Extended until June 14 CHAPMAN vs. GOYA

Goya’s monsters are back. The current war situation has bored much of the overinformed Western society. Two years have passed since the war in Ukraine started, four months since the war in  Gaza and several wars entrenched all over the planet, all news when they affect some specific geo-economic interest. Goya, more than two hundred years ago, was a witness and chronicler of the atrocities of a similar conflict and with his work he stirred the consciences of his contemporaries and future societies. His stark and critical vision remains striking and truthful today. Society needs to rediscover it regularly and that’s what Jake Chapman does in this exhibition.

Goya is a shared obsession. His ability to explore and face universal themes make him one of the most important and personal artists of Western art of all time. He revealed the miseries of a society two centuries ago, not very different from those that ensnare us today. This obsession is shared, on one hand, with the contemporaneity and disturbing reflection of Jake Chapman and, on the other, with the technical genius and iconographic modernity that have always fascinated me. However, this exhibition aims to give another round to the aragonese genius by putting his timeless and universal engravings in dialogue with prints passed through the critical and cynical sieve of Jake Chapman. A rereading of the Caprichos and Desastres de la Guerra updated to the current war situation. Half the world at war while the other half looks the other way. Goya would agree.

This exhibition is the result of the collaboration of Jake Chapman, Gabriel Rolt Violan in Amsterdam and Albert Martí Palau in Barcelona.

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