Colored
2022 – present
Intervention.
Black and white prints on Hahnemühle paper intervened with acrylic paint.
Dimensions variable.
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This series reflects on the ideological implications of the use of color through my manual intervention in a selection of works from recent Art History.
Conceptual art, from its beginnings in the 1960s, and in its quest to flee from the autonomous artistic object and the work of art as commodity, took the path of dematerialization. Paradoxically, it became photographic documentation and, in this transubstantiation, it lost its color. These silver gelatin prints have been collected in museums around the world, and the black and white aesthetics – supposedly neutral, objective and serious – inevitably merged with the presuppositions of this movement.
My entry into the path of art was through painting, a practice that I put on hold when I moved to London in my formative years, upon discovering the artistic references that make up this series. In it, I propose to retake the brushes through the direct intervention of these images through the subjective process of coloring them.
Press/ Texts:
· Joshua Decter, ‘Being Cristina Garrido’, Cristina Garrido. The Origin of Forms. Ed. Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (2024).
· Fabiola Iza, ‘Critic’s Picks Madrid’, ARTFORUM (2022).
· Víctor Zarza, ‘Maquillar a los conceptuales’, ABC Cultural (2022).
Exhibitions:
· Paintings (solo exhibition). The Goma (Madrid, Spain, 2022-2023).
· [DOSMILVINT-I-U][DOSMILVINT-I-TRES] = 1 encuentro (group exhibition). Cur. M Reme Silvestre. IVAM - Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (Valencia, Spain, 2023).
· Carta blanca a Cabello/ Carceller (group exhibition). Cur. Cabello/ Carceller. Museo Patio Herreriano (Valladolid, Spain, 2023-2024).
Credits:
General installation views and details of the exhibition Cristina Garrido. Paintings [Cristina Garrido. Pinturas], The Goma (Madrid, 2022). Images: Roberto Ruiz.
[Colored] Carole Schneeman, Interior Scroll (2022). 35 x 27,5 cm.
[Colored] Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting (2022). 56 x 65 cm.
[Colored] John Baldessari, Hands Framing New York (2022). 24,7 x 31,3 cm.
[Colored] Bas Jan Ader, I’m too sad to tell you (2022). 33 x 41,3 cm.
[Colored] Yves Klein, Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle (2022). 51 x 61 cm.
[Colored] Mladen Stilinović, Artist at Work (2022). 45 x 54,5 cm.
[Colored] Valie Export, Eros/ion (2022). 29 x 35,6 cm.
[Colored] Fina Miralles, El cuerpo cubierto de paja (2022). 43,3 x 33 cm.
[Colored] Yoko Ono, Cut Piece (2022). 37,5 x 32,5 cm.
[Colored] Jiri Kovanda, XXX – November 19 (2022). 24 x 34,5 cm.
[Colored] Marina Abramović & Ulay, Imponderabilia (2022). 52,5 x 53 cm.
· Joshua Decter, ‘Being Cristina Garrido’, Cristina Garrido. The Origin of Forms. Ed. Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (2024).
· Fabiola Iza, ‘Critic’s Picks Madrid’, ARTFORUM (2022).
· Víctor Zarza, ‘Maquillar a los conceptuales’, ABC Cultural (2022).
Exhibitions:
· Paintings (solo exhibition). The Goma (Madrid, Spain, 2022-2023).
· [DOSMILVINT-I-U][DOSMILVINT-I-TRES] = 1 encuentro (group exhibition). Cur. M Reme Silvestre. IVAM - Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (Valencia, Spain, 2023).
· Carta blanca a Cabello/ Carceller (group exhibition). Cur. Cabello/ Carceller. Museo Patio Herreriano (Valladolid, Spain, 2023-2024).
Credits:
General installation views and details of the exhibition Cristina Garrido. Paintings [Cristina Garrido. Pinturas], The Goma (Madrid, 2022). Images: Roberto Ruiz.
[Colored] Carole Schneeman, Interior Scroll (2022). 35 x 27,5 cm.
[Colored] Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting (2022). 56 x 65 cm.
[Colored] John Baldessari, Hands Framing New York (2022). 24,7 x 31,3 cm.
[Colored] Bas Jan Ader, I’m too sad to tell you (2022). 33 x 41,3 cm.
[Colored] Yves Klein, Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle (2022). 51 x 61 cm.
[Colored] Mladen Stilinović, Artist at Work (2022). 45 x 54,5 cm.
[Colored] Valie Export, Eros/ion (2022). 29 x 35,6 cm.
[Colored] Fina Miralles, El cuerpo cubierto de paja (2022). 43,3 x 33 cm.
[Colored] Yoko Ono, Cut Piece (2022). 37,5 x 32,5 cm.
[Colored] Jiri Kovanda, XXX – November 19 (2022). 24 x 34,5 cm.
[Colored] Marina Abramović & Ulay, Imponderabilia (2022). 52,5 x 53 cm.
