Drawing cabinet. Literate Azorín, 33
The first exhibition of the Drawings Cabinet begins, paying tribute to simplicity through organic forms. The sample Mallow and asphodel brings together the six artists who will show their works in the exhibition space over the coming months, years rather. The first of the tour is a woman, the only one, Nieves Torralba, that he shares with Felipe Ortega-Regalado y Ernesto Casero the plant theme. Torralba draws very pure and simplified plant forms while Ortega-Regalado, much more baroque, gather small works between fringes. Home, for his part, plays with the idea of collage and symbiosis (isn't he collage, after all, a symbiosis?) superimposing plant elements, animals and minerals in three works united by a beautiful site specific (Torralba has also done his). Regarding figurative artists, Santiago Talavera draws cadaverous bullfighters, police and bullfighters in works that shout against bullfighting (These works were exhibited alongside those of Goya in the exhibition Other bullfighting which housed National Chalcography in 2016); y Antonio Dominguez criticize with watercolor, in triangular works, stereotypes that affect women. A separate case is that of Roberto Molla, that achieves harmony despite the aggressiveness of its geometric shapes by placing a gray grid on them that, almost, It's even relaxing. We are welcomed to the gallery by the house's trademark exterior showcase with frameless work by the great Manuel Boix, another great champion of austerity. S.M.
