Room 12

3 (5x5 – 1), a work painted by Luis Gordillo in 1981, is an explosion in several senses: compositional, chromatic and thematic. 72 sheets of paper pasted on three boards that explode before your eyes as if it were an asymmetrical kaleidoscope. A highly representative work of the language so characteristic of its author. Like an erupting volcano, imagination and erudition go hand in hand in his personal figuration, both closely associated with an inner reality and far removed from the representation of the outside world.

Opposite it, Anatomy of pleasure, 2017, by Saelia Aparicio, is a sculpture linked to the approaches opened up by less orthodox surrealism and its most disturbing and marginal drifts. Under this apparently anatomical area, biology, sociology and experimentation with unusual materials (resin, glass, plastic, eyeshadow) come together in a complex and ambiguous manner.

Accompanying both is Luis Candelas III, 2014, the work of Fernando García, an enigmatic hanging sculpture with a shape reminiscent of a ceiling lamp. Made of knotted pieces of glass, it lacks light, but requires specific lighting to acquire its full meaning. This game of ambiguities and ambivalence probably holds the interest of a work so open to interpretation and closed to any clear and unequivocal reading.