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Laboratorio de Arte Joven, LAB, under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, welcomes 'Memento Mori', an exhibition that reviews the idea of death.
The exhibition, launched today by its author, the painter Juan José Martínez Murcia is composed of 14 works on canvas and was opened at 20:30 hours at the LAB, where it remains until the 29th of July.
The artist takes as its starting point the allegorical image of the skull to face the contemporary subject with his flesh, with the ephemeral nature of life and death itself, in a world where pain is influenced by the media.
The exhibition, which deals with great attention to the plasticity of paint, is divided into two series.
In the first, see images of skulls of large format and the second, a succession of small parts that make up the self-portrait stripped of skin and the skull appears after the portrait.
Martinez reviews the approaches characteristic of the Baroque era in terms of vanitas and representations of death.
Thus 'Memento Mori' ('You're going to die') is often used to identify a common theme in art and literature, which is the transience of life.
According to the artist, the Western world interested hidden by images of disease or decay, which only deals through curiosity and the show away from the reflection that should accompany them.
The body wants to show is real and ephemeral, not the immortal splendor of advertising campaigns.
Juan José Martínez holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Murcia and has participated in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally, as Vila Casas Foundation in Barcelona, Fundación Rodríguez Acosta, Granada or Rome Sant Andrea Casale .
Source: CARM
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