grants a scholarship to three artists who exhibit their work at the ninth edition of the fair and whose field of creation is photography, has selected Ana Linhares, from the Kubik gallery, Gema Rupérez, from gallery A del Arte and Javier Viver, represented by gallery Marisa Marimón. In addition, the jury has decided to highlight the work of Laura Salguero, from La Gran, with a special mention.

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(Español) INFOPUNTO

Dentro del Otoño Fotográfico, la galería Marisa Marimón presenta el proyecto ‘Aurelia Inmortal’ de Javier Viver, basado en un descubrimiento científico que le sirve para plantear una narración que oscila entre la documentación científica y la ficción. En diciembre de 2015, el estudiante chino de biología marina He Jinru publicó en la revista ‘Plos One’ la sorprendente propiedad de la medusa Aurelia, capaz de alcanzar la inmortalidad biológica. Según se hacía eco el National Geographic, una vez que Aurelia inmortal expira, desarrolla la capacidad prodigiosa de regenerar sus células hasta alcanzar la etapa juvenil, como si de un Ave Fénix se tratara.

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EL CORREO, Silvia Osorio

The Baracaldo monument hosts a new and peculiar photographic exhibition by the artist from Madrid Javier Viver with the help of the Baffest Festival
The artist has made a personal vision of the photographic archive of the psychiatric hospital, La Salpêtrière in Paris.

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Objetivo Bizkaia is a Tele7 magazine with interviews and reports presented by Susana Porras.

The artist Javier Viver has taken his work “Revelations” to the Munoa Palace in Barakaldo: a photo book in which he reinterprets the photo archive of the La Salpetriere psychiatric hospital in Paris, photos taken at the end of the 19th century. Viver has installed the photographs on the walls of the palace and around the garden that surrounds this enigmatic enclave… The exhibition is part of the “Baffest” festival organized by the Barakaldo City Council.
Begoña Zubieta has been there and this is the report broadcast on ETB’s Teleberri.

ABC Cultural, Paco Carpio

A simple – or not so simple – jellyfish serves photographer Javier Viver to reflect on immortality from Navarra

Immortality has always been an undeniable presence in all cultural, spiritual, scientific, artistic and vital manifestations of the human being. From Titus to Dracula, from Plato to Faust, from the gods to God, it has never ceased to draw a spiral, without end?
Paco Carpio

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CLAVOARDIENDO, Roberto Villalón Vara

Javier Viver is exhibiting his project ‘Aurelia Immortal’ until October in the Museum of the University of Navarra. Yesterday, he presented the photobook that is the result of his research on this jellyfish that was able to “resurrect” after its death. A photobook that follows in the wake of ‘Révélations’, which was named the best art book of the year by the Ministry of Culture.

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(Español) TRAMA EDITORIALES

Presentación de Aurelia Immortal, segundo fotolibro de Javier Viver
Martes 30 de mayo a las 20h
Con la participación del autor junto a Valentín Vallhonrat Ghezzi, Rafael Levenfeld Ortiz y Miguel Cereceda.
Lugar: Blank Paper; C/Nao 4, 3º 28004, Madrid

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With a Vía Crucis piece by Mateo Maté, a photo mural by David Jiménez and Javier Viver, 14 stained glass windows by Alejandro Marote and 1 sculpture statue by Viver, the vessels designed by Miguel Ángel Serrano Domenech y Juan Mazzuchelli, this chapel is part of the Center Saint Mary of the Peace, by the Hospitable Order of Saint John of God, in Madrid, Spain

GABRIELA CENDOYA

Here is the new and long-awaited publication by Javier Viver, after Révélations. Javier brings us both a book and an exhibition, inaugurated on April 26 at the Museum of the University of Navarra, which also publishes the book.

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UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA MUSEUM

Javier Viver reflects on the possibilities of immortality through a variety of jellyfish that have the capacity to regenerate themselves without limits.

DIARIO NORTE DE NAVARRA

The artist Javier Viver has installed an exhibition at the University of Navarra Museum with 45 unpublished pieces in which he reflects on art, science, nature and ethics, based on the observation of a type of jellyfish that self-regenerate and never die.

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EVERY DAY A PHOTOGRAPHER / PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE NETWORK

“If I can, every day a new photographer, every day a new source of inspiration”

Javier Viver is a Spanish sculptor, photographer, designer and photobook publisher (born in 1971 in Madrid) whose work proposes a debate between imagery and iconoclasm as means of appearance of the invisible.

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MADRIZ, Irene Calvo

Javier Viver: “There is a relationship between the processes of madness and those of creation”

Javier Viver (Madrid, 1971) is a multidisciplinary artist who has published “Révélations, iconographie de la Salpetrière. Paris 1875-1918” (MRI), a photobook where images from one of the first psychiatric photographic archives are displayed in a narrative way. With “Révélations” Viver has won the prize for the best art book, awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.
Irene Calvo

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FOTO COLECTANIA

Presentation of “Révélations” by Javier Viver by RM and Foto Colectania

The “Iconographie de La Salpêtrière” is one of the first photographic archives in the field of clinical psychiatry.

Directed by Jean-Martin Charcot and sponsored by the French state, it involved an effort to catalogue the unclassifiable by means of new photographic-documentary techniques. The marginal, that which did not fit into the rational logic of the modern project, was dissected in La Salpêtrière. It was measured, documented and classified in a systematic way. But in this operation, the use of photography led to the incorporation of the spectacle and with it a whole web of complicities between the patients and their photographers. La Salpêtrière’s show became a theatre of variety in the Tuesday sessions, before a crowded representation of the cultural and scientific elites, by means of the induction by hypnosis of contortions, epileptic seizures and hysteria attacks, the recording and exhibition of cabinets of biological curiosities and rarities, phenomena and monsters.

DINAMO VISUAL

Meeting with Javier Viver. Presentation of the book “Révélations” at the Blank Paper School
Talk with Horacio Fernández and Gonzalo Golpe

BLANK PAPER

RÉVÉLATIONS. Meeting with Javier Viver Thursday 26th May at 8pm Calle nao, 4, 3rd floor, Madrid Javier Viver will tell us live all the details of the project “Révélations. Iconographie de La Salpêtrière. Paris 1875-1918” published by RM in 2015 and recently awarded the first prize for the best book published in the Art section by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

CLAVOARDIENDO

Javier Viver’s ‘RÉVÉLATIONS’, the recent launch of the Mexican publishing house RM, has just received the prize for the Best Art Book published in 2015 by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

The book is a particular compilation, edition and reading of the photographic archive of the Parisian hospital Salpêtrière. The work has sought new associations and interpretation plans of an iconographic archive that goes beyond the simple exhibition of clinical cases.

