PAINTING WITHOUT LITERATURE
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Javier Bermúdez
Jose Hevilla
Fran Conde
Cachito Vallés
From 15 Dec to 17 Feb 2019
CATALOGUE
Discussing painting in this contemporary age of utter banality, exacerbated by the exponential proliferation of images consumed by a hyper-consumer society which makes no attempt to critically examine them, is an exercise in resistance. In this project, the aim of that exercise is not to bring back the exaltation of painting as an object owned by the elite or present it as an easily consumable commodity in a decorative context, but rather to establish a theoretical framework for rethinking the idea of painting as the possibility of thought.
Through the work of José García Vallés, Fran Conde and José María Hevilla, the “picture-object” will run the gamut from seemingly 19th-century positions to others where painting literally steps outside itself. The artists’ proposals strive to heighten the tension between the image’s objective nature, which emphasises the textual drive of the pictorial surface, and its subjective side, in the sense that works negate the artist’s own subjectivity and gesture, and the impossibility of the picture as representation. The theme of the picture thus resides in understanding painting as a problem, considering its own internal structure and the question of its disappearance, in order to avoid the lure of historicist rhetoric or returning to the past.
The exhibition catalogue features an essay by exhibition curator Javier Bermúdez.
Openning: December 14th, 8pm
Guided tour: February 2nd, 1pm
Educational workshop: February 2nd, 11.30am to 1pm