Round Trip NY #1,#2,#3

Round Trip NY. Eva Mendoza

Round Trip NYwww.roundtripny.com

Interviews: 
Round Trip NY #1. Laura F. Gibellini
Round Trip NY #2. Txuspo Poyo
Round Trip NY #3. Pedro Barbeito
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Founder and Executive Director: Eva Mendoza Chandas

Round Trip NY is a blog about Spanish art in New York that contains interviews with artists, curators, art managers, critics and other professionals devoted to the arts and culture, whose work is in some manner related to NY City.

We are quite well settled in the twenty-first century. We have substituted almost entirely the former analog technology with its digital successor in this new era based on binary codes and pixels. We find a phenomenon, however, that continues to be present nowadays, in spite of the socio-cultural transformations that have taken place in the last years.  This phenomenon is foreign-artist emigration.

Why are artists and other art professionals still choosing NY as one of their main destinations? In contrast with reasons for emigrating in the past- political, economic, etc. - nowadays, the causes of this migratory movement are much more diffuse and imprecise.

What is the role of Spanish culture in NY nowadays? Where is it going? How is this situation affecting the creation and administration fields in the present, and what repercussions will it have in the future?

This online project gathers the opinions of professionals regarding these questions and opens up other questions, focusing  attention on the actual circumstances with the purpose of looking for sustainable solutions.

The first interviewed are the visual artists, Laura F. Gibellini, Txuspo Poyo and Pedro Barbeito.

Laura F. Gibellini (1978) thinks that there is some effort for the promotion of Spanish artists, "I feel uncomfortable thinking that the recognition of an artist depends on his origin. I don't quite like the idea of a Spanish artist being Spanish prior to being an artist. I believe that the institutions in Spain are starting to consider the importance of generating institutional links that favor mobility for the artists, something that is very necessary and still very limited. This is what I miss."Follow this link to read the interview:http://www.roundtripny.com/2010/08/round-trip-ny-1-laura-f-gibellini.html

Txuspo Poyo (1963) thinks that there are enough tools and potential in order to develop a cultural program in New York. Some keys to achieve this would be "...to count with a professional team that believes in the project instead of counting on functionaries. If we have in consideration the mobility of artists, curators, critics and musicians...who are in the city, we would be able to maintain a small space, a place without ostentations, but dynamic that involves a big part of these art professionals, an open space with a multicultural tissue. It may sounds utopic but the small peripheral art centers have demonstrated that it is possible. We shouldn't forget the media. We should involve them. New York counts with a lot of correspondents, both for written and for TV."Follow this link to read the interview:http://www.roundtripny.com/2010/08/round-trip-ny-2-txuspo-poyo.html

Pedro Barbeito (1969) regarding the pros and cons of being an artist on the East Coast, Barbeito affirms that "The disadvantage is that living and working in NY is expensive. The advantage is having an art community close, being able of seeing art whenever you want and getting to meet art dealers and curators, and establishing relations with them. I think nowadays there are more opportunities to exhibit in NY galleries than in other places. NY continues to be the center of the art world. Both the quantity and the variety of international audiences that can see the work of an artist are multiplied in NY."Follow this link to read the interview:http://www.roundtripny.com/2010/09/pedro-barbeito-la-coruna-1969-even.html