ZURDO CARIBBEAN
“Nothing but reality”.
Opening on Thursday 25 January at 18h.
Exhibition until 22 March 2024.
“I am not very good at inventing worlds, so I draw my inspiration from my experiences”.
It would be very simple to summarise the content of Zurdo’s (Caracas, 1985) pictorial work in this way, but in order to truly evaluate his studio work it is necessary to analyse his figure first.
If he is one of the most visible faces of the Caribes collective, it is, among other things, thanks to his artistic ability that makes him stand out in different creative facets: from the most hardcore graffiti to illustration or portraiture, regardless of format or tool; sprays, paint, charcoal, ink… A potential that Zurdo tries to express in his studio work to explain with subtle romanticism the stories of his experience as a graffiti writer, as a traveller, as an immigrant.
His works are made up of a set of remnants, in a realistic style, torn like his own memories and shuffled with expressive elements that vindicate the strength of the gesture and the action of painting.
In addition to concentrating the plastic emotion of urban adventures with their own symbolism, Zurdo’s works encode a series of stories that, through images and conceptual coincidences, speak about the most important issues for the artist: from graffiti and art, to society and conscience.
The direct impact on our sensibility is only the most superficial layer of a work constructed on different aesthetic and narrative levels, reflecting an absorbing and multifaceted reality. A work to remember in an exhibition that we will not forget either.