12 January – 18 February 2023
Barcelona
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Historias del Arte (Art Histories) by Aldo Urbano is an installation that brings together the 352 original drawings that are part of the artist’s latest comic, published by Contra editorial. This exhibition-editorial project is the result of almost three years of work, where the artist narrates stories of terror and ecstasy (or what happens when a painter is asked to write a book about the history of art). The installation is a kind of pictorial and literary experiment, a parody of the book “History of Painting” or the history of art turned into a fable that expands on the gallery walls. A hallucinatory voice accompanies the beholder through cathartic and transformative experiences, maddened kings, deviant mystics and the greatest force imaginable. The result is a nightmare from which we want to wake up, a story adrift and also a moment of ecstasy sighted in the heart of the storm.
Next Thursday at 7pm we will present Historias del Arte, the latest comic by Aldo Urbano. The book will be presented by the author and the writer Victor Balcells. From Thursday until the 18th of February, all the original drawings will be on display in the gallery.