The CAAC presents Cachito Vallés’ first solo exhibition in a museum. El eterno presente (The Eternal Present) is conceived as a kind of positioning, interval and location, which directly addresses, from experience, the idea of being, of passing through space, of traversing time, of being through contemplation and the experience of inhabiting.
The title is taken from Byung-Chul Han’s essay The Salvation of Beauty, in which beauty is related to time, because “beauty invites us to linger”, when we reach the “eternity of the present”, when “eternity shines like a light that spreads through difference”.
Featuring large installations and structured as a profound reflection on time and its variations, the exhibition establishes constant connections between the scientific and the poetic, an investigation that delves deeply, through the materialisation of the works themselves—and the experience derived from them—into related intangibles such as suspension, latency, presence, interval, and transience.
It is a comprehensive proposal, with a large number of works created specifically for and completed directly in the galleries. It brings together pieces created since 2019, along with eleven new productions, several of which are large-format.
Designed to offer a comprehensive overview of Cachito Vallés’ work and to highlight the main themes of his thinking, it builds on the issues addressed in his previous research to continue developing his career, linked to technological experience from the south.
Visitors are free to explore the rooms at their leisure, which have been designed as a game of symmetries: the first room, dedicated to painting, is mirrored in the room occupied by the pieces entitled Retícula, where “painting” is transformed into installation. In turn, the large red cylindrical piece,