Familia Guerra (Family War)
Pere Noguera
Bombon Projects, Barcelona
- Title
- Familia Guerra (Family War)
- Gallery
- Bombon Projects, Barcelona
- Year
- 2007
- Duration
- 1 h 49 min 45 s
- Format & Technical
Single-channel video loop made with found footage
Familia Guerra (War Family) is a video piece from 2007 that Pere Noguera made with a Central European original archive from the first half of the XX century that he found in the Empordà. The artist puts in dialogue recordings of the Second World War made by a soldier with domestic footage of the same person in his family environment.
Bucolic family scenes from amateur films are contrasted with documentary-style war scenes.
The filmic recycling of these “found” materials allows the creation of a visual diptych that expresses the contradictions, instability and intrinsic weaknesses of humans’ well-being.
Stills
Pere Noguera (1941, La Bisbal de Empordà, Girona) His work has been shown in Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA, Barcelona, 2021-2005) Bólit Art Center (Girona, 2021), Vilacasas Foundation (Barcelona, 2020), Exile Museum (La Jonquera, 2012), Antoni Tàpies Foundation (Barcelona, 2011), José Guerrero Museum (Granada, 2005), National Museum Art Center Reina Sofía (MNCARS, Madrid, 2005), Santa Mónica Art Center ( Barcelona, 2001), Girona Museum of Art (Girona, 1999), Palau de la Virreina (Barcelona, 1996), Staatliche Kunsthalle (Baden Baden, 1992), Chateaux de Servieres (Marsella, 1990), Les Allumés, CDRC (Nantes, 1990), Rafinerie de Plan K (Bruselas, 1988), Le Consortium (Dijon, 1986) Centre d’Art Pompidou (París, 1982), Metrónom (1988 – 83 – 81, Barcelona) Joan Miró Foundation (1983, Barcelona) y Sala Vinçon (Barcelona, 1975) among others.
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Bombon Projects
- Address
- Trafalgar 53, local B, 08010, Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- (+34) 696696016
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- Website
- bombonprojects.com
Bombon is a contemporary art gallery in Barcelona since February 2017 that also acts in other contexts such as international fairs and off-site projects. The gallery functions as an ecosystem in which its agents -the artists, the gallery team and the collaborators, among others- interact and coexist, prioritizing the common survival. Bombon is a context of trust that gives rise to intuitions, risks, sensitivities and empathies that are conveyed through contemporary artistic languages.