Equipo Cronica
dal 22/1/2007 al 27/4/2007
Segnalato da
22/1/2007
Equipo Cronica
Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani, Palma de Mallorca
Cronicas reales. Around 30 works created between 1969 and 1982 by the duo of Valencian artists. The exhibition is based around the painting The Little Room of 1970 and focuses on the way their paintings interpret, reinvent, analyse and de-codify Velazquez’s Las Meninas, the greatest and most famous work of Spanish Baroque art.
Cronicas reales
Equipo Cronica: Cronicas reales is an exhibition of around 30 works
created between 1969 and 1982 by the duo of Valencian artists Rafael Solbes and Manuel Valdes, collectively known as Equipo Cronica. The
exhibition is based around the painting The Little Room of 1970 and
focuses on the way their paintings interpret, reinvent, analyse and
de-codify Vela'zquez’s Las Meninas, the greatest and most famous work of
Spanish Baroque art, known until the mid-19th century as The Family of
Philip IV.
While Vela'zquez’s celebrated work - the source of inspiration for other
artists such as Picasso and Dali' and the starting-point for philosophical
texts by Ortega y Gasset and Foucault, among others - has been a constant
reference-point in the career of Equipo Cronica, this is the first
exhibition and catalogue to be devoted to Las Meninas within their oeuvre.
Most of the works on display have been loaned from private Spanish
collections, as well as from the Museo Municipal de Arte del Siglo XX,
Casa de la Asegurada, Alicante, and the Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani,
Fundacio'n Juan March, Palma. The techniques used by the two artists range
from oil, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, gouache on card and painting
on papier mache' and polyester.
Through Las Meninas, Equipo Cronica subtly play with and provoke new
readings of the figures in the original painting, its space and
composition, expressed through an ironic discourse of decontextualisation
in which references to other artists, movements and trends repeatedly
appear. The use of quotation and iconographic reference - one of Pop Art’s
most important procedures - are used by Equipo Cro'nica to bring the great
masters of art into our own time.
With Equipo Cronica: Cronicas reales the Fundacion Juan March continues
its ongoing analysis of its own collections through the organisation of
exhibitions based on a recurring subject or motif to be found in the work
of a particular artist or group. This was the case with the exhibitions
Chillida, In praise of hands (2003), Gordillo Duplex (2004-2005), and
Saura, Damas (2003), shown in the Museo de Arte Abstracto Espanol in
Cuenca and the Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani in Palma, both part of
the Fundacio'n Juan March. The exhibition Saura, Damas, was shown in a
larger version in the Juan March’s exhibition space in Madrid in 2005.
Created in late 1964, Equipo Cronica initially comprised three Valencian
artists: Manolo Valde's (born 1942), Rafael Solbes (1940-1981) and Joan
Antoni Toledo (1940-1995). The latter left the group in the year it was
founded, leaving Solbes and Valdes, until Solbes’s death in 1981.
Opening: 23 January 2007
Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani
Sant Miquel, 11 - Palma de Mallorca
Visiting hours: Monday-Friday: 10 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m.- 2 p.m. Sunday/Holiday: Closed.
Entrance is free