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(Español) El próximo domingo, la localidad vizcaína inaugurará una muestra fotográfica en la que se muestra parte del archivo fotográfico de un hospital psiquiátrico de París. Abierta hasta el 19 de noviembre.
Por Begoña Zubieta

EL NUEVO HERALD, Carlos A. Aguilera

“From my point of view, the work must breathe open to the multiple resonances it may arouse. The explanations are later. Perhaps we are in a special moment of maturation of the photobook as an artistic medium. This implies that the reader should learn to read the images in a sequence. Understanding that the appearance of the text must be essential and not accidental”.

To speak of La Salpêtrière, the famous hospital in the 13th arrondissement in Paris, where Charcot, the father of modern neurology, developed a large part of his work (and where Esquirol, Freud and Vulpian, among others, passed through), is to speak of a classic. For that reason, and because his most recent publication: a fabulous catalogue with images of the hospital’s patients has just been published by RM publishing house, we meet the Spanish artist and researcher Javier Viver (Madrid 1971), who, in addition to this book, has already completed a couple of exhibitions with the faces, looks and gestures that the hospital’s doctors and photographers have been archiving for years.

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Paris Photo 2015, RM, Booth E11
Grand Palais, Paris
Published by Rm

(Español) PHOTOBOOK CLUB MADRID

Queremos terminar el año 2015 con una sesión especial, un encuentro con Javier Viver para comentar su libro Révélations: Iconographie de La Salpétrière, para lo cual os proponemos como tema el delirio. El encuentro tendrá un formato en dos partes: en primer lugar comentaremos entre todos nuestras impresiones del libro. En un segundo momento comentaremos los libros delirantes que queráis traer y compartir con nosotros.

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FIEBRE PHOTOBOOK FESTIVAL 2015
From 10 to 13, December 2015
Casa del Lector, Matadero, Madrid
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ARS MAGAZINE

Interview with the artist from Madrid who, in his latest work, takes as his starting point the Iconography of La Salpêtrière, one of the first photographic archives in the field of clinical psychiatry.

Based on clinical analyses of psychological illnesses in a Paris hospital, directed by Jean-Martin Charcot, it involved an effort to catalogue the unclassifiable by means of new photographic-documentary techniques. The marginal, that which did not fit into the rational logic of the modern project, was subjected to research at La Salpêtrière. It was measured, documented and classified in a systematic way.

Ana Robledano Soldevilla

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New York, NY – The Clemente is pleased to announce the upcoming fall 2015 exhibition, “Closed Paradise”, featuring works by José Val del Omar, Lili Chin and Javier Viver. This project is made possible through the support of Spain Culture New York and The Consulate General of Spain, with additional support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Val del Omar Archive.

(Español) Artist: Badlands Unlimited, Orit Ben-Shitrit, Cai Guoqiang, Chen Tianzhuo, Chen Shaoxiong, Heman Chong+Marcus Yee, Deyi Studio, Double Fly Art Center, Christoph Draeger, Rainer Ganahl, Kevin B. Lee, Liao Gouhe, Dieter Meier, Aernout Mik, Gianni Motti, RAQs Media Collective, Hito Steyerl, Javier Viver, Heidi Voet, Wang Sishun, Xu Zhen Produced by MadeIn, O Zhang, Zhao Yao

Opening: 2015.03.29, 3pm – 5pm
Duration: 2015.03.29-2015.05.24
Address: BANK 1/F, 59 Xianggang Lu, Shanghai, China

(Español) Val del Omar 
La mecamística del cine

Duración: 30 de enero a 12 de abril
Comisario: Cristina Cámara Bello
Autor(es): Val del Omar

(Español) FACES & TRACES – a tribute to freedom, creativity and vision
The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai
October 31st, 2014 – January 31st, 2015
To celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of The Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist Residency.

[EN] 22 February 2014
12:00pm – 8:00pm
The Swatch Art Center
23 East Nanjing Road (Bund 19)
Shanghai 200002 Tel: (21) 23298500
Assistant Curator: GT

Javier Viver has been invited to Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency Program, Shanghai, in order to develop a project title ”The portable studio” during 2013/14

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C./ Doña Berenguela 7, Local, MADRID. Metro Puerta del Ángel (L6)
Studios & post-studios: works by Antoni Muntadas, Daniel Silvo, Domènec, Jaime de la Jara y Marlon de Azambuja, Archivo Val del Omar y J. Mekas. The Mekas and Val del Omar´s home movies compose an experimental installation curated by Javier Ortiz-Echagüe and Javier Viver.

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(Español) 6º EDICIÓN / 2013 Encuentros de fotografía.
Días: 8 y 9 mayo

9 de Mayo – 20.30h PHOTOVJ SPEECH 3#
RÉVÉLATIONS. Iconographie Mystique de la Salpêtrière Por Javier Viver

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(Español) Eduardo Delgado Orusco, arquitecto, y Javier Viver, artista visual, transformarán el domo gigante instalado en los Jardines del Descubrimiento.

This project is a Daniel Silvo’s initiative within the framework of his artistic residency in Impakt Works, sponsored by the Impakt Foundation (Utrecht) and in collaboration with Galería Isabel Hurley, that has hosted it in its international tour.

The exhibition is composed by the following artists: Elena Alonso, Marlon de Azambuja, Karmelo Bermejo, Daniel Cerrejón, Cristina Garrido, Mateo Maté, Navid Nuur, Clara Pallí, Wilfredo Prieto and Javier Viver.

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(Español) El documental traza un recorrido a través de la producción valdelomariana, desde su labor como documentalista en las Misiones Pedagógicas hasta sus experiencias en el campo del cine-poesía o el cine expandido y procesual. En ella se ofrecen fuentes inéditas sobre los insólitos procesos de creación desarrollados por Val del Omar, el origen místico de su producción cinematográfica.

(Español) El próximo domingo, 9 de septiembre, los Cinemas Lumier Reforma de México D.F. proyectarán las piezas audiovisuales Narciso 1 y Narciso 2 de Javier Viver, dentro de las Jornadas de Reapropiación 2012.

(Español) Javier Viver prepara la instalación de una gran esfera ocular como reconstrucción del Auto Sacramental Invisible (1949-52), una pieza sonora de Val del Omar (Granada 1904 – Madrid 1982), pensada para ser emitida por 14 altavoces independientes dispuestos de forma esférica.

