1st Prize ‘Ayudas a la Creación Contemporánea,’ MataderoMadrid. Spain.
Exhibited at BYTS 2000 (S’ Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, 2010). Curated by Carlos Garaicoa.
Exhibited at Sobreestructuras. (OTR Projects, 2010).
Curated by Marlon de Azambuja.
“(…) Impeccable once again, very correct, at the forefront in terms of strategies for editing and formalizing the works —all for good as well as bad—, Fresneda’s proposal brings together a small set of recent works around the history of the German brothers Reinhold and Günther Messner, who in the early seventies attempted the climbing of Nanga Parbat, one of the highest and most devilish mountains on the planet.
The first of them thus undertook his challenge to conquer the eight-thousanders [the fourteen highest mountains on the planet,] a challenge that was thwarted with the tragic disappearance of his brother in the attempt, giving rise to a great deal of speculation and mysteries about what really happened.
(…) But with hardly any fuss, without grandiloquence, Fresneda is revealed working at the bottom of metaphors about topographic science and vital itineraries; the thorough planning of an endeavor and (literally!) frozen romanticism. Or about the strange, unexpected passions that can drive a poetic perspective upon the real and the impossible in the modern world.”
—Óscar Alonso Molina, 2010.
Originally published in ABCD, April 10th, 2010.
