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Europa Press - Tuesday, February 26, 16.20VALENCIA, 26 (EUROPA PRESS) - The Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) open Today the exhibition 'Ingestum-fluids' in which the director and video artist Bigas Luna makes the museum into a creative laboratory in which to experience, through the basic human fluids such as blood, water and milk, a return to the land and the origins, said today at a press conference the author.

Attending a dinner in which Bigas Luna will serve as host, to measure the rate at which blood leaves the heart and assist the process of crystallization of water are some of the proposals that visitors can enjoy the show, which can be seen in different areas of the IVAM until 4 May.

The selection of this unique tour, sponsored by the Group Roig, begins in the courtyard of the museum, where it has installed a large "grill" altar "on which this evening for the opening of the exhibition will roast" potatoes and sausages Valencia green, accompanied by a bio also came, "said the director. Furthermore, on the facade of the three videos will be screened 'Courbet Sources', representing the origin of life.

already in the hall, has enabled the table 'Ingestum' and shown the video 'necklace of flies. " Beside, there is a facility dedicated to water and Japanese artist Masaru Emoto in which defends the thesis that This item has a conscience. In this piece, you can see the water crystals that characterize the work of the operator of Japan and is projected onto the body of the spectators.
The exhibition schedule continues with a section devoted to the blood. Thus, in the Gallery 8 has installed a maze called 'The Milky Way "which offers videos made by Bigas Luna to Career on breastfeeding and lactation. 'Allatatrice', 'sucker Molar', 'Virgin Lactatio' and 'Source Lumière' are some of the pieces selected. The tour culminates with the three-screen video installation 'Gaudir Nouvelle' in which the architect Jean Nouvel exercises for the first time as an actor.

The project is conceived as a 'work in progress "or" seed project ", in the words of Bigas Luna, it is not a finished work. One example is that the statement contains a table that is responsible for gradually saw people linked to the author or the project as Jean Nouvel "and Javier Bardem, who have to propose to come because now everyone is calling me" he joked.

The catalog published for the exhibition aims to be also a book of ideas leading to new thinking on the subject and the director moved his intention to shoot a movie soon to be called 'De Leonardo Da Vinci with Ferran Adrià through Gordon Matta-Clark ', which analyzes "how these three artists have approached the world of gastronomy."

RETURN TO EARTH

Bigas Luna said that at this point in his career round the earth is something very important that my life has improved. " "It's like Yin and Yan because I'm still a big supporter and fan of new technologies," he said. Therefore, considered that the desire to return to the land was already "intuitively" in one of his films as "Ham, ham 'or' Golden Balls'.

The curator, the Uruguayan critic Angel Kalenberg, Bigas Luna framed across a "stock" of filmmakers who have made inroads into the world of art, as Hichtcock or Peter Greenaway, but stressed that the Catalan "offers a new element, such as the ecology."

For its part, the director of the IVAM, Consuelo Ciscar, Bigas Luna said that "nature is the place of enjoyment, the area where the man, in humble contemplation, develops its capacity feeling ".

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