The Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea brought together under de curatorship of Mariano Navarro, a selection of works that present recent panorama of Rational Abstraction. The exhibition is to update the long journey of abstraction that reaches our days and will soon celebrate a century of his departure. Viewed by the Art History and spectator as a trend that since its inception diverged into two very different ways, the way of immediate expression, spontaneous and direct, and the rule of calculus, the Abstraction is presented today as a living environment, a language with many possibilities.

In the last two decades, trained painters and origin as different as Richard Aldrich (Hampton, USA, 1975), José Loureiro (Manguelde, Portugal, 1961), Nico Munuera (Lorca, 1974) and Juan Uslé (Santander, 1954), worked on the same rationale guideline that supports the common understanding of their works. Independent practice is open to the impulse of abstraction, presented today in the form of selection based on their obvious connections, reaffirming the value and strength of the current paint over the cliche.

With the example of Juan Uslé, whose progressive and simultaneous development of different ways in his work has made him a figure of reference, the exhibition focuses on the survival of newly proposed language based on abstraction. They are artistic ways, in many cases, that establish links with the natural and urban landscape, keeping alive the ability to connect the abstract (rational) with contemporary society. Rational Abstraction can be seen in the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) until May 8. AMP

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