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Item Number: 135134
Title: PATRICIA GARDEA : Atomic Circus
Author: Torrente, Virginia
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788480265003
Description: Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2014. 26cm., pbk., 178pp. illus. Exhibition catalogue. Spanish text. Summary: Atomic-Circus is the first retrospective devoted to the work of artist Patricia Gadea (Madrid, 1960 – Palencia 2006), a key figure in the revival of Spanish painting in the 1980s and 1990s. Her painting emerged at a time of experimentation with freedom, sheltered by the movida cultural movement in Madrid and an atmosphere of euphoria brought about by democratic change. With links to artists from new figurative art, her work takes on comic elements, used alongside figures from popular culture and images from display advertising, through which she reflects on her own epoch. These elements are altered in her work by using collage techniques to offer a critical vision of reality; or in the words of the artist: "I like the feeling of the moment, the risk in my real history, where complexity can actually be very simple. Speaking ironically about different languages and distorted images”.
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