(Español) La instalación que realizaron en el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Javier Ortíz Echagüe y Javier Viver del último laboratorio de José Val del Omar, llamado PLAT (Picto Lumínica Audio Tactil), dentro de la exposición Desbordamiento Val del Omar (5 de octubre – 28 de febrero de 2011), se traslada permanentemente a la Colección del Museo Reina Sofía a partir del lunes 21 de mayo de 2012.

(Español) DANIEL SILVO, Proyectos Curatoriales

Luis Gordillo, José Díaz, Ugo Martínez Lázaro, PAN: Alberto Chinchón & Miguel Palancares, Abdul Vas, Santiago Idáñez y Javier Viver.
La exposición CANÍBALES Y CARROÑEROS pretende mostrar un tipo de obra visceral, en la que el artista deja trabajar al inconsciente y de la que brotan imágenes totalmente libres, espontáneas, sin filtro, y que muestran un lado salvaje en el artista.

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Location One presents video installations by Carlos Amorales & Javier Viver
For the month of March, Location One will devote its galleries to two exceptional videos by Mexican artist Carlos Amorales and Spanish artist Javier Viver.
Opening Reception: Wednesday March 8th, 2006, 6-8pm
Open through: April 1st, 2006 (Tue – Sat, 12 – 6 pm)

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The Auto Sacramental: The Message of Granada is an idea-project-work just sketched in some audios and that exceeds the vision to generate, through 12 channels a story full of ungraspable nooks and crannies and phonemes thrown to the ground to bounce aimlessly. If “the sound is similar to ashes, you see it, it has a shape, but when you try to grab it it melts, it vanishes, it flies”, the Auto Sacramental: El Mensaje de Granada de Val del Omar is a very big handful of ashes that in this capsule we have tried, without much success, to rearrange and, above all, to divulge.

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The artist from Madrid Javier Viver exhibits ‘Museum of Passions’, in two spaces in Madrid, at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, and at the Chapel of the Architects, of the Royal Congregation of Architects at the Church of San Sebastián. The sculpture, like a six-metre-long ‘Lot’s Wife’, and the photograph taken from her photobooks are used to intervene in both spaces. The exhibition has the collaboration of Gonzalo Golpe and Lupe de la Vallina.

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Javier Viver dialogues with the pieces from the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in his latest exhibition: Museum of Passions.

The Lázaro Galdiano Museum has been collaborating with contemporary artists for a long time. Through the intervention of current creators it manages to bring its collection, which focuses on pieces from before the 20th century, into contact with the present. These interventions often take place in a room of modest dimensions on the first floor of the building. On this occasion, Javier Viver has extended his influence to practically the entire museum.

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LUR. RESEARCH NETWORK AND VISUAL STUDIES
Carmen Dalmau

March, 2019

Carmen Dalmau’s visual reflection on Javier Viver’s well-known photobook: Révélations. Iconography by the Salpêtrière. Paris 1875-1918.

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NORTE DE CASTILLA, Angelica Tanarro

December 11, 2018

Javier Viver exhibits his project Aurelia Immortal at Javier Silva until 17 December

The path from the laboratory to the artist’s workshop and back has been travelled countless times throughout history. The name of Leonardo da Vinci may soon come to mind when it comes to the relationship between science and art, but both aspects of human creativity have been successfully brought together in virtually every age of mankind. Now he does so in the work of Javier Viver (Madrid, 1971), which is being exhibited for the first time at the Javier Silva Gallery. Viver is a sculptor, photographer, designer and editor of photobooks. His doctoral work was an investigation at the PLAT (Picto-Lumínica-Audio-Táctil) laboratory on the work of filmmaker José Val del Omar, entitled ‘Laboratorio Val del Omar’, which, in addition to being published by Cameo in the form of a documentary, earned him a commission from the Reina Sofía Museum to install the PLAT laboratory in its rooms with Javier Ortiz Echagüe, during the ‘Desbordamiento Val del Omar’ exhibition.

ABC CULTURAL, Carlos Delgado Butler

Myths and beliefs. The transcendent in today’s art. The Eagle Room. Madrid

Curator: Francisco Carpio

Many ancestral stories are still present in our environment. Vulgarized or readjusted, myths are also part of the media culture, essentially narrative. A validity that lies in its capacity to offer an explanation of the reality different from those of philosophy and science. The present quotation in Sala El Águila goes deeper into how the myths of the past can conform a useful structure to understand the present.

UNSEEN
Issue nº 5
Joshua Chuang

October, 2018

In this year edition of Unseen Amsterdam compelling archival intervententions are the basis of a spectrum of recent Works, inlcuding Javier Viver´s ruminative Archive of the Unclassifiable Project. Here , Viver recontextualised a selection of images from the many thousands of clinical documents compiled more tan a century ago for La Salpêtrière hospital, under the direction of Jean-Martin Charcot – the founder of modern neurology.

BEIS MAGAZINE
Inma Beneditto

29/10/2018

There is something disturbing and painful in madness. There is madness in Art, and there is also madness in Science. But the way to approach it is very different depending on which eye you look at.
If Science tries to enclose, rehabilitate and eradicate madness in man, considering it a disease, Art observes it, stripped of prejudices, and delves into its inherence to reveal the beauty of its condition. There is also beauty in madness.

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EL CULTURAL. Nieves Acedo

PHotoEspaña 2018, Archive of the Unclassifiable

“It is worth seeing the exhibition display that Cámara Oscura makes of Javier Viver’s work, developing the proposal of his photobook Révélations. Iconographie de la Salpêtrière. Paris 1875-1918, prize for the best art book of 2015, which revisits the photographic archive of this psychiatric hospital”

In its twenty years of existence, the PHotoEspaña festival, which in its day took over from the Primavera Fotogràfica de Barcelona (according to the model established in the nineteen-seventies by the Arles Meetings), has served to give this medium a charter in the Spanish cultural sphere. Today it is no longer possible to make a segment apart from a technique that in fact floods everything and is the key to the constitution of the public and private imaginary. Now that its main mission has been fulfilled, PHotoEspaña’s role has shrunk. The festival is now limited to being the brand that covers the exhibition season during the difficult summer months. And it does not cease to make sense to opt for photography for this purpose, since to its popularity, which can be translated into visits, we can add the relative ease and low cost of exhibiting it compared to other media.

