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22/1/2015

Francisco Mantecon

MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Vigo

Curator: Ángel Cerviño & Alberto González Alegre

It is quite significant that even in these early decades of the 21st century, one of the paradigms of historical avant-gardes of the last century — the geometric refinement of shapes — still promotes the most diverse contemporary art practices in traditional media — painting and sculpture — and in the post-minimal and conceptual versions of the misplaced and expanded artistic object. The topicality of Mantecón’s work is out of question here: many young Galician artists — perhaps not fully aware of that line of continuity —, still follow the guidelines so magnificently exposed and developed by the master of geometric abstraction.

Since the very beginning, Mantecón attempts to express the most with the least, and he will continue refining, through each painting, the motives and the resources: "I'm removing elements off the painting, and I am running out of painting!." Tireless explorer of the grid implicit in the canvas, a lifetime was not enough for him to map its microcosm. His legacy is now perhaps more alive than ever, now that, again, winds of crisis watch us from the distance; now that the vocation of synthesis and of returning to the essential seem to prevail in the form of overwhelming needs to the youngest creators, who reopen ways and draw lines of research on the pure geometric materiality of the work, subsequently leading to intertwine in many directions with the paths that once Mantecón subtly outlined.

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MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea
Príncipe 54 | 36202 Vigo Spain
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