06 February – 09 February 2020
Mexico DF, Mexico
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DOUBLE EXCALIBUR, oil on canvas, 97x130cm, 2019
“The wonderful thing in a miracle is its exceptionality. Once the wonder is repeated, its effect automatically becomes cheaper, even retroactively. We live in a metaphysically abandoned world and to a great extent that is due to a lack of surprise/amazement. This table only tries to verify where we are exactly today.”
ESTACA, oil on canvas, 89x116cm, 2019
“How to describe your own country in a ruthless way? That would be the challenge. The answer to that challenge A broken door of a nondescript place supported by a complex bundle of symbols. My country is a botch that is supported by a stupid pomp. Tolstoy said that “stupidity disguises itself as solemnity”. Nothing more needs to be added to this.”
GAP, oil on canvas, 61x81cm, 2019
“A party is at its turning point. In a while, everything will fall apart. We don’t know in which direction. And that’s what’s disturbing. Each and every one of my paintings in Material may be high-voltage political. Party included.”
S/T (Pinoccios), oil on canvas, 50x62cm, 2019
“The long-nosed dolls look like a corrupt politician from my country and each of them catches the other with their lie. They are all actually the same. They all look alike. They are of unbearable mediocrity if we look closely. There is no merit in being one of those who reaches out.
Lying fellatio that seems consensual; but that actually compromises ad nauseam.”
S/T (FALLING YOUTH), oil on canvas, 46x37cm, 2019
“If I said young people who fall, everything would be understood. Everything is understood now”
OFFICIAL PORTRAIT, oil on canvas, 41x27cm 2013
“The most literal of my works in Material.
The Kings of Spain portrayed? Or a still life from a page of Hola magazine? In any case, an anomaly can be seen. The Queen has shattered like a china doll. A twist on the portrait of Dorian Gray applied to the stupidity of normalizing the Monarchy and the serious distortions that acceptance entails: immunity from crime; privacy protection with public money; elitism; and in the specific case Spanish conformism with Francoism. Or at least an uncritical spirit with him.”
Untitled (Unicorn), oil on canvas, 40x55cm, 2016
“The idea was lost childhood, quite simply, expectations that are broken.”
Untitled, oil on canvas, 47x55cm, 2020
“The players don’t know what’s going on in the middle of the pitch. Neither does the viewer of the image. It could be that the images were becoming strange, or that the meanings were opening up. If you look closely you will see that I have painted on the right the light of the flash of a photograph that I took of another version of the painting. I make the image go through layers of reality as if in an interdimensionality from which it will no longer be able to return. Summary; the disconnection of the image from its context and the very disconnection from the action of its spectators (who will not be able to understand even the new dimensionality of what happens in the middle of the field) are the theme.”
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