Andalusian figurative art once again has a window in Córdoba since last night. Room Vimcorsa will host the exhibition ‘Where a torch lights up’ until September 15th. Panoramic of current Andalusian figuration’. This is a large collective exhibition in the … that 55 creators born or settled in the Andalusian autonomous community participate and that the journalist, collaborator of ABC and cultural manager Felix Ruiz Cardador.
The exhibition has the support of the Junta de Andalucía and the European Museum of Modern Art of Barcelona (MEAM) and is sponsored by the company Rother Industries & Technology. The inauguration was carried out by the mayor, José María Bellidoand the Culture delegate, Isabel Albás.
The curator of the exhibition explained yesterday that the title of the exhibition alludes to a verse from a famous poem from the book ‘Junio’ by the Córdoba writer of the Cántico Group Pablo García Baena. According to him, he added, with these four words “the capacity that figurative art has to expand deep emotions is condensed.”
Long list of authors
“It is as if a small spotlight, a torch or torch of the type used by prehistoric men, illuminated just one object, but achieved something much greater: at the same time evoking a universe in its complexity.”
The list of artists included in the exhibition is long. Starts with María José Cortés Antequera, Virginia Bersheba, Antonio Barahona, Manuel Luna, Juan Bautista Nieto, Jorge Gallego, Cristina Vázquez, Daniel Franca, Salustiano, Sabino Moreno and Conrado López. It continues with José María Peña Gallardo, Miguel Gómez Losada, Almunia deMiguel, Chiqui Díaz, Antonio Cazorla, Carlos Dovao, Pedro Rodríguez, Martín Lagares, Cristóbal León and Félix Revello de Toro.
Cordoba names are being added to them. Thus, they continue to make up the group of artists José Antonio Díaz Barberán, Aurelio Rodríguez, Joseba Sánchez Zabaleta, Manuel Castillero, José Luis Muñoz, María José Ruiz, Francisco Escalera, Javier Bassecourt, José Manuel Belmonte, Julia Hidalgo, Curro Sújar, Noe Serrano, José María Serrano, Francisco Vera Muñoz, Cristina Ybarra or Adrián Marmolejo. The 55 participants close with Pedro Cuadra González, Jesús Montoya Herrera, Ricardo Galán Urrejola, Fermín García Villaescusa, Antonio Lara Luque, Rafael Cervantes, Pedro Líndez, Andrés García Ibáñez, Roberto Manzano, Josefa Medina, Miguel Ángel Maderas ‘Di Boschi’, José Manuel Martínez Pérez, Sergio Romero Linares, Gonzalo Orquín and Teresa Guerrero.
Ruiz Cardador pointed out during the opening of the exhibition in the heart of Córdoba that “once the artistic labels of the 20th century have been overcome, figuration is experiencing a dynamic period of expansion in countries such as the United States and Japan that extends throughout Europe and Spain”. Andalusia, cradle of great figurative masters of the past, is no stranger to this dynamic. “This exhibition is presented as a broad overview of the diverse ways in which the figure, the referential, is maintained in Andalusian painting and sculpture today,” he added.
The transcendence
‘Where a torch lights up’ vindicates the variety of figuration in the whole of contemporary Andalusian art. «A wealth to be reclaimed from the culture of our land that we hope will thrill viewers with its ability to fix moments of the temporary real, the dreamlike or the imaginary and to later convert them into an alternative reality with its own time in which “the human desire for transcendence beats,” said the artistic director of the exhibition.
The mayor, in the exhibition
ANGEL RODRIGUEZ
The exhibition features living painters and sculptors from the eight provinces and from very different generations. From Malaga Felix Revello de Toro, close to turning one hundred years old, to artists born at the end of the 20th century. The exhibition continues the exhibition ‘The rebirth of figuration’, promoted at the beginning of 2022 by the Córdoba City Council and the European Museum of Modern Art Barcelona (MEAM), and which closed with more than 11,000 visits.
Admission to the room is free and visiting hours are from Tuesday to Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and on Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
