Encuentros atemporales

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Art is the result of a long discussion in time involving several interlocutors: the artist, the artists who preceded them in time, those who accompany them and, finally, the spectator.

Galería Marlborough Madrid celebrates three decades of continuous activity, during which it has shown a special interest in Spanish art and artists. Encuentros atemporales aims to be a conduit for this conversation, showing its eternal face in an active present.

Five of the gallery’s most experienced artists (Luis Gordillo, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Soledad Sevilla, Alfonso Albacete, and Francisco Leiro) enter into a dialogue with almost twenty artists from different generations in an exhibition that is both a fusion of shared ideas and a testimony to their permanence.

Just as in popular music there are songs with the same title that deal with similar or different themes, but whose final melody is as distinguishable as it is differentiated, so it happens with the works in this exhibition.

The artists who are not associated with the gallery and who participate in the show do so both as a constellation around those represented by Marlborough, and from their singular protagonism, without any direct influences or hierarchical lines, or at least that is not the curator’s intention.

The constant use and manipulation of the image is the backbone of Luis Gordillo’s work. It defines the very possibility of artistic existence of the image. Painters as different as Pere Llobera, Nacho Martín Silva and Jorge Diezma have dedicated their work to the same game, with its breaks with the conventional and its references to history, in such different ways, but with a certain common background.

The relationship between science and less conventional artistic practice has characterised the work of Juan Navarro Baldeweg from the late sixties until well into the seventies.

This relationship has been explored by other artists, such as Juan del Junco and Rubén Ramos Balsa, from a natural point of view, and by others, such as Juan López, from an urban point of view. From a slightly different angle, we can mention the sophisticated processes that lead to the creation of Leonor Serrano Rivas' pieces.

The permanence of abstraction, understood in the broadest sense, is the hallmark of Soledad Sevilla. An abstraction that takes into account the formal elements developed over a century, as well as the argumentative ones, in most cases linked to the natural elements, even landscape, in the works of Arancha Goyeneche and Vicky Uslé.

Other examples deal with issues that could be considered philosophical or anthropological, as in the case of Cristina Lucas and Sara Ramo.

One of the many crucial axes around which Alfonso Albacete’s work has revolved has been the direct relationship between painting and the history of genres. In a broader sense, the works of Julia Santa Olalla, Rasmus Nilausen and Guillermo Mora also reflect this reaction to the proposals of reality and to the different ways of reading it.

The persistence of the human figure, or the figure in its most varied meanings, in which the shadow of all the historical components of the ideas linked to its interpretation plays a decisive role, is the strongest element of the sculptures and drawings of Francisco Leiro and MP & MP Rosado, but also of Juan Muñoz and Victoria Civera, Teresa Solar and Elena Alonso.

This exhibition is organised in collaboration with: Alarcón Criado, Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Bombon Projects, carlier | gebauer, Espacio Valverde, F2 Galería, Galería Alegría, Galería Juan Silió, Galería T20, House of Chappaz, Max Estrella, Moisés Pérez de Albéniz and Travesía Cuatro.