Rogelio Lopez Cuenca
Galería Juana de Aizpuru
Leafing through an American magazine in Berlin in 1920, Raoul Hausmann cut out an anonymous face and crowned it with industrial headgear as the protagonist of his photomontage portrait of mechanized man, Tatlin at Home. Armed, as always, with Hausmann’s “invincible weapon”irony—Rogelio Lopez Cuenca returns this image to its common source as a full-color magazine cover in Maison & Tatlin (all works 1990). It is one of a series of poster-size photocompositions based on various European magazine covers, which also includes Walter Benjamin posing for Uomo, and a working-class Maison & Travaux