Espronceda presents
“Galería de Retratos”
by Spanish artist JUAN SALIQUET
Opening on Thursday 6th of April, 7:30 pm.
Exhibition from 7th to 18th of April, 2017.
Juan Saliquet exhibits in Barcelona his show “Galería de Retratos” (Gallery of Portraits). After a three-year tour across Germany, Switzerland, and Austria with multiple exhibitions, he showed at the Urg3l gallery in Madrid and now arrives at the Espronceda Space in Barcelona.
Throughout his career, Juan Saliquet has cultivated an approach to the body through the portraits he photographs and cuts, while experimenting with volume. The artist sections his work to remove the image from its flat context and transform it into a three-dimensional piece. Through the modification of the figure, Saliquet provides his work with a light that reminds us of the paintings of the Italian Quattrocento.
Madrid native and globetrotter, Juan Saliquet presents for the first time at Espronceda his Gallery of Portraits — contemporary creations inspired by classical portraiture. These are works where the geometry of his incisions transforms images into sculptures of multiple visions, and where each piece becomes an installation in its own right that plays an essential role within Espronceda’s industrial space. This sensual and scarified aesthetic transcends the period in which it was created, adapting to every interpretation we choose to grant it.
After three years touring Europe with his pieces, Saliquet returns to Spain and exhibits his photography in Madrid and Barcelona, where he reveals his unconventional approach to a body of work in constant transformation and movement.
Maribel Navarro
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