Dear Friends,
It is a great pleasure for me to write a few words of introduction to this admirable exhibition that represents the new Spain and what is going on in the Spanish contemporary art field.
In particular, let me point out the individual artists who have been chosen to be represented in this show, Javier Arce, María Cañas, Óscar Carrasco, Carles Congost, Ángel Hernández Tuset, Cristina Lucas, Pablo Pérez Sanmartín and Fernando Sánchez Castillo, all born between 1970 and 1980 and forming a part of the new generation that has revolutionized Spanish art.
These artists reflect different aspects of the art world in which they review the past in order to analyze the future. The artists concentrate on expressing ideas over the importance of material objects. It is this specific focus that has caught the eye of international art critics, museums, galleries and the general public.
These artists are now included in most major art fairs such as Art Basel and ARCO (the International Fair of Contemporary Art). I sincerely hope that you take as much enjoyment out of viewing these remarkable young people as I have.
Jorge Dezcallar de Mazarredo
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Ambassador of Spain to the United States of America
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Pablo Pérez Sanmartín is noted for his style eminently pop. He works with very different means such as serial digital drawings, digital projections, inflate sculptures, T-shirts editions, stickers, commercial polyptychs… all of them with apparently soulless. But over this superficial emptiness, Pablo reflects about strong subjects. The banality of life, the aesthetics mutation and the futility of pop trends are some recurrent topics in his work. His aesthetic is influenced by music culture, B movies, advertising language, design and the teenager subcultures.
Ironically, “Democracy Rules” recovers the languages of design and advertising to reflect and react against the consumer society. Using the same weapons than capitalism, the artist fights against the idiosyncrasies of the contemporary society subjugated to the excessive and superfluous consumerism. His work is stripped of any trace of the author's work and creates his own corporative brand as identity image.
2006
Lamba print on aluminium
39.4in x 27.6in
2006
Lamba print on aluminium
39.4in x 27.6in
2006
Light box, aluminium,
methacrylate and print on vinyl
33.5in x 43.3in x 6.7in
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