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ABC Cultural, Paco Carpio

A simple – or not so simple – jellyfish serves photographer Javier Viver to reflect on immortality from Navarra

Immortality has always been an undeniable presence in all cultural, spiritual, scientific, artistic and vital manifestations of the human being. From Titus to Dracula, from Plato to Faust, from the gods to God, it has never ceased to draw a spiral, without end?
Paco Carpio

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GABRIELA CENDOYA

Here is the new and long-awaited publication by Javier Viver, after Révélations. Javier brings us both a book and an exhibition, inaugurated on April 26 at the Museum of the University of Navarra, which also publishes the book.

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“I thought it was appropriate to consider what we should do about the past so that it does not become a cage that does not allow us to move forward.”

The photographer and sculptor Javier Viver presents an ambitious double project that dialogues with the collection of the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, putting ink on human passions

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CLAVOARDIENDO, Roberto Villalón Vara

Javier Viver is exhibiting his project ‘Aurelia Immortal’ until October in the Museum of the University of Navarra. Yesterday, he presented the photobook that is the result of his research on this jellyfish that was able to “resurrect” after its death. A photobook that follows in the wake of ‘Révélations’, which was named the best art book of the year by the Ministry of Culture.

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EVERY DAY A PHOTOGRAPHER / PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE NETWORK

“If I can, every day a new photographer, every day a new source of inspiration”

Javier Viver is a Spanish sculptor, photographer, designer and photobook publisher (born in 1971 in Madrid) whose work proposes a debate between imagery and iconoclasm as means of appearance of the invisible.

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MADRIZ, Irene Calvo

Javier Viver: “There is a relationship between the processes of madness and those of creation”

Javier Viver (Madrid, 1971) is a multidisciplinary artist who has published “Révélations, iconographie de la Salpetrière. Paris 1875-1918” (MRI), a photobook where images from one of the first psychiatric photographic archives are displayed in a narrative way. With “Révélations” Viver has won the prize for the best art book, awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.
Irene Calvo

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EL NUEVO HERALD, Carlos A. Aguilera

“From my point of view, the work must breathe open to the multiple resonances it may arouse. The explanations are later. Perhaps we are in a special moment of maturation of the photobook as an artistic medium. This implies that the reader should learn to read the images in a sequence. Understanding that the appearance of the text must be essential and not accidental”.

To speak of La Salpêtrière, the famous hospital in the 13th arrondissement in Paris, where Charcot, the father of modern neurology, developed a large part of his work (and where Esquirol, Freud and Vulpian, among others, passed through), is to speak of a classic. For that reason, and because his most recent publication: a fabulous catalogue with images of the hospital’s patients has just been published by RM publishing house, we meet the Spanish artist and researcher Javier Viver (Madrid 1971), who, in addition to this book, has already completed a couple of exhibitions with the faces, looks and gestures that the hospital’s doctors and photographers have been archiving for years.

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ARS MAGAZINE

Interview with the artist from Madrid who, in his latest work, takes as his starting point the Iconography of La Salpêtrière, one of the first photographic archives in the field of clinical psychiatry.

Based on clinical analyses of psychological illnesses in a Paris hospital, directed by Jean-Martin Charcot, it involved an effort to catalogue the unclassifiable by means of new photographic-documentary techniques. The marginal, that which did not fit into the rational logic of the modern project, was subjected to research at La Salpêtrière. It was measured, documented and classified in a systematic way.

Ana Robledano Soldevilla

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The Auto Sacramental: The Message of Granada is an idea-project-work just sketched in some audios and that exceeds the vision to generate, through 12 channels a story full of ungraspable nooks and crannies and phonemes thrown to the ground to bounce aimlessly. If “the sound is similar to ashes, you see it, it has a shape, but when you try to grab it it melts, it vanishes, it flies”, the Auto Sacramental: El Mensaje de Granada de Val del Omar is a very big handful of ashes that in this capsule we have tried, without much success, to rearrange and, above all, to divulge.

Cum Grano Salis. Season of immersive music
Architects’ Chapel. Church of San Sebastian.
Atocha Street, 39

March 7 – 20:30 h: The Water Meditation. Menhir
March 21 – 20:30 h: Levitation. Luis Hernáiz
April 4th – 20:30 h: Heartbeat. Lucas Bolaño
April 18th – 20:30 h: Dissolution. Alberto Bernal

End of cycle with:
May 2 – 8:30 p.m.: Rebirth. Fernando Monedero with the recorded voices of the Taizé Choir.

Artistic Director: Jose Delgado Perignan.
Technical director: Fernando Monedero.

MUSEUM OF PASSIONS
By the artist Javier Viver from Madrid, in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum (5 February – 4 May) and in the Architects’ Chapel of the Church of San Sebastian (13 February – 4 May) is the result of the confluence – on the one hand – of the exhibition programme of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, which invites contemporary artists to dialogue with the masterpieces of the Lázaro Collection, and – for another – of the activity of the Royal Congregation of Architects which proposes a fruitful meeting between the Church and contemporary culture.

Last Saturday 25th of May we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the studio of the artist Javier Viver.

The doors of the artist’s studio were open from 12:00 in the morning until 21:00 in the evening. The artists invited to open the doors were the photographers Lupe de la Vallina and Roberto Villalón Vara.

The 10th anniversary was framed by the public presentation of the artist’s new exhibition project at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum and the Chapel of the Architects of Ventura Rodriguez in the Church of San Sebastian in Calle Atocha. Both for February 2020.

SAN TELMO MUSEUM
13 March – 26 May
Group show
Several pieces of Aurelia Immortal’s project of Javier Viver travel from the University of Navarra Museum to San Telmo Museum in San Sebastian

It’s not easy to talk about death. But we do want to know how we have represented it and what rituals we have surrounded it with. We want to understand why we sometimes approach it with anguish and fear, but at other times we approach it via festivities and fantasies. We want to know how different religious traditions have proposed transcending death and also how science fights against it and even tries to defeat it. We want to promote reflection and to understand the meaning of the different approaches to enrich our own viewpoint. That’s why it’s not easy to talk about death.

Let’s talk about death…

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Javier Viver’s Photobook, “Aurelia Immortal” selected for the International FELIFA Award, 2018

FELIFA is a meeting of photographers, publishers, artists, designers and public, dedicated to promote the formation and editorial production, and to encourage the diffusion and circulation of photography books.

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UIMP NEWS

Santander – The Photobook Model Workshop directed by the photographer and author of photobooks Javier Viver has come to an end. During this course, organized by the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP), they have worked on all the processes involved in editing and printing a book and as a result, they have created some photobook models.

