Rosa Galindo

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Rosa Galindo (* 1952 Tenerife ) is a Spanish performance and video artist .

life and work

Rosa Galindo has been working with Pedro Garhel in the field of performance and installation since 1977 and as a video artist since 1980 . In 1981 Galindo and Garhel founded the center for experimental video art and performance Espacio "P" in Madrid.

Galindo and Garhel showed the performance Dedicato A La Memoria at documenta 8 in Kassel in 1987 .

“The main theme is memory, reflection, a dedication to the silence of obvious things, to the immediate space that emanates from the outlines of the body, man-woman“ proxémica ”penetrate the space with their circling memories, close and constant , transformed into the present, delimiting an area not only of visual and perceptible, but also of reactive contacts. "

- Rosa Galindo and Pedro Garhel

Modus Vivendi is another well-known performance.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RKD Rosa Galindo accessed on May 22, 2015 (English / Dutch)
  2. ↑ Madrid experimental: crónicas del Espacio P accessed on May 22, 2015 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 296; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
  4. ↑ Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 Pedro Garhel and Rosa Galindo accessed on May 21, 2015 (Dutch)
personal data
SURNAME Galindo, pink
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish performance and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Tenerife