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Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo

Kepa Garraza

Power

In this show, Kepa Garraza presents almost ten portraits of some of the most highlighted political icons of all time. The aim of this project is, as the artist himself explains, to analyze the relationships between art and power through history, displaying a visual timeline of images showing the viewer how art has always worked under the shadow of political power. This close relationship between art and power seems to be a constant until the early twentieth century, when the avant-garde erodes this union on behalf of the autonomy of art. However, this process of breaking with the interests of the apparatus of power has proved to be a chimera. Nowadays the concept of propaganda has changed to more sophisticated forms but it still works in a fully functional way.

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20 APR 2024