VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
Paco Roca he had absolute freedom to set up his exhibition in the gallery 6 of the IVAM and only one condition: everything had to be new work. Another would have limited himself to creating drawings to hang on the walls, But Paco Roca likes challenges and is always willing to explore new paths that nourish him with incentives.. So in The Drawn has not filled in vignettes, what is (in principle) yours, has decided to go a few steps further to introduce us, the spectators, in them through an immersive reading. The walls of the room (with satin white background) They become an expanded vignette with multilinear narration on a topic as hackneyed as it is interesting., the relationship between the creator and his work. Playing with the third dimension, Roca breaks the typical comic language by allowing the characters to leave the panel, even from the room. To talk to us—using references like Max or Frankenstein—about an unfinished creation that escapes its dimension., he becomes a creator and ends up locked in a vignette again. The parallelism between God and the cartoonist, creators both at different levels, it is clear, but… who is the narrator of this whole story? S.M.
