16/03/2023 - 07/05/2023

PAHO, El Roto, Rábago. A microhistory of the world

Throughout a career spanning half a century, in the work of Andres Rabago (1947) one can trace themes, motifs and symbols that have persisted, with variations, in the production of his three heteronyms, and that affect different aspects of reality, expressed in different ways.

La Dadaist gaze OPS collects them from a critical and biting point of view, portraying the unconscious of an era and a country —the last years of the Franco dictatorship— and It calls into question its ideological heritage and its consequencesHis images generally lack words, obeying a silence imposed by censorship.

The drawings of The broken, with expressionistic features in the vein of satirical artists of the interwar period, such as George Grosz, sometimes approach the poetic Beckettian from the absurd through a dazzling and paradoxical use of language. His enormous body of work, which began in the mid-70s and continues to this day, It denounces the continuous abuses of power, highlights the ideological flaws, and questions the current tenets of neocapitalism and the digital society..

The third heteronym is the painter Rabago, which is situated in an area close to the spiritual and deals with the aspects that transcend the automatic and superficial view of what is conventionally called "reality"Rábago aims to recapture that dimension of humanity and create a window (the painting) through which a light, both physical and symbolic, can filter in. In his canvases, we perceive an atmosphere of simplicity and calm that stems from the effect of silence on his subjects, rather than from what his subjects do in silence.

The writer and curator Óscar Curieses explores the interconnectedness of the three plastic aspects of Andres RabagoThrough the selection of a series of recurring themes in his work (the forest, hats, family, birds…) which he weaves together through the writing of short fictional texts. Everything is repeated, but on another level and with another meaning thanks to the phenomenon intertextual and the resonances that unfold some images on top of others, some blocks on top of others.

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Date:
16.03.2023 - 07.05.2023
Price:
€5
Curatorship:

Oscar Curieses

Organized by:
José Guerrero Art Center and CBA

Ticket prices

€7 Entrance to exhibition and rooftop
€6 Exhibition entrance fee
€5 Reduced admission
€0 CBA Members

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11: 00 — 14: 00
17: 00 — 21: 00

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