UNTIL SUNDAY 8/6
F. BANCAJA. Pl. Tetouan, 23
Urules There are many. That with said in the presentation of the first retrospective in Valencia dedicated to it is Pop art reference in the Spanish State. Eduardo Uúculo. A cosmopolitan traveler Review four decades of work (from the sixties to the end of the nineties) in which the Asturian artist, as an insatiable search engine that was,He dared with everything type of techniques, Corrientes, formats and topics. Worked with sculpture, he LINEOGRABADO, The etching, Oil or the airbrush, In large and small formats, y On topics The most colorful They were turning over.
The tour begins from the Bancaja Foundation In the sixties, with dark pieces of thick brushstroke that flirt with informalism and abstraction. In a very remote style from which he practiced most of his career, pintfrom solitary characters, desperate and sad marked by a dramatic and social expressionism. He was Asturian and they were difficult times in this cuenca Minera, immersed in full coal crisis.
Grows The size of their canvases when I know Transfer a Ibiza, where he begins to paint with colorful acrylics to voluptuous women who give off and eroticism that at times can touch the pornographic. The cWomen's Useless Use Face In which the influence of the prints can be seen to Japanese, coated here of a pop patina that lightens the scene and makes it less andxPlícita.
Uúculo He was an inveterate traveler and, as such, The trip is an essential theme in his work And in this exhibition. He liked to portray himself as a witness of a New York who He had absolutely fascinated, with his Chinatown and his jazz clubs Business and decadent. Hence in Su Third stage with will dedicate To paint men With hat,backwards, that transit cosmopolitas cities, mute witnesses of the great city that serve as metaphor of the loneliness of modern man. The hat, The suitcase and umbrella will become from there In iconographies urculianas that will also acquire a form of sculptures in bronze. EThe Black Cinema with its gangsters dresses of Hat and gabardina were a influence undeniable In his art, absolutely linked to the artist. the cinema, Advertising, The comics, The magazines and reality itself soaked a work full of desire, mystery, placer, suffering and exaltation of life. S.M.
