CRISTÓBAL GABARRÓN. Recent work.

The temporary rooms of el Museo Fundación Cristóbal Gabarrón introduces an exhibition of the latest works from the artist’s studio in Valladolid. Eight sculptures from the “Impaled” series and more than two dozen paintings comprise the exhibition that occupies rooms 2 and 3 of el MFCG.

Curator:                       Julio Cesar García Rodríguez                                             

Organizer:                   Fundación Cristóbal Gabarrón   

Works:                         8 sculptures and 27 paintings on fiber

Location:                     Rooms 2 and 3 of el MFCG                                

Hours:                         Monday to Friday: 9:30 am - 2:30 pm                                

Information:                info@gabarron.org 

In recent years, el MFCG of Valladolid dedicates one of their annual temporary exhibitions to the artist’s most recent work, a great opportunity to approach both the latest sculptural creations, as well as the pictorial output from his studio and by means of the willingness to follow the pulse of changes and developments in his personal artistic style.

Series such as “Rectangular” or “Inner Landscape” show the painter’s constant experimentation with the contemporary media of the fiberglass. Previously, the “Circular” series, displayed in the museum in 2011, began to show how it squeezed out most of the peculiarities of the fragile and resistant fiberglass. The texture becomes an integral part of the work, material, and pigment, creating an intimate dialogue resulting in works filled with great visual expressiveness, which invite the viewer to an ever-changing observation, according to the lighting and the point of view chosen.

Imagination and abstraction are two concepts that naturally alternate and on occasion, co-exist in order to achieve the maximum creative expressiveness. On this occasion, “Rectangular” approaches an imaginative vision of facts, realities, or recent social events that Gabarrón wants to highlight, in a formation of voracious obscurity as in the work “Born from Pain”, placing painterly sculptures as in “Positioning”, or making reference to his present fears in “My Demons”. Together with them, in an ongoing dialogue, the sculptures from the “Impaled” series constitute a set of dimensions and surfaces, black outlines that simulate the edges and polychromatic features that simulate the painting surface, the duality of types and formats for similar expressions, from scars and scratches resulting from the creative rupture, which is necessary to give rise to new life; the creation coming after the Big Bang.

Lastly, “Inner Landscape”, a comprehensive series in square format, occupies the third room of el MFCG, a journey into the artist’s creative concept, where the abstraction of color is using itself to instill in the viewer a symphony of heavy pigments and bursts of color, resulting in visual reflection of the more personal emotions and sensations of the artist, twenty moments of sanity, insanity, and reflection.

Julio César García Rodríguez