Pablo Genovés
Precipitados

Opening:
Friday 28th of may, 19.00

Exhibition:
28 of may – 24 of july 2010                                                                                                          

GALERÍA JM
Duquesa de Parcent, 12. E - 29001 Málaga.
Telf./Fax: 952 216 592
galeriajm.com

Timetable:
Monday to friday:11,00 to 13,30 nad 18,00 to 21,00 h.
Saturdays: 11,00 to 13,30 h.

Pablo Genovés
Rey Sol. 2010 Digigraphie sobre papel baritado.
96 x 122 cm. Ed. 3

JM Gallery takes on a new project by Pablo Genovés, where this artist bases his new theme on large and mythical scenes that belong to our western culture.

In this new series, under the name of precipitados (precipitates), the artist leaves behind the image as an object and continues along an experimental line of work, from which he explores the image’s appropriation, manipulation and intervening procedures, which we saw in his previous series Extravíos, Sucedáneos and Viaje interior –all of these previously presented in JM Gallery- and where the artist took on concepts such as memory, consumerism and desire.

After visiting numerous markets in Berlin, Madrid and Barcelona and tracking down thousands of nineteenth century postcards, Genovés uses cultural icons such as libraries, theatres, museums and temples to create new characterized scenes, invaded by the apocalyptic action of nature, in the form of floods, freezes or desertification.

Beautiful prints, which in the past were postcard memories, are now filled with social lecture comprised of the current big worries. Spaces that have been transgressed by the devastating actions of our era, the artist locating these before the viewer as new spaces habitable for reflections regarding the crisis of cultural values which is affecting the contemporary society. Symbols of a culture in decadence or perhaps the premonition of being at the end of a golden era.

Pablo Genovés (Madrid, 1959) lives between Madrid and Berlin. He started his pictorial formation at the Art Students League of New York, and then further on, starting courses of the cibachrome and screen-printing techniques at the Camden Arts Centre, both of these in London. Afterwards, he courses studies of colour and painting at the Islington Arts Centre and also attends courses and activities of the Photographer’s Club and of the Camera Work Centre of Photography in London. It is in this city where he initiates his first exhibitions to continue in Europe and in USA. He has represented Spain in many international festivals and his works have been publicised in more than a hundred catalogues and magazines. There are various books edited about his work and he is present in many public and private collections in Europe and USA.