This is the first major retrospective exhibition of works by visual artist and poet Rogelio López Cuenca (b. Nerja, 1959). Going, Reading, Making Room is a tour of his different projects addressing issues such as contemporary migratory policy, historical memory, post-colonial criticism, and the instrumentation of art and culture to promote processes of urban speculation.
Curated by museum director Manuel Borja-Villel, the show combines paintings, photography,
videos, installations and large-scale photographs intervened with oil. There is even a reproduction of a souvenir shop, a compendium of items compiled by the artist in his search
to portray how neoliberalism has transformed everything from great works of art to historical figures into brands, and thus into emblems of pecuniary value. These creations are
part of an artistic investigation into language that recurrently looks into how hegemonic
narratives are constructed.
Manolo Borja
