UNTIL SUNDAY 3/9
THE SHIP. University, 2
It's been a while since I've seen the Martínez Guerricabeitia collection at La Nau, one of the most important contemporary art in the university area guarded by the institution since 1999. The collection is on display again in its reference room, putting on the table one of its strong points, the prints (the other would be the political content) of the seventies and eighties that give a general idea of Spanish and international graphic art prevailing in the second half of the twentieth century, crossed by informalism, expressionism abstract, geometric abstraction, neocubism, social and critical realism, narrative figuration, pop art, neo-Dada and hyperrealism. The prints have been cataloged for the occasion by subject and, although most authors are from Valencia, we find a great international name like de Roy Lichtenstein, and a few renowned nationals such as Eduardo Chillida, Eduardo Arroyo, o Antonio Saura (founder of the El Paso group together with Rafael Canogar, also present in the sample), who appears along the entire route as the Guadiana. Same as Joseph Renau o Jose Garcia Ortega, representative of post-war socialist realism and one of the most important members of the Estampa Popular group to which José Iranzo Almonacid also belonged.It's here” o Andrew Alfaro, both present as representatives of that Valencian artistic current that launched critical messages of a political and social nature during the last years of the Franco regime. There are more Valencians: Manuela Ballester, Artur Heras, Rosa Torres, José María Yturralde (conquered established in Alboraia), Eusebio Sempere, Juan Genovés o Carmen Calvo they print their art in La Nau to tell us about fighting, amor, tradition, can, policy, inequality and repression. S.M.
