VÍDEO-RÉGIMEN. Coleccionistas en la era audiovisual
Loading video, please wait
- 00:00
- Speakers
- Carles Guerra, Emilio Pi and Helena Fernandino
- Language
- English and Spanish
Art critic and curator Carles Guerra converses with collectors Emilio Pi and Helena Fernandino in the context of the exhibition ‘VÍDEO-RÉGIMEN. Coleccionistas en la era audiovisual‘, that took place at Cercle del Liceu during LOOP Barcelona 2015, and had been previously on show at Museo Lázaro Galdiano | Madrid.
The result is a lively conversation on the paradoxes surrounding video as a medium, its status as a collectible, its distribution and preservation, as well as the much debated role of collectors in video and film production. Holding about 1000 titles (among which are archival pieces, editions and video installations), the Collection Pi Fernandino functions as a magnifying lens on the history and evolution of the medium, while it also positions itself among those “pedagogical collections” to be shared with and enjoyed by people.
Read the full English transcription of the interview here.
Carles Guerra
- Curator, Moderator, Participant, Speaker
Carles Guerra is an artist, art critic and independent curator. He holds a PhD from Universitat de Barcelona. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitat de Barcelona and the Media Studies Department, The New School for Social Research. His most recent profile has been associated with outstanding positions in the field of cultural management, cultural policies and curatorial activities. He has been Director of Primavera Fotogràfica de Catalunya, Director of the Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Chief curator at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA and, from 2015 through 2020, Executive director at Fundació Antoni Tàpies.
On top of a vast number of monographic exhibitions devoted to individual artists such as Ahlam Shibli, Art & Language, Allan Sekula, Susan Meiselas, Harun Farocki, Oriol Vilanova and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, he has curated projects like 1979. A Monument to Radical Instants and Antoni Tàpies. Political Biography.
Last update: 16th November, 2020
Emilio Pi
- Speaker
Emilio Pi is a lawyer and businessman in the communication sector. Together with his wife, Helena Fernandino, they are the founders of the Collection Pi Fernandino that, started in the late 1990s. Now they are mainly focused on video art and digital works, as the future massive transmitters of artistic creation. The works in the collection have been shown at the Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, the Museo Vostell, the Museo Nacional de Brasilia and in several European and Asian capitals, within the programme Vital International Video Art. In 2010, together with the Paul Getty collection (international category), it won the prize sponsored by ARCO Madrid and aimed at private collections.
Helena Fernandino
- Speaker
Helena Fernandino is an expert in Human Resources and Strategic Consulting. Together with her husband, Emilio Pi, they are the founders of the Collection Pi Fernandino that, started in the late 1990s. Now they are mainly focused on video art and digital works, as the future massive transmitters of artistic creation. The works in the collection have been shown at the Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, the Museo Vostell, the Museo Nacional de Brasilia and in several European and Asian capitals, within the programme Vital International Video Art. In 2010, together with the Paul Getty collection (international category), it won the prize sponsored by ARCO Madrid and aimed at private collections.
