Pongo mi pie desnudo en el umbral Christian García Bello
Pongo mi pie desnudo en el umbral —translated to English as “I put my bare foot on the threshold”— is a project with three layers: a short story written by the artist, the exhibition device itself and a collaboration with the artist María Roja through a specific performance.
Exhibition Pongo mi pie desnudo en el umbral
Artists Christian García Bello
Curator David Barro
Venue Fundación DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
All images Courtesy of the artist. Photography: Roi Alonso
This exhibition is presented as a collection of fragmented and overlapping points of view based on a short story about the travel diaries of Dirse, a woman who made a pilgrimage from Antwerp (Flanders, BE) to A Guarda (Galicia, ES), sometime between the 16th and 17th centuries, and who spent her last days on Mount Santa Trega, looking at the river mouth of the Miño, the natural and watery threshold that separates Galicia from Portugal.
The title —a verse from the galician poet José Ángel Valente— leads us to think of a story that could be ending or beginning, but a story that goes forward by walking, touching and gazing. A spatial narrative about landscape, spirituality, ritualism, architecture and vernacular forms.
Christian García Bello. Pongo mi pie desnudo en el umbral, 2020. Exhibition view. Fundación DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, ESChristian García Bello. Pongo mi pie desnudo en el umbral, 2020. Exhibition view. Fundación DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, ESChristian García Bello. Pongo mi pie desnudo en el umbral, 2020. Exhibition view. Fundación DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, ESChristian García Bello. Who’s turn is it?, 2020. Patinated plaster with beeswax and rosin resin, graphite and oil on wood. 45 x 45 x 3 cmChristian García Bello. It gets stepped on, burns and rises, 2020. Graphite and oil on wood, iron, leather, patinated plaster with beeswax and rosin resin, ground clam shell and brass. 120 x 40 x 40 cmChristian García Bello. Pongo mi pie desnudo en el umbral, 2020. Exhibition view. Fundación DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, ESChristian García Bello. Orient / Occident, 2020. Sherry brandy, hollandaise of wine, graphite and oil on wood, 7 x 7 x 9 cm eachChristian García Bello. Pongo mi pie desnudo en el umbral, 2020. Exhibition view. Fundación DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, ESChristian García Bello. Through, it lengthens, 2020. Iron, patinated plaster with beeswax and rosin resin, ground clam shell, stone, graphite and oil on wood, 215 x 60 x 65 cmChristian García Bello. Que le di a la caza alcance, 2020. Graphite, counted and Sherry brandy on cotton paper and cellulose. 100 x 70 cmChristian García Bello. Penada, 2020. Patinated plaster with beeswax and rosin, graphite and oil on wood and steel, 60 x 30 x 9 cmChristian García Bello. Pongo mi pie desnudo en el umbral, 2020. Exhibition view. Fundación DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, ESChristian García Bello. A gesture from you, a scar, 2020. Salt and rosin lacquer on paper, 21 x 15 cmChristian García Bello. Threshold (What falls), 2017-2020. Graphite on cellulose paper, 100 x 70 cmChristian García Bello. The one who accompanies and the one who submits, 2020. Graphite and oil on wood, iron, 87 x 18 x 3 cmChristian García Bello. Five landscapes (series ‘Las vísperas’), 2020. Mencía wine on cotton and cellulose paper, 10 x 8 cm eachChristian García Bello. Pongo mi pie desnudo en el umbral, 2020. Exhibition view. Fundación DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, ES
