Amaya González Reyes
Parra & Romero | Madrid
Can a work of art participate in that which it sets out to criticize without losing legitimacy? In “Una idea brillante y otras historias adorables” (A Brilliant Idea and Other Adorable Stories), Amaya González Reyes takes up this quixotic question, exhibiting a group of pieces that satirically treats certain aspects of contemporary art from a position surprisingly close to the object of her mockery. Almost all these works are made in materials treated to look like gold: a polished bronze pedestal for a sculpture on which its title, Valgo mi peso en oro (I Am Worth My Weight in Gold; all works