The Vimcorsa room, dependent on the Córdoba City Council, hosts the exhibition until September 15 Where a torch shines. Overview of current Andalusian figuration. This is a large collective exhibition in which 55 creators born or settled in the Andalusian autonomous community participate and which was curated by the journalist and cultural manager Félix Ruiz Cardador. The exhibition has the support of the Junta de Andalucía and the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona (MEAM) and with the sponsorship of the company Rother Industries & Technology.
The title of the show, Where a torch shinesalludes to a verse from a famous poem in the book June by the Córdoba writer from the Cántico Group Pablo García Baena. As the commissioner explained, with these four words “the capacity that the figurative art It has to expand deep emotions.” He has pointed out in that same sense that “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.”
Ruiz Cardador has also pointed out “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 of the present,” he noted.
The curator has indicated that, in another sense, it is also “a torch that illuminates this reality of which hundreds of artists are part, many more than the almost 60 who exhibit here.” Where a torch shines vindicates the variety of figuration in the whole of the contemporaneity of Andalusian art“a richness 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 that in the that beats the human desire for transcendence.”
The exhibition features living painters and sculptors from the eight provinces and from very different generations. From Félix Revello de Toro from Malaga, close to turning 100, to artists born at the end of the 20th century. The sample 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 schedules Visits from June 21 to September 15 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.
The list of artists included in the exhibition is the following: María José Cortés Antequera, Virginia Bersabé, Antonio Barahona, Manuel Luna, Juan Bautista Nieto, Jorge Gallego, Cristina Vázquez, Daniel Franca, Salustiano, Sabino Moreno, Conrado López, José María Peña Gallardo, Miguel Gómez Losada, Almunia de Miguel, Chiqui Díaz, Antonio Cazorla, Carlos Dovao, Pedro Rodríguez, Martín Lagares, Cristóbal León, Félix Revello de Toro, 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, Adrián Marmolejo, 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.
