Joaquín Jesús Sánchez

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  picks October 12, 2018

  Alfredo Rodríguez

  With “Body Building,” Alfredo Rodríguez continues his long-standing photographic exploration of the human form. This exhibition contains two types of work. First, torn photographs of what look like limbs, muscles, and joints are adhered to panels of wood and coated in a highly protective, hard matte resin to create large-scale collages. The delicate, crystal-like reflective surfaces from previous exhibitions, such as “Limbo” (2016), are nowhere to be found here. Instead, one observes the artist’s investigation into how fragile materials such as paper and processes such as silver gelatin can be

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  picks July 11, 2018

  Beatriz González

  Anyone who happened to have heard the story behind the series “Los suicidas del Sisga” (The Sisga Suicides), 1965, would have been intrigued: Two young religious fanatics in love drowned themselves in the Sisga Dam to keep from falling into sins of the flesh. It’s telling that, ignoring the event, what struck Beatriz González was the clumsiness of newspapers’ reproduction of the couple’s image—the excessive and grainy flatness of their smiling faces, the overall lack of detail.

  This curiosity toward mass-produced images—their aesthetics, their political and affective clout—unites the strategies

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  picks April 19, 2018

  Vítor Mejuto

  For centuries, the education of painters revolved around scrutinizing masterpieces in order to grasp how their makers resolved problems of a purely technical nature. No one looks at painting as mercilessly, and with as little sense of metaphor, as a painter. In “Pintor en la corte,” (Painter in the Court), Vítor Mejuto revisits Diego Velázquez, Antonello da Messina, Jaime Serra, Francisco Goya, and Titian, among others. Mejuto’s small-format paintings are concise and honed, to say nothing of elegant, reproductions of the geometric aspects of some of those masters’ works.

  Despite its schematic