GINO RUBERT, Fatamorgana
The Tecla Sala Art Center inaugurates this coming Wednesday, October 5th, the exhibition "Fatamorgana", by the artist Gino Rubert. The show, curated by Gisela Chillida, is one of the artist's most extensive monographic exhibitions.
In total, more than a hundred works - some unpublished, others from international collections - of which, a good number of pieces on paper, less known but of decisive interest to understand the process creative of the artist.
"Fatamorgana" is a romantic tragicomedy in which the protagonists are changeable fairies, unsuspecting sailors and illusions where glamour, humor and sensuality coexist hand in hand with melancholy.
This exhibition proposes a very open look in which the characteristic collage-paintings dialogue with rarities rescued from the studio and with recent paintings by the artist, while incorporating light and sound.
Until February 26th
The creations of Gino Rubert, Mexican artist, include different disciplines such as romantic writing, a design of impossible clothing pieces, summer hits or performances on stage in which the purpose is always to laugh at oneself.
“The value of a work of art does not depend so much on what it contains but on what it unleashes”, is the firm thought of the author of the exhibition.
The artist Gino Rubert holding his pet in the studio
The title of the exhibition, "Fatamorgana", refers to the optical effect linked to thermal inversion that causes objects on the horizon to take on a floating appearance. It is this point of unreality or strangeness that is so present in Rubert's work that is also decisive in the dialogue that the aforementioned intervening rooms will establish with the viewer and with the works on display.
Gino Rubert: "True Love, 2016"
Exhibition-wise, curator and artist have conspired to intervene in the rooms of the art center and blur the boundaries that separate the interior of the pictorial scene from the environment that physically hosts it.
Gino Rubert: "Empty Gallery II, 2019"
Recently, we were able to see Rubert's work exhibited at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, with the piece "Vanity Fair (an altar without a hero)", a postmodern altarpiece that according to the artist portrays a certain world of art in which they appear artists, collectors, etc. for which he feels admiration or friendship, without any kind of geographical or historical disciplinary order.
"Vanity Fair (an altar without a hero), 2022 at the Museum of National Art of Catalonia"
