F. BANCAJA. Pl. Tetouan, 23
Florence was the cradle of the Renaissance and Paris of Impressionism, New York attracted the greedy eyes of the art world after a Second World War that had devastated Europe and today London is the world's artistic epicenter. There is no one to cough on him. Hence, the Bancaja Foundation has decided to bring together London calling to a group of artists on the crest of the wave under two premises, that they remain active and that their art drinks (and influence in turn) from the british capital, owner and lady of the highest box on the podium thanks to the conjunction of several factors: Wealth (fundamental seed artistic flowering since the times of time), the proliferation of art schools (where most of the artists we can see in this exhibition have studied), media that give space and dissemination to art, the multitude of first-class galleries and prestigious museums, and the existence of awards like the Turners that involve the entire society in the artistic debate. Plowed the ground, artists grow like poppies. There could be many others in London calling, but those that exist are indisputable, starting with the oldest, David Hockney, the most sought-after living artist in the world who, to his 83 years he has started doing work with iPad and computer. Another of the big names is Damien Hirst, the controversy made art of impossible titles, who filled newspaper pages in the nineties with his dead animals preserved in formaldehyde. Hirst explores the relationship between life and death in many of his works., theme that distills Yatra, the piece of concentric circles made with dead butterflies that is exhibited in Bancaja.
Idris Khan stratifies information to reach abstraction, He did it with the Koran in the beginning and he does it in this exhibition with a musical score and with the feelings that his wife's abortion and the death of his mother caused him., repeatedly stamped in a circle on a series of overlapping glass sheets that give another dimension of depth to the drawing. The works of Anish Kapoor present in the London calling They concentrate two very typical characteristics of the artist, the use of red and stainless steel. On the one hand, two stainless steel discs with red lacquer will give you back, invested, your reflection and that of the room, that will become part of the work. On the other hand, pieces made with silicone that reproduce organic shapes—“flesh” as the English would say—closely related to one of the great representatives of the London art scene of the second half of the 20th century who, by the way, Shares exhibition upstairs with Lucian Freud: Francis Bacon. Two giants of art who preceded the new blood that parades through the exhibition. Jake and Dinos Chapman, controversial in their grotesque representations with references to art history and popular culture, They have cast in bronze a bomb vest like those used in terrorist attacks, and the series of engravings have intervened The disasters of war by Goya who, coincidences of life, are shown in another of the current exhibitions of the Bancaja Foundation. Copulating pigs and James Hetfield appear in the dramatic scenes of the Spanish War of Independence., Metallica singer, among many other characters. Mat Collishaw is present with Last meal on death row, Texas, a series of paintings with the Last Supper requested by several death row inmates in a Texas prison painted in imitation of still lifes from 17th century Holland. They complete the list Michael Craig-Martin, Phyllida Barlow, Sean Scully, Richard Deacon, Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley, Cornelia Parker, Julian Opie (who is currently starring in an exhibition at La Nau), Grayson Perry, Yinka Shonibare, Rachel Whiteread, Rachel Howard, Jason Martin y Annie Morris, twenty artists in total who make up the leading group of world contemporary art. They are not all what they are (Tracey Emin, For example, did not want to participate), but they are all who are. AU
