UNTIL SUNDAY 12/11
CARME CENTER. Museum, 2
Well-defined lines that enjoy looking for the vertical, the emotional power of colors, rounded shapes meeting pointed angles, the alteration of scales, the polyhedral nature of drawings that play with multiple perspectives… they look collages, which makes us think of cubism, but those who know say that behind it is that game called kaleidoscope that allowed with each turn to destroy the ordered to create a new order. Miguel Calatayud's very personal style placed him at the forefront of cartoonists of his generation, enlarging his mark beyond the role of father of the clear line, that current that shook the world of Valencian and Spanish comics at the hands of Micharmut, Daniel Torres or Sento in the seventies and eighties. Which explains why he has received three times the National Illustration Award and the Distinction for Cultural Merit of a lifetime awarded by the Generalitat Valenciana. The Carmel Center collects in Transit il·lustrat, to the Carlos Pérez room, the best illustration works of the last twenty years signed by Calatayud. Although his style seems childish, they warn us, it is not based on a mere formal simplification designed for children's heads, breathes a careful complexity. In their works they have a lot to say about popular art, the vanguards, to the photo, the cinema, architecture and geometry. And the works of illustrators Manolo Prieto and Salvador Bartolozzi, the aques, the wrappers of the preserves, the advertising posters, the ceramic motifs or the signs of the tents. Here, of simple, there is nothing. Stop by the Center del Carmen to admire originals, watercolors and drafts of the aspenc that broke the frame of pop art within which he began to walk to create his own and unmistakable style. S.M.
