Descripción de la Exposición
The notion that Art History is a theoretical and iconographic narrative where its construction - and deconstruction - can and should pass, given by the tension amongst the diverse modes of hegemony that captures its account, was vital for the conception of the exhibition by "Rogelio López Marín, "Gory": Notes for a Retrospective". As such, Aluna Curatorial Collective (Adriana Herrera y Willy Castellanos) makes a merited lengthy homage, to one of the pioneers of contemporary art in Cuba, owner of a vision that is as much personal as irreducible, and whose decisive contribution to art and photography - in the island and in the continent -, deserves to be re-dimensioned.
Composed by paintings, intervened photographs and documentary images belonging to private collections and the archives of the author, the exhibition proposes an anthological study of his work from the intersection of various strategic and conceptual instances: painting as an aesthetic exercise of existential reaffirmation; the practice of photography and the use of the archive as vehicles for articulations of new constructions about the real; and finally Rock music, as an inspiration and source of an artistic practice and a culture of resistance which questioned, in the post revolutionary context, the limitations of freedom of the individual, suggesting alternate paths in the relations between aesthetic, politics and power.
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
