Carles Gabarró: The Fragility of Painting in the Age of Fast Food

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Carles Gabarró (Barcelona, 1956) has developed his artistic creation ceaselessly over the course of four decades, from the eighties to the present day. The Fragility of Painting in the Age of Fast Food highlights his determined commitment to material painting, and Gabarró's iconography characterized by an almost obsessive repetition of themes, objects and compositions; the constant mutation of different motifs, in a kind of multiform transformation of those same objects, seems to be the passage towards something else that never comes into being. Gabarró’s painting reveals to us a perspective on sameness and difference, on that which always remains the same and that which is ever-changing, and it manages to achieve it in a single move, almost in a single gesture.

This exhibition expresses his unique journey and highlights the different stages of the artist’s creative work, laid out in four thematic areas: Magma (1995-1996), Libraries (2006-2024), Factories (2009-2015) and Beds (2013-2024) with works from the eighties, alongside more recently-created pieces. The paintings from different periods seek tension through diverse iconographic and compositional analogies developed throughout by Gabarró’s distinctive way of working in his painting.

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