(Español) La exposición Aurelia Immortal que tuvo lugar en el Museo de la Universidad de Navarra en el 2017 itinera a la sala T , sala de exposición,  del Aquarium de la ciudad de San Sebastian. La Muestra estará expuesta desde el día 21 de Junio, fecha de inauguración hasta Agosto del mismo año.

EL CULTURAL. Nieves Acedo

PHotoEspaña 2018, Archive of the Unclassifiable

“It is worth seeing the exhibition display that Cámara Oscura makes of Javier Viver’s work, developing the proposal of his photobook Révélations. Iconographie de la Salpêtrière. Paris 1875-1918, prize for the best art book of 2015, which revisits the photographic archive of this psychiatric hospital”

In its twenty years of existence, the PHotoEspaña festival, which in its day took over from the Primavera Fotogràfica de Barcelona (according to the model established in the nineteen-seventies by the Arles Meetings), has served to give this medium a charter in the Spanish cultural sphere. Today it is no longer possible to make a segment apart from a technique that in fact floods everything and is the key to the constitution of the public and private imaginary. Now that its main mission has been fulfilled, PHotoEspaña’s role has shrunk. The festival is now limited to being the brand that covers the exhibition season during the difficult summer months. And it does not cease to make sense to opt for photography for this purpose, since to its popularity, which can be translated into visits, we can add the relative ease and low cost of exhibiting it compared to other media.

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Under the title of “The Archive of the Unclassifiable” the author shows a selection of photographs from the “Iconographie de La Salpêtrière” filed in a modular filing cabinet, and the reconstruction of a number of body castings. Likewise, he takes over the methods employed at the psychiatric hospital of La Salpêtrière in Paris in order to document their case reports. Thus Viver takes his proposal of the “Révélations” book to the exhibition space of the gallery. His book was published by the RM publishing company and sold out a few months after being released, having been awarded the National Prize for the Best Art Book by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 2016, and also the ArtsLibris Award.
Some of the last available copies of the book will be on sale at the exhibition venue.

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(Español) Inauguración: 14 de Junio 2018, a las 19:00 h
Instituto Cervantes de Madrid
Calle Alcalá, 49
28014 Madrid

Artistas:
Ana Linhares
Gema Ruipérez
Javier Viver

The Best Photography Book of the Year in PHotoESPAÑA 2018 has already chosen 57 publications. The selection will be exhibited at the Biblioteca Nacional de España from 6 June to 23 September 2018. The exhibition will also include the 20 maquettes that are the finalists for the Book Dummy Award 2017, organised by La Fábrica and Photo London, and 10 of the latest editions by La Fábrica Publisher, which will not contend for the Award.

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(Español) UIMP

Dirección
Javier Viver
Artista, fotógrafo y autor de fotolibros

Secretaría
Gonzalo Hernández Melguizo
La Troupe

Descripción de la actividad

El trabajo que se realizará parte de los archivos fotográficos que cada alumno traiga y tiene por objetivo la realización de una primera maqueta de libro. Se trabajará desde la idea original de cada alumno, la selección y secuenciación de imágenes, el diseño y maquetación, la elección de los papeles, la pre-impresión e impresión de imágenes y su encuadernación.

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INSCRIPCIONES

(Español) INFOPUNTO

Dentro del Otoño Fotográfico, la galería Marisa Marimón presenta el proyecto ‘Aurelia Inmortal’ de Javier Viver, basado en un descubrimiento científico que le sirve para plantear una narración que oscila entre la documentación científica y la ficción. En diciembre de 2015, el estudiante chino de biología marina He Jinru publicó en la revista ‘Plos One’ la sorprendente propiedad de la medusa Aurelia, capaz de alcanzar la inmortalidad biológica. Según se hacía eco el National Geographic, una vez que Aurelia inmortal expira, desarrolla la capacidad prodigiosa de regenerar sus células hasta alcanzar la etapa juvenil, como si de un Ave Fénix se tratara.

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(Español) TRAMA EDITORIALES

Presentación de Aurelia Immortal, segundo fotolibro de Javier Viver
Martes 30 de mayo a las 20h
Con la participación del autor junto a Valentín Vallhonrat Ghezzi, Rafael Levenfeld Ortiz y Miguel Cereceda.
Lugar: Blank Paper; C/Nao 4, 3º 28004, Madrid

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With a Vía Crucis piece by Mateo Maté, a photo mural by David Jiménez and Javier Viver, 14 stained glass windows by Alejandro Marote and 1 sculpture statue by Viver, the vessels designed by Miguel Ángel Serrano Domenech y Juan Mazzuchelli, this chapel is part of the Center Saint Mary of the Peace, by the Hospitable Order of Saint John of God, in Madrid, Spain

DINAMO VISUAL

Meeting with Javier Viver. Presentation of the book “Révélations” at the Blank Paper School
Talk with Horacio Fernández and Gonzalo Golpe

Paris Photo 2015, RM, Booth E11
Grand Palais, Paris
Published by Rm

(Español) PHOTOBOOK CLUB MADRID

Queremos terminar el año 2015 con una sesión especial, un encuentro con Javier Viver para comentar su libro Révélations: Iconographie de La Salpétrière, para lo cual os proponemos como tema el delirio. El encuentro tendrá un formato en dos partes: en primer lugar comentaremos entre todos nuestras impresiones del libro. En un segundo momento comentaremos los libros delirantes que queráis traer y compartir con nosotros.

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FIEBRE PHOTOBOOK FESTIVAL 2015
From 10 to 13, December 2015
Casa del Lector, Matadero, Madrid
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New York, NY – The Clemente is pleased to announce the upcoming fall 2015 exhibition, “Closed Paradise”, featuring works by José Val del Omar, Lili Chin and Javier Viver. This project is made possible through the support of Spain Culture New York and The Consulate General of Spain, with additional support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Val del Omar Archive.

(Español) Artist: Badlands Unlimited, Orit Ben-Shitrit, Cai Guoqiang, Chen Tianzhuo, Chen Shaoxiong, Heman Chong+Marcus Yee, Deyi Studio, Double Fly Art Center, Christoph Draeger, Rainer Ganahl, Kevin B. Lee, Liao Gouhe, Dieter Meier, Aernout Mik, Gianni Motti, RAQs Media Collective, Hito Steyerl, Javier Viver, Heidi Voet, Wang Sishun, Xu Zhen Produced by MadeIn, O Zhang, Zhao Yao

Opening: 2015.03.29, 3pm – 5pm
Duration: 2015.03.29-2015.05.24
Address: BANK 1/F, 59 Xianggang Lu, Shanghai, China

(Español) Val del Omar 
La mecamística del cine

Duración: 30 de enero a 12 de abril
Comisario: Cristina Cámara Bello
Autor(es): Val del Omar

(Español) FACES & TRACES – a tribute to freedom, creativity and vision
The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai
October 31st, 2014 – January 31st, 2015
To celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of The Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist Residency.

