INAUGURATION:

Friday, 3 February 2006, 20:00 hrs.

From the beginning on interested in the technology applied to the visual arts, the sciences and the humanism, José Carlos Casado has investigated the new virtual identity, developing a creative work, based in the questioning of the artificial reproduction and cloning of humans.

"Fuera de serie" (extraordinary) is the title of this new exposition which GalerÌa JM presents in its rooms in different forms (video, photography and sculpture) and which the artist divides into two series: "newbody" and "Agnus Dei". The first one corresponds to the continuity of his last work. The space of his representations seams to be populated by strange and sensual beings which experiment mutated relations following the rhythm of a ritual dance, which suggests the series reproduction and the dismantling of the individual identity. The clone bodies of this work multiply their number but remain identical, turned into a new collective body enveloping the spectator with uncountable questions about the ways the technology is affecting the human culture.

In his new series "Agnus Dei" José Carlos Casado connects with Newbody, now worrying about contemporary global conflicts and their perverse way to take control. He reflects on the American empireís claim of control and economic as well as military domination, with the resulting appropriation of resources and preservation of the global supremacy over that other part of the world the oriental - that threatens to develop its big potential on all fronts. Using a critical and ironic tone, the artist allegorises the redemption showing the sacrifice of the mythic superman come down: Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. "Agnus Dei", based in a painting by Caravaggio with the same title, composed by the picture of a lamb prepared for the sacrifice. This original series represents the American hero mortified, presented as ridiculous redeemer, sent to realise absurd missions in landscapes and sceneries of Asia, whose threat to turn into the next superpower is impending. A sarcastic political comment directed at the future from the closest present and presented on the blurred border between the fictitious and the real which characterises the complex work of Casado.