MANUEL LEÓN – EL TRASLADO. PRIMER PASO
2015-08-10The title chosen for the exhibition, El traslado, refers to the movement of religious carvings in the days leading up to Easter, when the sculptures are moved from their place of worship to the sorority houses to then go in procession by being walked through the streets of the city. At the origin of this project we find an idea of Manuel León that hast to do with his exercise to explain, as he has previously done in numerous occasions, the conceptual starting point of his painting and the need to move permanently to another place. Both his work and his thought are transitive, which is reflected in this latest series of paintings that consider the principle of transit, an aspect that has not frequently been treated throughout the history of painting, not only in Spain but also internationally. After the suggestions proposed by the exhibition curator Fer Francés, León decided to change the scale of the appropriationists black and white watercolors in where he “paid tribute”, sometimes in an ironic key, to which for him were the greatest works of European Baroque or at least seemed to be more appropriate to raise new narratives from others that were known by him. Through these works he realized that he could take advantage of the reflection made by past masters to draw analogies with the reality of the moment he had been faced to live in. However, in a logical evolution after intervening on the work of previous artists, and with the hope of further developing his own new form of painting, he began to compose different images as a collage, which concluded with a rewarding job but at the same time over-demanding, compared to the one he had aimed for.
Opposite – ¿Dónde está el problema real?, 2015
Exhibition runs through to September 9th, 2015
Galeria Javier Lopez
Guecho, 12 B
28023 Madrid
Spain
