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Exhibition: 0809 SHOWROOM
Date: September 23 to October 29, 2009
Location: Municipal Exhibition Hall of the Byzantine walls of Cartagena
Opening: Wednesday 23 September at 20.30
The Salguero Pérez unionense shown in Cartagena a summary of what have been his final two years of work.
His painting recalls certain excesses of pop and is characterized by the use of the popular icons of the comic and popular culture.
According to the artist, his painting has been characterized from the outset, a deep reflection on violence as a constitutive element of the contemporary.
Violence that is too obvious in the images we consume every day and is hiding behind the noise around us, bombarding us every moment and preventing saturation of information that properly digested.
Salguero has spent periods of study in emerging cities such as Berlin or New York and has participated in various international art fairs in Chicago and Miami, this makes it one of the young contemporary artists with the greatest impact overseas.
Today, he lives and paints in Cartagena.
His exploration of contemporary violence is a wake up call to the bloody invasion of images that assail us daily.
Work on what makes us appear insensitive to this violence, being able to process so many images with an apparent invulnerability that keeps us apart from something that not only surrounds us, but also living in ourselves.
The noise that surrounds us and deafened us.
SHOWROOM 0809 contains some of the work was presented at the Espacio AV in Murcia and other pieces of recent creation, all revolve around the issue of concern to the operator:
In recent years, my work has reflected on these issues, how universal icons we have taken in our Western culture have been hidden in our imagination as seemingly innocuous everyday items, while hiding behind the violence that while is evident, becomes inexplicably invisible.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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