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animAMusice was created in 1999 by the Spanish writer and photographer Pilar Irala and the Spanish composer Gonzalo Arruego. It was born with the aim of exploring the different connections existing among diverse creative processes and with the conviction that music was an ideal space of dialogue and mutual enrichment. After some years designing projects, performances, exhibitions, concerts and events that merged Gonzalo’s music with diverse visual arts -such as painting, sculpture, graving, video or photography, in 2002 animAMusicae began to explore the blend of Gonzalo’s music with Pilar’s intimate world of oneiric and delicate images and words. The complicity and symbiosis between them and the public and critic’s acclaim were such that, since then, they decided to focus their creativity on projects, concerts, performances, events and photographic and video-art exhibitions combining both.
Among the many different animAMusicae’s concerts, exhibitions and events we can highlight the following:
-2001, closing concert of the 1st European Meetings with Young Art, organized by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the Government of Aragón.
-2002, triple concert at Zaragoza’s Auditorium. The expectation generated by the animAMusicae’s performance was such that the prestigious art journal RevistArt devoted an article to it in its “Must see” section.
-2002, animAMusicae was commissioned by the European University Institute (European Commission) to offer a concert in Florence, Italy, celebrating Europe’s Day, the end of the Spanish Presidency of the EU and the 25th anniversary of the European University Institute.
-2003, Concert at CAI’s Auditorium in Zaragoza with great critic and public success and media cover; among other media, Gonzalo and Pilar were interviewed in the famous Onda Cero’s radio program “Protagonistas”.
-2004, Pilar is one of the invited artists to the International Festival of the Contemporary Image –ManifestO- in Toulouse, France, where her work received extraordinary critics.
-2004, animAMusicae is commissioned by the University of Zaragoza to offer a concert celebrating the opening of the University of Zaragoza Summer Courses.
-2005, due to the great success obtained in ManifestO, animAMusicae was commissioned by the MJC Roguet of Toulouse (Fédération Midi-Pyrénées des Maisons des Jeunes et de la Culture, Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports) to open its 2005 concert and exhibition season.
-2005, The Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza and The Fernando el Católico Institution organised a retrospective exhibition of Pilar Irala’s and animAMusicae’s works.
-2006, animAMusicae presented their work in the Contemporary Art Gallery Espacio Kubiko, Madrid, their current Gallery of Art.
-2007, animAMusicae was commissioned by the financial institution Ibercaja to offer a series of concerts and exhibitions in different Spanish cities (Logroño, Zaragoza, Guadalajara and Valencia).
-2007, animAMusicae was selected by the Government of Aragón to participate in the project Arteries of Young Art.
-2007, animAMusicae was invited to participate in Artery07, International Fair of Contemporary Young Art, where they obtained great critic and public success and one of the awards of the Jury.
-2007, animAMusicae was commissioned by the famous Spanish soccer team Real Zaragoza to compose the OST of the Exhibition celebrating Real Zaragoza’s 75th anniversary (a composition for violin and electric violin entitled “12 yards/11 metros”) and to create a photographic work of art celebrating soccer (a mosaic of 6 photographs entitled “Eres…siempre…”) animAmusicae opened the exhibition with a concert and “Eres…siempre…” was chosen by Real Zaragoza as the official image of its 75th anniversary.
-2008, animAMusicae was commissioned to participate in the 1st International Exhibition on Dali’s Dolmen at the Museum of The Royal Spanish Mint, Madrid. Only 100 artist all around the world were invited to participate in this international event.
-2008, animAMusicae presented their last photographic series in the Spanish/Japanese Gallery of Contemporary Art Calvo i Mayayo as part of the cultural activities parallel to the Expo2008, International Exposition in which animAMusicae also participates with the video “One possible end”/“Un final”.
-2008, animAMusicae was one of the invited artists to the VIII International Contemporary Art Festival “Madrid Tentación” (Madrid, 21-26 October) and to the “Juvenalia” Fair (IFEMA, Madrid, 19-28 December).
-2008-2009, animAMusicae is one of the artists participating in the project and exhibition “50x50”, whose aim is to collect funds for UNICEF.
-2009 promises big events. January 28 animAMusicae presented their work in Córdoba at Soliman Company and in March Gonzalo and Pilar were invited to participate in the Festival Equiart. In April they were selected to participate in the International Contemporary Art Festivals BeArt and Arteria09, where they won the second prize. Meanwhile, their work was presented in Italy and, during the month of June and paralelly to PHE09, they exhibited their new photographic work, "Angel's mornings", in Galería Espacio KUBIKO (Madrid) animAMusicae are currently working on their next exhibitions and concerts, specially in Perpignan, where they have been invited to participate in the worldwide known VISA Festival. Their soirée will take place next 9 September...and more news are still coming!
Works of animAmusicae in public and private collections of art (highlights):
Public collections:
-Madrid Museum of Contemporary Art
-MJC Roguet, Toulouse (Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports, France)
-Centro de Estudios Comarcales del Bajo Aragón, Caspe (Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza, Institución Fernando el Católico, España)
-Ayuntamiento de Monzón
Private collections:
-Ford Foundation (New York, USA, ex-director's collection)
-Ibercaja
-Heraldo de Aragón
-Real Zaragoza SAD
-La Scala
-Private and bussiness collections in Spain, France and the USA.
To hire and acquire animAMusicae's works/Contratación y adquisición de obra:
animamusicae@animamusicae.com
To know more about us:
animAMusicae's Page
The Saatchi Gallery - Contemporary art in London
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