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“We have arrived at the beginning of the end and we´ve lost our delight in ideas. “Precipitados” is a contained, almost hopeful apocalypse. We are still in time to change things”

Pablo Genovés. Extract from an interview in the ABC Arts Supplement nº 922.

 

(Precipitados) Time's Alchemy

¯Only the sudden bursting in of nature can liberate an image of its own lie, contradict its eternal validity

In Genovés′ images the World -which we think we inhabit- seems to have been destroyed some time ago. The only thing left is a representation: its appearance, its shape and its reflections but no humanity. Thus the violent arrival of nature can no longer take any life. However, it could perhaps return it.

Culture conquered by nature, or nature imprisoned within culture? In Pablo Genovés′ images the struggle between both is eternal and it is no longer obvious which is attacking which. The fight for space results in scenes of destruction, the end of an era with airs of catastrophe that are so relevant today. At the same time these images proceed from a pre-existent reality: old images which the artist rescues and transforms, liberating the photographic image from its eternal validity and equipping the elements of the past with a new ability to stir up memories.

"Times Alchemy" proposes a farewell journey to everything that represented our past achievements. The physical destruction of these spaces is no more than the materialisation of an earlier destruction -current and ours-, the signs of which are as shaky and ambiguous as the truth found in postcards from a by-gone era.

Lucia Carballal

 

“Little by little Pablo Genovés´ work has imposed its own personal and unique stamp on contemporary Spanish photography. In his photographs he catches something more than mere images. Behind the smooth, shiny surface there lies a rich, personal and dreamlike vision of memory”

Etract from the magazine EXIT nº 35

 

“Since he began his artistic venture Pablo Genovés has pursued the achievement of images capable of combining a visually stunning piece with the discredited reality that it represents.

His primary motives were to recuperate a certain sentimental memory ­ which over time has developed into a rectification of the original memory. From the instrumentalisation of the memory a representation of the present has appeared which is entirely false and which reveals the reality of events. It is in this wherein lies the wealth of this exhibition “Precipitados” which is the most complete of all his exhibitions to date.”

Mariano Navarro El Mundo , El Cultural

 

“(Precipitados) suggests the idea of something terrible which is about to happen, something which will radically transform our traditional relationship with knowledge”

Miguel Cereceda, ABC Cultural supplement.

 

“(Precipitados) alerts the spectator to the disproportionate rush of our times which stops us from savouring the present and learning from the past.”

Javier Díaz Guardiola, ABC Cultural Supplement.

 

“In this exhibition, the ruins are part of an exceptional beauty. Precipitados is an exhibition about the permanence of memories (…) and incorporates the paper the photograph is printed on into a document.

The expert eye of this photographer from Madrid reconverts images into snippets of history”

Carlos García Osuna, La Vanguardia.

 

One of the most outstanding members of Spanish photography.

Javier Memba, El Mundo.