Galerie Denise René
ARCOmadrid 2019

Known worldwide as the historical gallery of geometric abstraction, kineticism and Op Art, the gallery Denise René represents this artistic trend since its founding after the war. With absolute fidelity to its artistic line, it has supported all the esthetic developments and all the advances till today. For its participation at ARCO, the gallery wishes to offer to collectors and visitors of this great international event for contemporary art, a proposal, with twenty works, of a very condensed and selective course of history of the trend it represents from 1950 to 2018.

Once again, with a view to represent the geometrical abstraction and the kinetism the exhibition project of Gallery Denise René for the 2019 edition of Arco consists in showing the three generations starting by historical artists : Vasarely, Cruz-Diez, Soto, Agam, Equipo 57, Megert then appeared a second generation around the year 70’s / 80’s with Gordillo, Macaparana, Paternosoto, Kujasalo, Perez-Flores, Blanchet & Claisse. Finally, since more than ten years the aim of the galleries is to show that a new generation of artists has matured and succeed to propose something new, this contemporary generation is composed by Crespin, Pe Lang, Ullrich, Ferro …

The careful choice of artworks and the selection of artists presented in this project constitutes, for the visitor, the keys to a synthetic reading allowing them to trace 70 years of artistic creation. They act as so many references, marking out an esthetic history of an exemplary coherence. How the present of this contemporary creation inserts itself into this historical reference curriculum? Through which channels does this powerful legacy continues to inspire the creation of today and how the forms of expression are renewed? What mediums and what technologies will use the art of tomorrow ? These are the questions that the exhibition on the booth of Gallery Denise René intends to address.