Wayne Gonzales in Spain

Malaga’s Contemporary Art Center presents its dynamic and diverse program, which offers –connoisseur viewers as well as the community–always-surprising experiences.

This time, it’s all about the first exhibition to be carried out in Spain by North American Wayne Gonzales, an excellent opportunity to admire his stylistic versatility, as it includes almost abstract artworks as well as the artist’s acclaimed images of crowds.

“Art itself is political,” Gonzales has expressed several times. For Fernando Frances, director of MalagaCAC and curator of the exhibition: “The allusions to the mystery, political conspiracies, as well as power dynamics are impudently unveiled in every painting with certain obsession by the painter in terms of imperiously showing his intentions. The dark backgrounds are often the framework, the stage where Gonzales builds the mystery, a story that, just as it were taken from a cops or black movie script, possesses an emotional charge located in specific details of the painting.”

Gonzales grew up in New Orleans, paid much attention to the investigation on Kennedy assassination, and was particularly interested in the story of the main person indicted, Lee Harvey Oswald. In fact, he has devoted part of his work to rebuild this individual. He moved to New York in the late 1980s, and began his work as artist from the points of view of photography and document, tangential and directly tackling the most significant events of the last five decades.

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Source: Press release