The exhibition panorama of the capital of the province is, at the moment, very well covered, with all the spaces not only in the performance they must have but with samples of a certain artistic interest. However, the existing artistic heritage, the maximum quality of Cadiz artists, the creative dynamism and the absolute reality of an art forward like the one that exists in Cádiz and its area of influence, mean that, probably, the city should give much more and not stay, as is the case, watching them come and adapt to a formula that, I believe, is at half throttle when everything, absolutely everything, in the artistic moment existing, gives much more. But it is what it is and we’ll stick to that. Let’s analyze some of the samples currently existing in the exhibition spaces of the capital.
Benot Gallery: THE LIGHT THAT VIBRATES. The faithful heritage that highlights the real
The absolute festival of painting. The total exercise of representation. Color exercising its maximum function. Everything is subordinated to the magical game of expression, to the supreme development of the artistic sense. ‘The light that vibrates’, a recently closed exhibition, takes us to that open dimension of painting. In it everything is possible within a figuration where the real illustrates its definitive position. Painting makes light vibrate, gives rhythm to objects, enhances the meaning of things, magnifies feelings and pinches the spirit. The painting opens the perspectives of the horizon it represents; eternalizes reality; provokes the gaze of the beholder.
‘The light that vibrates’ gives meaning to the supreme postulates of figurative painting, to the imperishable schemes of reality described in its most open postulates. Supreme gestures that dimension what the eye captures; the lucid interpretation of reality; the exact description of a beautifully composed moment. María Teresa Martín-Vivaldi generates the absoluteness of colorful expression. Pedro Escalona It stops the most intimate time. Javier Banegas perfumes the vision of what surrounds us with reality. Teresa Lapayese sculpts the rhythm of things nearby. Carlos Monago It surrounds the vibrant light with a subtle atmosphere.
Exposure subject to the values that Fali Benot they like and that have remained intact over time in a gallery with tremendously clear ideas.
SANTA CATHERINE CASTLE. The discourse established in the figurative painting of FERNANDO DEVESA
It is not easy in the pictorial landscape of Cádiz figuration to postulate developments and outcomes in line with the powerful existing artistic establishment. There is a lot and, perhaps, the best in the segment. Fernando Devesa He does it with cunning and credible arguments. The exhibition in the main room of the Castillo de Santa Catalina places us before a painter with the bases well assimilated and the rigorous postulates of acting realism, allowing everything to be perfectly adequate in substance and form. That is why we find a painting with broad figurative structures, with models appropriate to the schemes of a well-conjugated representation. Loosely defined urban landscapes that are illustrative developments of an attractive citizen street map, magnifying a careful figuration that catches the eye and convinces without excessive dialectical positioning. Likewise, we find still lifes that support a well-composed static aesthetic with the unequivocal records of a rigorously planned representation from the conviction of a painting that opens from the solidity of the usual pictorial postulates.
ECCO. The convincing arguments of PACO MÁRMOL’s powerful drawing
At this point, the work of Paco Marble It does not offer the slightest doubt to anyone. He is a born draftsman, of absolute sobriety and exquisite rigor, of artistic consciousness that can be accepted from all positions, knowing that reality is manifested when his formal developments are supported by solidly formulated parameters such as those proposed by a painter convinced of the principle. finally Furthermore, Paco Mármol’s spectacular work contains a background of social denunciation; It is like a powerful cry that cries out against existential injustices, about nature, the environment and the pressing dehumanization of a society in a clear process of questioning. Paco Mármol’s drawings do not remain mere developments of a virtuosity that opens the greatest perspectives; It is not an empty reality either; He has a well-argued plastic concept, well assumed and made possible with infinite artistic sense. Paco Mármol is a necessary painter, who knows the ins and outs of the profession and who, in addition, fights for it and for its protagonists. He is an artist who paints very well, who draws with magnificence and who, likewise, raises the necessary postulates that must come together in an art that, unfortunately, is not always at the end of the street. Therefore, his work is edifying and his artistic zeal is worth taking into account.
First installment of an exhibition program that perhaps falls short of the artistic potential of a city that deserves much more. We will continue at it.
