Bateria de Cenizas. Metaphors of Defence

BUNKER INSTALATION

 

1999

Bateria de Cenizas. Metaphors of Defence, is a historical map where current events are juxtaposed with events of the past, a memory coil where the concept is extrapolated to various events, the idea of defence and attack, going beyond its intrinsic military relationship.

TRYPTIC / SAN JULIAN III

Colour chromogenic print

30 x 40 cm each one

2003

TRYPTIC / SAN JULIAN II

Colour chromogenic print

30 x 40 cm each one

2003

TRYPTIC / SAN JULIAN I

Colour chromogenic print

30 x 40 cm each one

2003

BATTERY CONSTRUCTION I

B & W anonymous photography

10 x 15 cm

Undated

BATTERY CONSTRUCTION II

B & W anonymous photography

10 x 15 cm

Undated

BATTERY- DE ATALAYÓN II

Ink print on dibond from slide

80 x 120 cm

2004

BATTERY- DE ATALAYÓN III

Ink print on dibond from slide

80 x 120 cm

2004

BLACK I

Slideshow

Variable Dimensions

2003

BEYOND

Ink print on dibond from slide

80 x 120 cm

2004

STOP! FIRE

Colour photography

10 x 15 cm

1999

INSTALLATION BUNKER

Red & Black paintings on walls

Sala de Arte joven, Comunidad de Madrid

2003

 

PROHIBIDO FUMAR

Colour photography

10 x 15 cm

1999

SINK THE BOAT I

Ink print on dibond from slide

35 X 200 cm

2004

OBUS CARRIER

Ink print on dibond from slide

100 X 200 cm

2004

INFINITY

Ink print on dibond from slide

120 X 80 cm

2003

ASH BATTERY INSIDE

Colour chromogenic print

80 x 120 cm

2003

GARITA

Ink print on dibond from slide

80 x 120 cm

2004

WHITE SILENCE

Ink print on dibond from slide

80 x 120 cm

2005

HORIZON I

Ink print on dibond from slide 3 Pieces

135 X 200 cm each one (Detail of piece)

2004

HORIZON

Ink print on dibond from slide

135 X 600 cm (3 pieces of 135 x 200 cm each one)

La Panera, Lleida

2004

INSIDE BUNKER

Colour chromogenic print

70 x 100 cm

2003

CHILLERAS (Obus storage)

Ink print on dibond from slide

135 X 800 cm (4 pieces of 135 x 200 cm each one)

2004

WALL SERIES VII

Colour chromogenic print

70 X 100 cm

2003

TRYPTIC WALLS

Colour chromogenic print

70 X 100 cm. ( each one)

2003

BOW

Colour chromogenic print

80 x 120 cm

2003

PORTMAN VIEW

Colour chromogenic print

80 X 120 cm

2003

METAPHORS OF DEFENSE

21 photodrawings of cyanotype and graphite on graph paper

Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile

2007

DETAIL II METAPHORS II

Photodrawing  of cyanotype and graphite on graph paper

DIN-A3

2006-2007

DETAIL METAPHORS II

Photodrawing of cyanotype and graphite on graph paper

DIN-A3 

2006-2007

BATERÍA DE CENIZAS. METÁFORAS DE LA DEFENSA

GREEN BOOK - Mixed media  52 x 34 cm - 2003

 

Batería de Cenizas. Methaphors of Defence

Lisa Le Feuvre


Mediterranean has become a part of everyday life, informed by a belief in a different, perhaps better, place on the opposite side of the sea. This gaze is echoed in Rosell Meseguer´s images that look through the slits of defence buildings along the harbour and coast of Cartagena on the Spanish Peninsula that were last used in combat during the Spanish Civil War but now are abandoned and isolated from transport links providing a panoramic gaze.

Exhibition Curator

The Photographers´Gallery, London GREAT 55, Summer 2004

 

 

The ruins of the memory and the fortification of the subject (some ideas related to Rosell Meseguer)

Fernando Castro Flórez

Traducción: Claudia de la Peña McTigue & Rosell Meseguer


 

“Cain’s house in the Enoch’ steppes is the beginning of the “blockhouse”, built according to protection scales and the needs of the new life, imaginary ruins that hardly sketch some design. Its ground plan is an alegory of the tomb, where sometimes stretches out as a labyrinth and a shelter for life. If chance decides it that way .

Zizek has pointed out that between the antagonisms that represent our time, the antagonism between abstraction which is more and more determinant in our lives, and the storm of pseudoconcrete images could have a key place. If we can understand the abstraction as a progressive self-discovery of the basis of art language, in a process of a particular de-pictorialization, we would also have to understand that in this process we find the core of the modern times. In a chaothic world one of the “exits” can be to get into the crypt or to camouflage oneself, avoid being naked in the open.

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Battery of Cenizas - Defence Methology II 1999-2005

Rosell Meseguer

After the Second World War, during Roosevelt’ s Presidency, the director of the Research and Science Development Office, Vannevar Bush, issued a report titled: Science, the Frontier without End. In this report, Mr. Bush talked about how defence strategies were put into practice in daily life. Vannevar, justified the need of military research to improve social welfare. One of the most outstanding improvements was the invention of the radar and its later use in everyday life.

This new eye, the radar, was able to detect submarines, which were first invented by Isaac Peral (Cartagena – Spain). Submarines constituted yet another element of military science that could be deactivated and detected by the radar.

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