[EN] 22 February 2014
12:00pm – 8:00pm
The Swatch Art Center
23 East Nanjing Road (Bund 19)
Shanghai 200002 Tel: (21) 23298500
Assistant Curator: GT

Javier Viver has been invited to Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency Program, Shanghai, in order to develop a project title ”The portable studio” during 2013/14

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(Español) 6º EDICIÓN / 2013 Encuentros de fotografía.
Días: 8 y 9 mayo

9 de Mayo – 20.30h PHOTOVJ SPEECH 3#
RÉVÉLATIONS. Iconographie Mystique de la Salpêtrière Por Javier Viver

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(Español) Eduardo Delgado Orusco, arquitecto, y Javier Viver, artista visual, transformarán el domo gigante instalado en los Jardines del Descubrimiento.

This project is a Daniel Silvo’s initiative within the framework of his artistic residency in Impakt Works, sponsored by the Impakt Foundation (Utrecht) and in collaboration with Galería Isabel Hurley, that has hosted it in its international tour.

The exhibition is composed by the following artists: Elena Alonso, Marlon de Azambuja, Karmelo Bermejo, Daniel Cerrejón, Cristina Garrido, Mateo Maté, Navid Nuur, Clara Pallí, Wilfredo Prieto and Javier Viver.

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(Español) El documental traza un recorrido a través de la producción valdelomariana, desde su labor como documentalista en las Misiones Pedagógicas hasta sus experiencias en el campo del cine-poesía o el cine expandido y procesual. En ella se ofrecen fuentes inéditas sobre los insólitos procesos de creación desarrollados por Val del Omar, el origen místico de su producción cinematográfica.

(Español) El próximo domingo, 9 de septiembre, los Cinemas Lumier Reforma de México D.F. proyectarán las piezas audiovisuales Narciso 1 y Narciso 2 de Javier Viver, dentro de las Jornadas de Reapropiación 2012.

(Español) Javier Viver prepara la instalación de una gran esfera ocular como reconstrucción del Auto Sacramental Invisible (1949-52), una pieza sonora de Val del Omar (Granada 1904 – Madrid 1982), pensada para ser emitida por 14 altavoces independientes dispuestos de forma esférica.

(Español) La instalación que realizaron en el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Javier Ortíz Echagüe y Javier Viver del último laboratorio de José Val del Omar, llamado PLAT (Picto Lumínica Audio Tactil), dentro de la exposición Desbordamiento Val del Omar (5 de octubre – 28 de febrero de 2011), se traslada permanentemente a la Colección del Museo Reina Sofía a partir del lunes 21 de mayo de 2012.

Location One presents video installations by Carlos Amorales & Javier Viver
For the month of March, Location One will devote its galleries to two exceptional videos by Mexican artist Carlos Amorales and Spanish artist Javier Viver.
Opening Reception: Wednesday March 8th, 2006, 6-8pm
Open through: April 1st, 2006 (Tue – Sat, 12 – 6 pm)

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CLAVOARDIENDO MAGAZINE

The artist from Madrid Javier Viver exhibits ‘Museum of Passions’, in two spaces in Madrid, at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, and at the Chapel of the Architects, of the Royal Congregation of Architects at the Church of San Sebastián. The sculpture, like a six-metre-long ‘Lot’s Wife’, and the photograph taken from her photobooks are used to intervene in both spaces. The exhibition has the collaboration of Gonzalo Golpe and Lupe de la Vallina.

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ARS MAGAZINE

Javier Viver dialogues with the pieces from the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in his latest exhibition: Museum of Passions.

The Lázaro Galdiano Museum has been collaborating with contemporary artists for a long time. Through the intervention of current creators it manages to bring its collection, which focuses on pieces from before the 20th century, into contact with the present. These interventions often take place in a room of modest dimensions on the first floor of the building. On this occasion, Javier Viver has extended his influence to practically the entire museum.

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DIARIO DE POZUELO

From 5 February, the old Ballroom of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid will host a six-metre high statue of stone salt by the artist Javier Viver, as part of the “Museum of Passions” exhibition.

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EFE

From 5 February, the old Ballroom of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid will host a six-metre high statue of stone salt by the artist Javier Viver, as part of the “Museum of Passions” exhibition.

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ETHERIA MAGAZINE

In this case, the temporary exhibition has to do with offering a new vision of the works of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum: through the photographs of the Parisian psychiatric hospital of the Salpêtrière collected in the book Révélations (National Prize for the best book on Art in 2015), with the common thread of human passions.

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CANAL PATRIMONIO

Javier Viver proposes a reinterpretation of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum with human passions as the guiding thread, relating photographs of the Parisian psychiatric hospital of the Salpêtrière with the works of the Lázaro Collection

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REVISTADEARTE – LOGOPRESS

The artist Javier Viver creates a Museum of Passions, in two spaces in Madrid, in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum and in the Chapel of the Architects, of the Royal Congregation of Architects in the Church of San Sebastián.

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LANDSCAPE STORIE

The Iconography of La Salpêtrière is one of the first photographic archives in the field of clinical psychiatry. The Archive of the Unclassifiable is a new edition of the photographs from the Iconography of La Salpêtrière made by Javier Viver and archived in several modular filing cabinets.

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NORTE DE CASTILLA, Angelica Tanarro

December 11, 2018

Javier Viver exhibits his project Aurelia Immortal at Javier Silva until 17 December

The path from the laboratory to the artist’s workshop and back has been travelled countless times throughout history. The name of Leonardo da Vinci may soon come to mind when it comes to the relationship between science and art, but both aspects of human creativity have been successfully brought together in virtually every age of mankind. Now he does so in the work of Javier Viver (Madrid, 1971), which is being exhibited for the first time at the Javier Silva Gallery. Viver is a sculptor, photographer, designer and editor of photobooks. His doctoral work was an investigation at the PLAT (Picto-Lumínica-Audio-Táctil) laboratory on the work of filmmaker José Val del Omar, entitled ‘Laboratorio Val del Omar’, which, in addition to being published by Cameo in the form of a documentary, earned him a commission from the Reina Sofía Museum to install the PLAT laboratory in its rooms with Javier Ortiz Echagüe, during the ‘Desbordamiento Val del Omar’ exhibition.

