The Galería Tomás March shows from november 8 a new exhibition of the painter Curro Gonzalez (Sevilla 1960)
His first works connecting with the booming expressionist pictorial ways of the eighties, got recognition along with other sevillian artists linked with the Figura magazine. While his first pictures responded to the need of an inner knowledge of things, his paintings are a meditation on representation as they build an illusion of reality. Collage, puzzle and dialogue between fragments belong to his work along with appropriations of an almost sculptural language. The artist avails himself of horror vacui to set up a volcano of imagination in an outcome of near baroque aesthetics.
Curro Gonzalez is, without a doubt, one of the most important painters of that eighties generation, and he is at the beginning of the 21st century giving the best of himself. His work appears in the best colections and spanish museums as Fundación La Caixa, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Banco de España collection, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Caja Madrid collection, Fundación Coca-Cola, Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Unicaja collection, etc.
This show titled “Parada Melancólica” exhibits a series of paintings and drawings of diferent sizes and medias including the outstanding
“El Melancólico” (Mixed media on canvas, 280 x 501 cm) and “Parada Ciega” (Mixed media on canvas, 167 x 560 cm), two large pieces that perfectly illustrate the subject of this show , the title of which refers to a mental situation, to a contradictory sensation mixing action with paralysis. “Parada” is a paradoxical term in spanish that means ‘stop’, and it also indicates the idea of dynamics of a spectacular parade. Curro Gonzalez painting is one of resources and intentions, it meditates about Art and the history of Art, about social and political current events and at the same time appeals to introspection and to the exploraton of the subconscious world.