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RAFAEL LÓPEZ-BOSCH

"The good times are killing me"
("Los buenos tiempos me matan")

12th of June until the 24th of September (August closed)

The Fucarés art gallery Almagro presents Rafael López-Bosch (Madrid, 1980) first one man show tittled "Los buenos tiempos me matan" ("The good times are killing me"). The artist invites us to reflect in a transgressor manner on maters that are in some cases complex "It is important to laugh at yourself, using humour allows the realise of tension and we can see things in a different perspective".

The artist's parting ground and indicate to establish a common reference is that which could be understood as sheared reality; the physical mater that surrounds us and escapes any philosophical interpretation as it is sheared physically by all.
It would be complicated to establish any interaction with anyone if within are own individual reality we were unable to establish links that escape any interpretation and were not physically sheared by all.

Gathering the uncommon, allowing everything to fall in to place, mixes, breaks, bonds, transforms up-to-the-minute, something unexpected, in this process the work acquires its own language and the objects that form it acquires a new life. We are not faced with a narrative that's literal. The pieces enclose within a complex language that parts with the ordinary throw the use of imagery and materials that are accessible to any one, this creates a nexus throw which the artist identifies with his time. The use of familiar images and materials draws up lines of narrative that the viewer can identifies with. The dialog is established and is able to conclude the narrative by using the imagination as all the components are found in front of him, similar to the game "scrabble", we have all the letters and they have to be put in place to create words.

Rafael López-Bosch started his artistic career in England where he attended college at Central St. Martins and Camberwell College Of Arts; This British influences and it's perspicacious humour are evident in his work. At an early stage in the artists carrier he was introduced to Joseph Voice's work, in conceptual art Rafael has found a way to express his political restlessness. Far from taking political sides, the artist deals with the problems arising from a society were it does not mater whoever is in charge, the real interest is the essence of what it is that leads us to try to control all that is around us.

The show is organised throw a number of series that relate to each other. The first sequence, a number of drawings under the name "Who killed Mickey Mouse" ("Quién mató a Mickey Mouse"), were protagonists from the Disney factory shear the limelight with world known personalities. In this works a set of geometrical figures is emphasized in relation of some kind to the process of learning, referencing the replacement in traditional moral values.

"Gods Creatures" (Criaturas de Dios) Are the names given by the artist to a set of sculptures were animals are made from different parts of other animals. These installations arise as results of the manipulation of are surroundings and the fears of are actions as a society. Human creations or natures heritage? The mad cow disease, the bird flu, swine flu... are this founded preoccupations or simple social hysteria? Huge illnesses that we supposed to change are world.

Later we come a cross "Economist in hardship" (Los economistas en apuros), Exquisite drawings that in a humorous and simple way make parody of the present economical situation, throw questions like, who took the money? How to get to work? O who will keep the house?;

After reflecting on López-Bosch's work we come to the conclusion that creating and art that includes political themes does not mean you have to be claiming in protest, repetitive messages are tiring, posters and slogans are lost in time and were ingenuity comes, one has to be up-to-date with the language with which we can identify throw the years.

Placido Newark, Sevilla 2010.

Image:
Rafael López-Bosch
"HAPPY SUCKER! SUCKER! ", 2010
Mixed Media

80 x 100 x 170 cm
Courtesy of Galeria Fucares, Madrid | Almagro

Galeria Fucares Almagro
San Francisco, 3
13270 Almagro
Spain
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