Dolorosa

Here's my last work "Dolorosa" (our Lady of the Sorrows). Carved wood and knitting. 162x45x48cmts. I carved the wood and my wife Quina made the knitting.

My work "Precarious Table Football" will be at Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras, Alicante, Spain until 30th september., as a part of the group show "neg-ocio".

Negocio investigates the function and effectiveness of social critique expressed by alternative games and video games:

In the current context, where our freedoms and our civil rights are being challenged, games can become a powerful tool to subvert the world around us, to test mechanisms, roles, guidelines, utopias or dystopias in a way that escapes conventional ways of expression. This exhibition tries to find new ways of thinking about games, new ways to use games to reflect on the rest of the world. What does it take for a game to become an artistic means and how can art subvert the hierarchies of power?

Featuring Yoko Ono, Brenda Romero, Carlo No, Molleindustria, Ian Bogost & Jane McGonigal, Richard Hofmeier, Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, Rosa Lendinez, Alba Refulgente, Natalia Carminati, Abel Barroso, Joan Priego, Simon Evans & Simon Johnson, Anne-Marie Schleiner, Jason Rohrer, Paco Fernandez & Alejandro Perez, and Ralph Anspach.

Sisyphus

For every step I move forward I go two steps back. It takes a lot of energy to try to emerge in this art world. I sacrificed many things, I voluntarily took precarious jobs for the good of my art and I ended up being a caretaker in a small museum. 

I'm like Sisyphus in the mith, when I think I'm moving up then I get a rejection email and everithing comes down again, but I'm losing energy and spirit to raise again. I started this blog in 2006 and I can't say I have made many progress. The rental of the atelier, tools, materials, etc, that takes a lot of money that I could save...

Today is 23rd of June, in my country we celebrate midsummer with bonfires, I'm really tempted to get all my work together and make a nice bonfire as a final performance and then live an easier and cheaper life, it won't be this year but it won't be long. 

Little Great Dictator

Little Great Dictator, carved wood and paint 66x30x27cmts

Nazareno

This is a life size version of my Nazareno, carved in wood and painted, the figure is 211x106x114cmts, the painting in the back is 200x200cmts

Pilates of Siam

 Pilates of Siam, carved wood and paint, 129x148x57cmts

The Broken toy 2, (Jesus loves you)

The Broken toy 2, (Jesus loves you), wood&paint 45x30x14cmts

Nazareno in progress 3

Polychromy in progress, almost finished, just needs some wax

Nazareno in progress 2

Nazareno in progress 2, building the skirt and working on the backpaint. It's all going to be an installation, I want it to look like the old museums dioramas. I love narrative art, like the old spanish sculpture of the baroque, I want my art to be narrative too

Nazareno in progress

Work in progress: a Big version of my Nazareno-Marilyn, (thanks Rosa Lendinez for the pics of me at work)

Interview

Interview about my work, by Tulika Inez Bahadur at ON ART AND AESTHETICS blog

https://onartandaesthetics.com/2018/01/09/the-contortionist-has-become-the-paradigm-of-the-new-social-precariat-joan-priego/