The IVAM will host an exhibition of works by the North American artist Darryl Pottorf until 18th May. This artist uses innovative techniques that include painting, drawing and photography to create compositions that blend the historical, architectural and cultural images he has gathered in his travels around the world. The exhibition consists of 55 works, most belonging to the 2007 series Experiments in Consequence, which includes images of the city of Valencia.
Pottorf uses the concept of movement, the tendency to move forward, to create this sequence of interrelated items conceived as a single work based on the concept of movement that Étienne-Jules Marey captured in his photographs. The idea that every action leads to a series of subsequent acts attracted the artist because it reminded him of his own incessant activity and the fact that actions always have consequences. Pottorf uses his everyday experiences in his works. He was in Spain recently, first in Valencia and then in Madrid, and these cites became part of the artistic vocabulary that underlies the series on display at the IVAM. Darryl Pottorf was born in Cincinnati (Ohio, USA) in 1952. While studying art at the University of Florida he lived in Florence and visited other European countries to acquire the cultural baggage and repertory of forms that have shaped his personal iconography.
