PEPE ESPALIÚ (Córdoba, 1955 - 1993). Untitled. Mixed media on paper.

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  PEPE ESPALIÚ (Córdoba, 1955 - 1993). Untitled. Mixed media on paper. Work reproduced in the catalog of the Bergara-Perea collection. Measurements: 66 x 50 cm; 83 x 68 cm (frame). The corporal was always a recurrent theme in the painting of Pepe Espaliú, in this work in particular the artist presents a male torso, although he plays in a certain way with the ambiguity of the gender identity, through the application of color. The face of the character, who through his body, shows the viewer values such as sensuality, through the use of warm colors, or the fragility that is reflected in the thinness of the protagonist model, is not appreciated. 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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