Guerrero Medina: My Commitment

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Image courtesy of Fundació Vila Casas

Mi compromise (My Commitment) is a solo exhibition of work by Guerrero Medina. Conceived and directed by Antoni Vila Casas and Guerrero Medina, the exhibit brings together almost 200 pieces by the artist and gives emphasis to the most significant works from each of Guerrero Medina’s creative periods. The exhibition is set out in four thematic sections each concerned with the human figure: Art-protest, Exiles, Fragments of Memory, and Painting Velázquez. 

Art-protest presents a selection of works from his early period and includes pieces from the series Procesión de los necios (Procession of Dunces), from the mid-sixties, La silla de la muerte (The Death Chair), dedicated to Salvador Puig Antich (1974), and the work Paredón y fusilamiento (Wall and Execution) (1975). Exiles covers an extensive series offering testimony of the 1939 exodus in which the artist conjures up a regression in order to experience the upheaval and horror of human exodus.

Fragments of Memory is the result of a process of introspection which led the artist to automatically sketch expressive possibility without controlling the narrative, without attempting to salvage images from nostalgic memory and endow them with an evocative form, but let them flow to depict them at a later date on canvas.

Finally, Painting Velázquez includes a series of watercolors of some of the figures that appear in the works of the old master.  Some of them are important characters while others are secondary.  The idea is to award them a central role which they may not have had in the original paintings.

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