ABC CULTURAL, Carlos Delgado Butler

Myths and beliefs. The transcendent in today’s art. The Eagle Room. Madrid

Curator: Francisco Carpio

Many ancestral stories are still present in our environment. Vulgarized or readjusted, myths are also part of the media culture, essentially narrative. A validity that lies in its capacity to offer an explanation of the reality different from those of philosophy and science. The present quotation in Sala El Águila goes deeper into how the myths of the past can conform a useful structure to understand the present.

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Photo by Miguel Ángel Santos

Javier Silva Gallery. “Aurelia Inmortal”, Until December 17th

Is the human being something more than a frame made up of bones, muscles, ligaments, cells or chemical processes? What would become of him if he were deprived of a certain sense of spirituality, if the day came when he did not have to consider existence as a finite process? These are just a few questions that should be asked by anyone who comes to the Javier Silva Gallery (Calle Renedo, 8) these days to contemplate Aurelia inmortal, the work presented by Javier Viver (Madrid, 1971) until 17 December.

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ARTETERRITORY.NET

November 9, 2018

With his project ‘Aurelia immortal’, Javier Viver (Madrid, 1971) now reflects once again on the longed-for and eager search for this immortality based on the observation of a variety of jellyfish, the aurelia aurita, which possesses the unimaginable capacity to regenerate ad infinitum, as demonstrated by recent scientific research carried out in China, collected in an article by marine biologist Jinru He, and published in 2015.

THE WINDOW OF ART
Until December 17th

Immortality has always been an undeniable presence in all cultural, spiritual, scientific, artistic and vital manifestations of human beings. From Titus to Dracula, from Plato to Faust, from the gods to God, it has never ceased to draw a spiral, without end?

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Javier Viver’s Photobook, “Aurelia Immortal” selected for the International FELIFA Award, 2018

FELIFA is a meeting of photographers, publishers, artists, designers and public, dedicated to promote the formation and editorial production, and to encourage the diffusion and circulation of photography books.

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UNSEEN
Issue nº 5
Joshua Chuang

October, 2018

In this year edition of Unseen Amsterdam compelling archival intervententions are the basis of a spectrum of recent Works, inlcuding Javier Viver´s ruminative Archive of the Unclassifiable Project. Here , Viver recontextualised a selection of images from the many thousands of clinical documents compiled more tan a century ago for La Salpêtrière hospital, under the direction of Jean-Martin Charcot – the founder of modern neurology.

BEIS MAGAZINE
Inma Beneditto

29/10/2018

There is something disturbing and painful in madness. There is madness in Art, and there is also madness in Science. But the way to approach it is very different depending on which eye you look at.
If Science tries to enclose, rehabilitate and eradicate madness in man, considering it a disease, Art observes it, stripped of prejudices, and delves into its inherence to reveal the beauty of its condition. There is also beauty in madness.

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DIARIO VASCO, Asier Leza

June, 2018

Javier Viver presents an artistic project on the Aurelia aurita jellyfish at the Aquarium and reflects on the immortality of human beings
“It is the reverse of life, utopia; universal panacea. Immortality is the only antidote capable of immunizing man from one of the most powerful poisons: death. The struggle against the end of existence goes back to the origins of humanity. Will it be eternal?

The sculptor, photographer and designer Javier Viver opened the doors of the San Sebastian Aquarium yesterday to present his exhibition ‘Aurelia Inmortal’, which portrays the amazing life cycle of the Aurelia aurita jellyfish, the only being capable of defeating death. The project is made up of 27 photographs of the “transhuman” species, four sculptures, three drawings and a photo-book, produced by Viver, in which he tells the fictitious story of the immortal society, set in 2046″.

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HOY ES ARTE

The ENAIRE Foundation’s awards are on display at the Cervantes until August 26, presenting at the headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes Evolucionarios, an exhibition consisting of 31 photographs of the winning artists of the three awards that the Foundation has granted in 2018.

The exhibition includes a selection of works by Javier Vallhonrat, awarded for his career; the works of the three finalists -Juan Millás, María Primo and Eduardo Nave-; of the seven selected -Juan Adrio, Alfonso Batalla, Pablo Couso, Antonio Guerra, Rojo Saché, Llorenç Ugas (special mention of PHotoEspaña) and Raúl Urbina-, and of the three beneficiaries of the Just Mad residences: Gema Rupérez, Ana Linhares and Javier Viver.

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MADRID DIARIO

June, 2018

The ENAIRE Foundation is showing the exhibition ‘Evolutionaries’, which was awarded the Photography Prize by the foundation itself, at the Cervantes Institute in Madrid from June 15 to August 26, as part of PHotoEspaña.

In line with this commitment to photographic work, in 2018 Fundación ENAIRE wanted to take another step forward by creating two new awards in this artistic category: the Trajectory Award, in recognition of an entire career devoted to photography, which in its first edition was awarded to Javier Vallhonrat, and the Residence Award, which contributes to the promotion of new creators in their formative years, in this case, Gema Rupérez, Javier Viver and Ana Linhares.

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The Best Photography Book of the Year in PHotoESPAÑA 2018 has already chosen 57 publications. The selection will be exhibited at the Biblioteca Nacional de España from 6 June to 23 September 2018. The exhibition will also include the 20 maquettes that are the finalists for the Book Dummy Award 2017, organised by La Fábrica and Photo London, and 10 of the latest editions by La Fábrica Publisher, which will not contend for the Award.

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CLAVOARDIENDO

The Enaire Foundation Residence Award, which grants a scholarship to three artists who exhibit their work at the ninth edition of the fair and whose field of creation is photography, has selected Ana Linhares, from the Kubik gallery, Gema Rupérez, from gallery A del Arte and Javier Viver, represented by gallery Marisa Marimón. In addition, the jury has decided to highlight the work of Laura Salguero, from La Gran, with a special mention.

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EL CORREO, Silvia Osorio

The Baracaldo monument hosts a new and peculiar photographic exhibition by the artist from Madrid Javier Viver with the help of the Baffest Festival
The artist has made a personal vision of the photographic archive of the psychiatric hospital, La Salpêtrière in Paris.

