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“DERRIERE LE VIRIDIEN” RUBÉN RODRIGO 2020
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“Derriere le Viridien 10”, Rubén Rodrigo Silguero 2021
Oil on canvas
Measurements: W 180 x D 146 cm
“Rubén Rodrigo's work is a direct heir to the modernist tradition, understood as a process of purification of what is not substantial to the pictorial medium (that is, imitation or the literary). Starting from the division established by Lessing between space arts and arts of time, the critic Clement Greenberg built a sense of modernity linked to the specificity of the medium, which would be reflected in the abstract expressionists of the 1950s. These, in their search for a purely visual experience, hypothetically would be beyond the narrative, the time and, therefore, the time of life. In his rereading of that canonical modernism, Rubén Rodrigo also attends to the achievements that were devalued: for example, the symbolic intention, the stage presence, the record of time or the transcendental dimension of the image. He also works with diptychs, polyptychs or extensive series, an option with which he dislodges the apparently insurmountable imperative of the "last painting" represented, for example, by Ryman's white paintings or Reinhardt's black ones.
In his latest projects, abstract appropriation allows him to hold an interpretive exercise on various chapters of the tradition, from a humble position and open to constant discovery. Thus, El Greco is interested in looking at what constitutes his extravagant rarity, and that will be the subject of numerous historical and critical reviews, especially since Cossío's controversial monograph in 1908. Among his modern fidelities, American Abstract Expressionism and other nearby poetics are inescapable references, as is (neo) figurative painting. by Francis Bacon. "
