UNTIL SUNDAY 9/3
VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
Until September we could see in the Bancaja Foundation an exhibition dedicated to El Paso Group, that group of artists who in the mid-twentieth century, in the middle of Franco's regime, They wanted to renew Spanish art by embracing new airs that came from the United States.: those of abstract expressionism with that gestural and material violence so characteristic of them.. Among them, there was only one woman, Juana French, but she would end up leaving the group when she felt that her art was belittled because of her female condition.. This IVAM exhibition is dedicated to her, which delves into the different stages of her artistic career and serves as a culmination of the centenary of her birth.. Until 1960, The woman from Alicante made works with different textures (watered or dripped), sober colors (negros, whites and earth tones) and new materials such as earth or sand of different thicknesses and textures. Then I would incorporate waste material and fragments of nature (found objects, brick pieces, ceramics and glass) in compositions closer to Dadaist approaches or Arte Povera. From 1963 and for almost twenty years he produced his most important series, The man and the city, those boxes with imprisoned heads that described a distressing and oppressive human environment as a result of industrialization and economic development of the time.. And in the eighties he returned to abstraction in his series Underwater Backgrounds, Comets y Shields, where he experimented again with matter and gesture, with circle and rectangle, to evoke the cosmos and the depths of the sea. AU
