COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION OF IBEROAMERICAN ART AT LA COMETA
By Álvaro de Benito
The Madrid branch of La Cometa gallery presents during July the work of eight of its Ibero-American artists in a group show that delves into different languages and techniques, from ceramics to painting, and also includes dialogues with architecture and other productions. Three of those represented come from Spain, while of the five American representatives, four are Colombian and one is Cuban, which brings a representative vision of the gallery's artistic proposal closer to the spectator.
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Juan Baraja (Toledo, Spain, 1984) gives a look at everyday architecture and the spaces it creates. His photographs capture these places, but above all he invites us to observe their detail and subtlety, regardless of their nature. Mercedes Lara (Daimiel, Spain, 1967) proposes a representation of the environment of her hometown through the use of changing shapes and color to generate the reflection of the landscapes themselves and the material sensation of the seasons of the year that mark the daily life. Luisa Pastor (Alicante, Spain, 1977) builds worlds through fragments that invite reflection to work the analysis and critical look towards the materialism that invades contemporary society.
The ceramic works of Nicolás Bonilla (Bogotá, Colombia, 1984) offer a wide range of possibilities to work on the concepts of nature. For his part, Adam Goldstein (Bogota, Colombia, 1989) vindicates the most academic abstraction in his production focused on the relationship between light and color. Ana González (Bogota, Colombia, 1974) bets on beauty as a central aesthetic element represented through her sculptural interventions and advocates collaboration as an essential part of creation. Yosman Botero (Cúcuta, Colombia, 1983) draws from magical realism to convey feelings of uneasiness about the essential and the apparent reality in which we live, generating the need to get something more through the intensive look at the hidden. Rachel Valdés (Havana, Cuba, 1990) closes the American list of this collective exhibition with her three-dimensional work in diverse techniques that invites to reflect and contemplate the relationship between work and spectator.
Group exhibition: Juan Baraja, Nicolás Bonilla, Adam Goldstein, Ana González, Mercedes Lara, Alberto Lezaca, Luisa Pastor, Rachel Valdés can be seen until the end of the month at La Cometa, Calle de San Lorenzo, 11, Madrid, Spain.