SIMEÓN SAIZ RUIZ
2013-02-25Let’s look. Whereas Alberti said that a painting should represent people of all ages and conditions, in my exhibition there will be paintings that span the entire range of possibilities in terms of the nature of the pictures. There are those based on real documents (television images) and those based on fictitious documents (other paintings). There will be pictures taken directly from reality-in their own way, all these pictures are records of something real translated into painting codes-and images that only exist in and of themselves. Fictitious images will be missing.?The absence should stand out noticeably, because I want to address the real, not simulations. I am aware of the important blend of fiction and non-fiction in the art production of recent years, which forces us to take a stand in this regard. My stance is that interpretation of reality is already a fiction. It may address a real world or a fantasy world. Imagination entertains us, but what we need to change is the real world. We can fictionalize it partially so as to make it more habitable and thus use it so as not to see what it is made of, and especially so as not to know how it may change.
There are two series in this space, one that ends and another that begins. The times with their own waves of transformations are what compel the changes. I am not going to dwell on the effects of the economic crisis or the loss of credibility, not to mention the legitimacy, of politics, and the sensation of the dictatorship of capital. The two series blend together in the exhibition and I hope something unique is born of their dialogue.
Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2013
Galería Fúcares Madrid
Calle Doctor Fourquet 28
28012 Madrid
Spain
