Galería Uxval Gochez

Sicília, 382, 08025 Barcelona

Regular hours
Wed to Fri: 11am–2pm

+34 627 864 011

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About the gallery

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Galería Uxval Gochez, during The Collector is Present. Photo Eva Carasol

Uxval Gochez Gallery begins its journey in 2020, having as a precedent the activity Arte Aurora, which since 2014 had the collaboration of artists from the Barcelona scene.

Intrinsically eclectic, the gallery features the work of established and rising contemporary international artists, aiming to grow in the local ecosystem as a space for local cultural identity as well as a platform for international projects.

Represented artists:

Antonio Ortega, Marc Gonz, Marc Dentand, Marcela Jardon, Luis Guerra, Mark Redden, Paul Pretzer, Daniel Orson Ybarra, Giuseppe Gonella, Dunja Jankovic

Exhibition: Reginald & Perrin, Antonio Ortega’s Last Paintings

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Reginald & Perrin, Antonio Ortega’s Last Paintings: Antonio Ortega. Photo Eva Carasol

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Reginald & Perrin, Antonio Ortega’s Last Paintings: Antonio Ortega. Photo Eva Carasol

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Reginald & Perrin, Antonio Ortega’s Last Paintings: Antonio Ortega. Photo Eva Carasol

UNTIL SEPTEMBER 28TH.

When I first painted a series of canvases starring by a couple of stones, I did it because I didn't know what to paint or what there might be to paint. A start so miserable that it couldn't lead to anything significant. However, as time passed, the images began to teach me that generalizing a personal dilemma could solve it, I observed that the paintings did not betray any of the destructive motivation that lay behind them. 

The discretion of a couple of stones in an uncertain landscape gives the paintings the ability to intermediate through a positive illusion. For me, these paintings are welcome because they equate to indifference, detachment and the absence of opinion. In other words, some states of being and situations that affect us, and for which we would like to find a visual expression.

List of artworks

Exhibition: artist(s)

Antonio Ortega (Sant Celoni, 1968) professor at Escola Massana - UAB, he is represented by the Galerie Klaus und Elisabeth Thoman and is a member of the Grup d'Estudi. Antonio Ortega began his artistic activity in the field of installation and expanded performance by developing projects such as El Arte Doméstico (La Capella, Barcelona, 1999), Registro de Bondad (Sala Montcada, Barcelona, 2000) Antonio Ortega and The Contestants (The Showroom, London, 2002), Opfer sind wir alle (Museu Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach, 2003) or Faith and enthusiasm (Espai 13, Barcelona, 2004).

Examples from his recent artistic activity focused on the installation are the plinth installed throughout the second floor of the Macba Attempt to gloss over the concept of demagoguery, 2014; his ozone generator that built a space of 1047 m3 d'air purifié, 2017 for the Louvain la Neuve Biennial or the permanent installation in the dome of the MNAC Màparallamps, 2022. Since 2007, he has focused his production on writing and text by initially exploring the performative conference and experimental theater in I hope Alice Cooper does not become a vegetarian (SMOCA, Phoenix AZ, 2007) or The Best Ten Tips Ever, In Alphabetical Order (Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, 2009). Bielbooks published his first book Demagogy and propaganda in art according to Antonio Ortega (2013). He was curator of the exhibition Self-Organization (Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2017), which he accompanied with the publication  of an essay of the same title. 

He has recently presented The Lesson of Johanna Van Gogh (2021) published by Como Ediciones centered on the defense of operating in the art system according to an amateur perspective. From the year 2022 his work focuses on a return to painting.

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Activities

Saturday 16.09 - 11:00

Guided tour to the galleries: House of Chappaz, Galería Uxval Gochez, Suburbia Contemporary.
Limited capacity. Meeting point: House of Chappaz (Carrer de Ca l'Alegre de Dalt, 55, Baixos C)

SOLD OUT

In collaboration with the ARCO Foundation, Barcelona Gallery Weekend is once again offering free guided tours to the participating galleries: seven walks guided by a local expert in which gallerists and artists will present their exhibitions first-hand. Each itinerary will take place twice during the weekend. In Catalan/Spanish.

Sunday 17.09 - 11:00

Guided tour to the galleries: House of Chappaz, Galería Uxval Gochez, Suburbia Contemporary.
Limited capacity. Meeting point: House of Chappaz (Carrer de Ca l'Alegre de Dalt, 55, Baixos C)

SOLD OUT

In collaboration with the ARCO Foundation, Barcelona Gallery Weekend is once again offering free guided tours to the participating galleries: seven walks guided by a local expert in which gallerists and artists will present their exhibitions first-hand. Each itinerary will take place twice during the weekend. In Catalan/Spanish.

Saturday 16.09 - 12:30

At the end of 2021, Antonio Ortega publishes the book La Lección de Johanna van Gogh, in which he defends the subversive potential of assuming oneself as an amateur artist.
A collateral effect, on Antonio Ortega himself, is that he will focus his artistic practice on oil painting; specifically on obsessively painting two pink stones in an uncertain landscape.
In this guided tour, the artist will relate the theoretical thinking developed in the book with the effects of his positioning in his artistic practice and, specifically, with the works presented in the exhibition Reginald & Perrin, Antonio Ortega's last paintings.