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The Byzantine Wall hosts from this Thursday, February 2, the exhibition of Pedro Juan Rabal 'Counterculture: The Iconic and the Ambiguous', which comprises some thirty paintings done between 2014 and 2017 and focuses on the representation of the iconic, within Of the frame of ambiguity that remarcas the majority of the personages or the represented objects.

The exhibition, which can be viewed from Tuesday to Friday from 9.30 am to 2 pm and from 5 pm to 7.30 pm, and on Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 2 pm until 10 March, was inaugurated on Thursday, February 3, An event held in the Byzantine Wall Exhibition Hall attended by the Councilor for Culture, David Martinez.

Rabal's exhibition is not an exhibition of portraits, but you can see figures in action that tell more than the simple resemblance of the represented, in a collection that allows you to observe clear references to pop art, surrealism or expressionism.

These are direct paintings, without filters and the only thing they want is the dialogue with the public.

In this way, different icons of culture, mythology, society and history in general are gathered that transmit to the viewer values ​​and messages that are expanded by physically witnessing the work.

The support becomes a sculptural object, which makes it essential to see the paintings live.

THE AUTHOR

Pedro Juan Rabal is an aquiline born in 1988 with a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche.

He holds a Master's Degree in Teacher Training in Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Teaching, and currently coordinates and directs the studio-painting school in Aguilas.

He has participated in more than twenty exhibitions, between individual and collective, and has produced the poster of the Carnival of Eagles in 2016 and Easter, also of Eagles, in 2013. In turn, was the winner of the first prize of the Caixaltea Painting Contest in 2010, in addition to being awarded in the Quick Painting Competition 'Eagles in your brush' in 2010, 2011 and 2013.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena