Alvaro Alcázar gallery presents the double exhibition Tienen madera, which can be visited from 1 July to 30 July in the gallery space and from 7 to 11 July, a representation of it will be on our booth 7A14 at ARCO. The title chosen Tienen madera is a pun referred, on one hand to wood as the undisputed protagonist of the exhibition and on the other hand, the great talent of the artists here presented.
For ARCO, the gallery has chosen a small representation of the exhibition through five works. Nigel Hall, with a wall sculpture faithful to his style of circular and ovoid forms, uses wood to explore the void, shadows and three-dimensional space. An experienced Rafael Canogar makes his debut with wood as a sculptural material to create one of his famous masks. The painter Kepa Garraza, returns to his historical-political discursive line, this time with a powerful image of a homemade wooden weapon used in the riots in Kiev’s Maidan Square in 2013. The Murcian artist Maru Quiñonero, through the subtle language that characterises her works, evokes the smell of burning wood in her painting. Four ways of understanding wood, from painting and sculpture, which in turn confronts the vision of two young emerging artists with two long- standing artists.