UNTIL SUNDAY 16/6
F. BANCAJA. Pl. Tetouan, 23
Nassio Bayarri traveled to the United States in 1963 invited by Our Lady of Cincinnati College of Ohio (hui, l’Edgecliff College) with resident artist, six years before humans first set foot on the moon. This historical fact awakened the Valencian sculptor's curiosity about the space race and orbital flights, though, two years before, al 1967, had already published the Manifest Cosmoísta where he advocated an art of the cosmos that imagined magical worlds alluding to the origin and future of man. Admirer d'Oteiza, developed an artistic style that aligned with his belief in the existence of life in other worlds and galaxies, and this is the basis of the retrospective dedicated to him by the Bancaja Foundation a year after his death to vindicate him as a modernizer of sculpture. Eighty works including installations, volume drawings, paintings, tables with collages cubists, black and white ceramics and, especially, sculptures, made of clay, stone, metals and wood. You will find a sculpture of Adam and Eve from 1969, feta in whip, influenced by the more Africanist Picasso, close to another with the same protagonists, of 2018, sculpted in steel and with a futuristic accent, as a clear example of Bayarri's evolution and versatility in the use of materials and techniques. The theme, doesn't change: the cosmos and the human figure. S.M.
