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The latest works by Antonio Sosa (Coria del Río, 1952)
is on show at Galería Tomás March under the
title "El Filo de María". This is Sosas
first solo show in Valencia after his early steps in the by
now historical group formed around the Figura Magazine and
the Galería La Máquina Española: the
"Grupo de Sevilla". An already long trajectory that
has brougt his works to be exhibited in Spanish galleries
and institutions as: the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofía of Madrid, the Museo de Bellas Artes of Málaga,
the Galería Rafael Ortiz of Sevilla, the Galería
Berini of Barcelona, Galería Magda Bellotti of Algeciras,
Galería Buades of Madrid, Galería Alda Cortez
of Lisboa and more recently at the Galería Zellermayer
of Berlin.
" Antonio Sosa finds his pieces of truth in a fantasy
space, gleaning amidst the ruins of his dreams different sorts
of little things that Nabokov calls the "divine details"
that glisten and stand as meaningful to him. His works are
an amalgam of details, images and scriptures that open the
process of self- elucidation.
Sosa knows that the story we tell ourselves no longer makes
sense and that our relationship to whatever else there is
in the world, person or thing, is permeated by mistery, It
is a mistery to which he holds although, at he sme time, he
he remains unwilling to relinquish the utopian possibilities
of human solidarity, accepting nevertheless that human solidarity
and self-creation are equally valid but forever incommensurable.
Sosas world has always been a complex one, of truths
half torn from the ground, of an indebtedness to life experience
and the intense battle field of self-doubting. The ego, so
often the actor of the artist, is for him a mephistophelean
figure that haunts both sun and shade and that only the discipline
of centred thinking can overcome."
Kevi Power. (Excerpt from the catalogue of the exhibition
"En busca de una ética". Valencia, june 2001.)
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