ACMÉ (en dos variaciones)

Luis Adelantado is pleased to invite you to Acmé (in two variations), the first exhibition of the Madrid artist Blanca Gracia at the gallery. Blanca presents a video project that reveals her vision, based on a series of readings of the utopian civilisation of the early 20th century, while at the same time presenting a very personal universe that breathes freedom.
Acmé draws on hundreds of references, and generates a duality that is both formal and conceptual. In terms of form, Blanca presents two variations on a filmic narrative that breaks down at a certain point, showing either the vehemence or the tyranny of King Midas. A reflection on the importance and impact of each of our decisions on the events to come, based on medieval moralistic tales, and on the first utopian currents of the 20th century, among which Thoreau’s vision stands out.
“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to face only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could learn what it had to teach, lest when I was about to die I should discover that I had not lived.” Henry David Thoreau, 1854.
The film combines real image with animation, and the actors – all of them amateurs – wear very specific outfits, with a latent symbolic charge. The characters change their skin and become archetypes who seek the balance between good and evil, the struggle between the tyrant and the good guy. It is not in vain that the mural The Allegory of Good and Evil Government by the Lorenzetti brothers serves as a guiding thread for this story.