CARME CENTER. Museum, 2
The type of artist who would not make a work criticizing the use of anti-personnel mines on the wall that separates the Sahara without having been there., without having touched them, without knowing how they work. That type of artist is Isidro López-Aparicio. Able to transfer a topic as complex as the conflict between Israel and Palestine to a map, that of Europe, that makes us imagine how restrictive our lives would be if we had to deal at home, daily, with the enormous amount of check-points Israelis scattered throughout the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. López-Aparicio likes to link cartography to the social to violate and stress uncomfortable issues such as the voracity of capitalism or the drama of refugees trapped between artificial borders.. That is to say, Fill those maps with the human factor to look reality in the face, first of all, but without leaving aside the aesthetic component. With rudimentary rafts used by migrants to cross seas towards a better future, leaving everything behind, makes present a feeling that is very difficult to materialize, despair. With a Red Cross blanket and a mortuary bag, he has made haute couture designs that hit you in the stomach.. With a pyramid of cards with the image of Juan Carlos and Sofía face down, like our ineffable Felipe V in Xàtiva, refers to a structure that is both monumental and symbolic, and fragile and unstable. This is the kind of work that López-Aparicio executes, convinced that “art is generated in the process” because creativity inevitably leads to making mistakes and without these, there would be no art. S.M.
