UNTIL SUNDAY 24/4
THE SHIP. University, 2
“Little eye Luis, “We know where you live”. A stone cardboard inquisitor tells him this at the statue of Lluis Vives that presides over the cloister of La Nau, institution that reviews with Valencian Ortifurama forty years of career of one of the most important graphic humorists of the Cap i Casal, Antonio Ortiz Fuster, Ortifus. The monument of the inquisitor, fet expressly for the exhibition, synthesizes in three dimensions the main characteristics of the artist's work: synthesis and word games. The maximum expression with the minimum line complementing a sharp and rethought text. Ortifus had designed jewelry, cloths and counters before marking the Valencia Newspaper he 1981 as a graphic comedian, here began a four-decade career inextricably linked to Valencian history, that now La Nau unfolds in a large mural divided by years where caricatures parade, sculptures and vignettes about characters as close as Rita Barberà, Carmen Alborch, Blanquita or Joan Monleón starring in the current affairs of the moment. Primer in black and white, from 2006, with color notes. Drinking from references such as Tip and Coll, the magazine The Quail or the comics of Bruguera, he created his own style of infantile forms marked by the ideological background, commitment and humor, which, Ortyphus diu, "it's health, with him we are all more handsome". Cartoons to smile and think, you won't run out of them. S.M.
