PARTICIPATING CREATORS

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Fabiano Gonper

Augustine Nunez

José Gabriel Fernández

José Vera Matos 

Giancarlo Scaglia

Jose Luis Serzo

louis quintero

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Fabiano Gonper

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O Manipulador shows drawings on canvas of faceless executives (stereotyped symbols of power with their hierarchical "uniforms") whose facial features have been removed and which the artist collects from real media images Communication. They are works with a large number of figures made with black lines on a white background, which the artist veils with voile, a cloth that covers the entire work and softens the drawing. The intensity of these works lies in the coexistence  agolpada of the scales of the figures, their superimpositions and the relationships established between them. A multitude of inexpressive faces, different gesticulating bodies question us behind a veil, they appear to us as the same element, the same attitudes and the same non-verbal language of power.

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Augustine Nunez

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Continuous references to the animistic mind of the child and children's literature nourish the work, taking as its main characteristic being able to represent what remained hidden. Like the personification of a dream close to a nightmare.

Transgressing conventional limits, the drawings appeal to the collective memory with images of a grotesque realism, of a threatening nature, but always elegantly made, allowing the viewer to participate in the ambiguous and unstable nature of the work.

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José Gabriel Fernández

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In the works of recent years, I propose an intimate bodily reading of sculpture through immaculate geometries and naked volumes that awaken a dialogue between the body and the work. The precise edges and contours that define these sculptures and reliefs seem to blur their achromatic and gravitas nature, impart an aura of stillness and timelessness to the whole, while giving them a light and ethereal quality, weightless and immaterial despite the imposing dimensions of some of the works. Silent but powerful with energy, these figures y shapes penetrate, modulate and mutate from one to another, from the negative to the positive, from rest to movement in a sensual dialogue with each other.

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José Vera Matos

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The democratization of symbols, the indeterminacy and the consumption of the ephemeral, represent some of the main characteristics of the contemporary world. These particular characteristics, in turn, are generated by the mismanagement of technology, the absence of coherent discourses and the exacerbated search for pleasure.
Faced with these phenomena, José Vera recognizes himself as an active and constitutive part of this reality. In this work, he shows us close-up images, which mostly include representative symbols of Western culture.

Manuel Ramos Van Dick​

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Jose Luis Serzo

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“The Dreams of I Ming, the little yellow one” continues to expand the parallel world that Serzo has been unfolding for years with the help of all the tools and disciplines at his disposal. Disciplines through which this artist seems to move with complete ease and knowledge of the cause.  From drawing to painting, from photography to sculpture, from video to installation, all of them linked with his own Literature as the common thread, configure what characterizes Serzo the most: his great and endearing exhibitions-story.

José Luís Serzo opts for a more intimate and profound record, if possible, with regard to each of the pieces separately, managing to concentrate in each work-anecdote, a plastic forcefulness  and a trade humble, thoughtful Some works that, once again, manage to situate themselves at that point where the discourse and a current conscience coexist happily with the voices of the past, the eternal, the universal.

He presents us, once again, with a demanding work with a humanist background; an overflowing imagination to carry out a vital, spiritual and optimistic story. An exhibition, in short, rich in quotes and allusions (to cinema, literature, comics or art history itself) to convey a hopeful and idealistic message that is certainly revolutionary for these times.

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louis quintero

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As usual in his work, Luis Quintero presents on this occasion a sculptural work of classical tradition and great workmanship that mixes different materials such as ivory, wood, bronze, terracotta, etc..._cc781905-5cde-3194- bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ Materials that he deals with as a craftsman at the service of knowledge, a fundamental principle in his work. A knowledge that is identified with life and that symbolically resides in the head (receiver of both knowledge and the human soul) hence the important presence of that significant part of the human body in the sculptural production of the artist from Cádiz._cc781905-5cde- 3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ Examples of this are: Maeternity, BORN, Death ahead, remembering Magritte,  etc...

Quintero, in the same way, ironically and relentlessly addresses aspects and human attitudes through fables and symbols; this is the case of Oedipus and the Sphinx, Contraesop, the deluded, table for princesses, etc...  This use of symbolic language allows the artist an ingenious communication that invites the viewer to inquire into the work looking for the vestiges of its meaning, on many occasions polysemic, which invites reflection and attention.

The use of acrostics in a large number of pieces gives the artist the possibility of giving each work different readings, through a simple and direct game with whoever faces his sculptures.  This mix of games , irony and references to other sources of knowledge such as science, religion, poetry, etc... makes Luis Quintero's work attractive and disturbing, biting and forceful. 

In the words of FM Cano: “Luis's work is not transitory, he does not speak of the instant but of general laws of a global moment, of what is valid forever. It is a thoughtful and meditative work.  Without doctrinal preteritions because it brings us closer to both the definitive finding and the eternal doubt.” _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad91_5cf -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  

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