PEPE ESPALIÚ (Córdoba, 1955 - 1993). Untitled, 1986. Mixed technique on canvas.

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  PEPE ESPALIÚ (Córdoba, 1955 - 1993). Untitled, 1986. Mixed technique on canvas. Measures: 130 x 89 cm; 133 x 91.5 cm (frame). In this canvas we can observe a figure whose head seems to be the reflection or shadow of the forms adopted by his hands, representing the acts of these as a reflection of our Psyche or personality. The head is surrounded by a golden light with reflections of cosmic or golden tones, reflecting the Universe that is each person. The body is formed by the resulting constellation of straight lines that are formed by joining the 12 stars that form it, representing the 12 zodiacal signs where all of us are included. In this work you can appreciate the artist's intention to reflect through this inconcrete character, all of humanity in representation of the complexity of the universe of each person, whose actions are a mirror of his being. Pepe Espaliú's work is characterized by a strong autobiographical component, where the body has a great presence. A body understood as a concept, in which he explored the emptiness, or the idea of prison, of a barrier that delimits. For this reason many of his works, as in this case, allude to isolation, suffering and masks, which allows the viewer to reflect on identity, both personal and collective. Pepe Espaliú was, throughout his career, a multidisciplinary and multifaceted artist: he was interested in painting, but also in sculpture, poetry and performance. He initially trained in Barcelona, later traveling to Paris, where he followed courses taught by the important psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The playwright Jean Genet or the founder of the order of the Giróvagos dervishes, Yalal ad-Din Rumi, would be other important and influential personalities in his artistic work. All his work is concentrated between 1986 and 1993, and despite its brevity, achieved a great international projection, with exhibitions in Amsterdam, Venice, New York and Paris. The exhibitions organized at the Mudéjar Pavilion in Seville, at the ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, and at the MNCARS Nuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid in 1993, after his death, stand out, but this, far from paralyzing him, would give a new and energetic impulse to his work, intensely committed. In 2003 an important retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him in Seville and in 2010 the Pepe Espaliú Art Center was inaugurated in his hometown, Cordoba.
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