Luis Adelantado Valencia Gallery is pleased to invite you to the next opening of the season of contemporary art galleries in the city of Valencia. On this occasion, we are pleased to introduce as a novelty that from now on the openings of our two spaces; Main Space and Boiler Room, will be simultaneous.
We begin with the presentation in the Main Space of Cartografías del olvido, the second solo exhibition of the artist Oscar Carrasco (Catalonia, 1976) at the gallery.
It can therefore be said that these paintings are made up of successive covers. The mille-feuille resulting from this process is engraved and superimposed with archetypal representations, revealing in its own subtlety a latent abstraction.
In the exhibition, an invisible line is drawn between a multitude of contemporary ruins that extol an outdated modernity. Emblematic buildings that once bore witness to a particular culture, a civilisation, and now become a memory. One more thread that weaves this cartography of oblivion.
There are several axes common to all the images he generates. A certain light that verges on the mystical. A light that becomes the soul of these abandoned urban giants, pierced by silence. Absence is another of the concepts intimately linked to oblivion itself. The lack of human presence directs our gaze towards these places, making them antithetical to those non-places – to which the French anthropologist Marc Augé referred – in a reflection typical of post-modernity. In Oscar’s own words; “I am interested in ruins as a critique of civilisation and the devastating power of human beings, as a reminder of their vanity and failure in the face of time and the environment”.