The Galería Tomás March presents an exhibition of recent works by Sevillian painter Patricio Cabrera (Gines, 1958) . Since his first show at ARCO 1985 integrating the group of artists  presented by the gallery La Máquina Española, Cabrera has got to be a well known artist  inside and outside spanish panorama. Since then, he has realised numerous solo shows in Spain and has participated in important group shows like: Europalia 85 (Amberes), Aperto 86 (Bienal de Venecia), Espagne 87: dinamiques et interrogations (Musée d¹Art Moderne de la ville de París). Painting Alone 1990 (The Pace Gallery, New York), A Través del Dibujo,1995-96 (Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid) Les Chiens Andalous, 2001 (Track 16 Gallery, Santa Mónica, Los Angeles, USA). Excesos de La Mente, 2002 (Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla).

Patricio Cabrera was,  out of that group  of artists called Grupo de Sevilla, the artist that better picked up the arabic tradition always latent in the Andalousian culture. Cabrera resolves this in his painting by using innumerable wefts or arabesques that wrap the figurative motives, on top of them or underneath, acting like a web  that  suggests the narration. In  this recent work, narration is composed around the garden theme, images of flowers, plants and man Œs intervention on them,  and the arms of the gardener. But Cabrera establishes a distance that underlines the act of representation and,  at the same time,  he alienates himself from representation, sharing with the spectator the awareness of  the fact that  all painting is fiction. Cabrera makes that evident when  he intermingles his arabesques with the shape of the plants so that, come the time, in some of these works, the fancy shapes become the very plants and are watered or trimmed with the tool held by the gardener¹s hands. Up to the point that, for the first time, Patricio Cabrera takes one of his arabesques out of his paintings and sets it among  his paintings, in three dimensions, converted into a sculpture.