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ABC Cultural, Paco Carpio

A simple – or not so simple – jellyfish serves photographer Javier Viver to reflect on immortality from Navarra

Immortality has always been an undeniable presence in all cultural, spiritual, scientific, artistic and vital manifestations of the human being. From Titus to Dracula, from Plato to Faust, from the gods to God, it has never ceased to draw a spiral, without end?
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DIARIO NORTE DE NAVARRA

The artist Javier Viver has installed an exhibition at the University of Navarra Museum with 45 unpublished pieces in which he reflects on art, science, nature and ethics, based on the observation of a type of jellyfish that self-regenerate and never die.

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CLAVOARDIENDO

Javier Viver’s ‘RÉVÉLATIONS’, the recent launch of the Mexican publishing house RM, has just received the prize for the Best Art Book published in 2015 by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

The book is a particular compilation, edition and reading of the photographic archive of the Parisian hospital Salpêtrière. The work has sought new associations and interpretation plans of an iconographic archive that goes beyond the simple exhibition of clinical cases.

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Report on the Museum of Passions in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum and the Architects’ Chapel, on the Spanish television programme La aventura del saber.

“Cum grano salis” is the title of a season of immersive music that is part of the exhibition project ” Museum of Passions” by visual artist Javier Viver. Although this exhibition has its main venue in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid (where it can be visited from the 5th of February to the 4th of May), it is in the second venue of the project, the Architects’ Chapel, where this cycle of concerts will be held (which will take place between the 13th of February and the 4th of May). Under the dome designed by the architect Ventura Rodríguez, whose remains rest in the crypt of this chapel in the historic Church of San Sebastián – located at number 39, Calle de Atocha – the musicians Fernando Monedero – together with the Taizé choir – will perform (“Nacimiento”, 13 February), Menhir (“La meditación del agua”, March 7th), Luis Hernáiz (“Levitación”, March 21st), Lucas Bolaño (“Latido”, April 4th), Alberto Bernal (“Disolución”, April 18th), and again Fernando Monedero (May 2nd), this time without the physical presence of the choir, but with their voices previously recorded. The worship space, without abandoning its dimension as a space for reflection, thus also becomes an exhibition space and a space for the search for the unspeakable.

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RNE. HOY EMPIEZA TODO CON MARTA ECHEVERRÍA

In today’s program we talked to José Miguel Parra, author of The Great Pyramid, what a rip-off. A book edited by Laetoli that dismantles the myths and false conspiracies that surround the world of Egyptology.

Also, our colleague Lola Lara went to IFEMA on Saturday to see Zahi Hawass, one of the most renowned and media-rich Egyptologists in the world.

In addition, Jorge Barriuso dedicated today’s Barriupedia to José Luis Cuerda. The renowned Albacete film director, scriptwriter and producer who has died at the age of 72.

Finally, Rosa Pérez takes us to the Lázaro Galdiano Museum. We connect with her to talk with Javier Viver about his exhibition called Museum of Passions.

Between one thing and another, songs and some verses that today are by Wislawa Szymborska and Mario Benedetti.

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RTVE NEWS

The artist from Madrid, Javier Viver, proposes a reinterpretation of the Museo Lázaro Galdiano through the greatest human passions that can be seen from 5 February to 3 May at the museum. A gallery developed by relating photographs of the Parisian psychiatric hospital of the Salpêtrière with the works of the Lazarus Collection.

The main piece in this exhibition is Lot’s Wife, a six-metre high sculpture of stone salt inspired by the biblical character of Edit, which has been turned into a salt statue by looking back.

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RNE. LAS MAÑANAS DE RNE CON ÍÑIGO ALFONSO

The photographer and sculptor Javier Viver goes into the so-called Architects’ Chapel of the Church of San Sebastian and the Lazaro Galdiano Museum, both in Madrid, with his work “Museum of Passions”. A proposal by Íñigo Picabea.

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TERRASADIGITAL.CAT

The cycle “2 + dos = 5” has entered the final stretch with the opening this Saturday of the “Serene Night” exhibition. The winning proposal of Terrassa Comisariado 2019 ends in space two of the Sala Muncunill with the works of Araceli Merino, Javier Viver and Olga Simón.

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ETB NEWS

“In the face of death” is the title of the latest exhibition at the San Telmo Museum in San Sebastian which, from what we have seen today, leaves no one indifferent.
Objects, images, films… make up an exhibition that puts us all on the ropes and invites us to talk, simply to talk about death… something that in this society none of us like to do.
Begoña Zubieta has accompanied a visit and these are the sensations transmitted in a report for the Teleberri of ETB.

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Objetivo Bizkaia is a Tele7 magazine with interviews and reports presented by Susana Porras.

The artist Javier Viver has taken his work “Revelations” to the Munoa Palace in Barakaldo: a photo book in which he reinterprets the photo archive of the La Salpetriere psychiatric hospital in Paris, photos taken at the end of the 19th century. Viver has installed the photographs on the walls of the palace and around the garden that surrounds this enigmatic enclave… The exhibition is part of the “Baffest” festival organized by the Barakaldo City Council.
Begoña Zubieta has been there and this is the report broadcast on ETB’s Teleberri.

UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA MUSEUM

Javier Viver reflects on the possibilities of immortality through a variety of jellyfish that have the capacity to regenerate themselves without limits.

FOTO COLECTANIA

Presentation of “Révélations” by Javier Viver by RM and Foto Colectania

The “Iconographie de La Salpêtrière” is one of the first photographic archives in the field of clinical psychiatry.

Directed by Jean-Martin Charcot and sponsored by the French state, it involved an effort to catalogue the unclassifiable by means of new photographic-documentary techniques. The marginal, that which did not fit into the rational logic of the modern project, was dissected in La Salpêtrière. It was measured, documented and classified in a systematic way. But in this operation, the use of photography led to the incorporation of the spectacle and with it a whole web of complicities between the patients and their photographers. La Salpêtrière’s show became a theatre of variety in the Tuesday sessions, before a crowded representation of the cultural and scientific elites, by means of the induction by hypnosis of contortions, epileptic seizures and hysteria attacks, the recording and exhibition of cabinets of biological curiosities and rarities, phenomena and monsters.

DINAMO VISUAL

Meeting with Javier Viver. Presentation of the book “Révélations” at the Blank Paper School
Talk with Horacio Fernández and Gonzalo Golpe

BLANK PAPER

RÉVÉLATIONS. Meeting with Javier Viver Thursday 26th May at 8pm Calle nao, 4, 3rd floor, Madrid Javier Viver will tell us live all the details of the project “Révélations. Iconographie de La Salpêtrière. Paris 1875-1918” published by RM in 2015 and recently awarded the first prize for the best book published in the Art section by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.