08 Lun, Jun
Alberto Bañuelos’ Cruce de culturas (Crossroads of Cultures) painting and sculpture exhibition
VALENTÍN PALENCIA HALL OF THE BURGOS CATHEDRAL (C/Diego Porcelos)
FROM 8 JUNE TO 5 JULY
10.30 A.M. TO 2 P.M. AND 4.30 P.M. TO 7 P.M.
FREE ENTRANCE (LIMITED CAPACITY)
‘Crossroads of Cultures’ presents 15 paintings that have pure cotton as their common material; a tapestry made in Afghanistan, of wool and bamboo silk; and three stone sculptures, of granite and marble. This exhibition synthesizes the intention that has guided the artist’s career since the mid-1980s: to investigate the accumulation of religions, philosophies, knowledges and images that have accompanied civilization throughout its history and that have determined our lives.
In addition to cotton, Bañuelos uses ethylene-vinyl acetate (foamy), tar and wood to give shape to contemporary paintings depicting Romanesque windows, Arabic lattices, Christian loopholes, signs of demotic writing and tenacious palaeography.
These materials are twinned with large deconstructed boulders that greet the visitor on the ground and evoke the heads of fallen warriors.
Alberto Bañuelos Fournier (Burgos, 1949)
Alberto Bañuelos is the winner of the Castilla y León Prize for the Arts (2012) and an academic of the Fernán González Institution. In 1985 he received an honourable mention at the 17th Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Cádiz and in 1999 he won the Mariano Benlliure sculpture prize from the Madrid City Council.
His works can be found in institutions such as the IVAM (Valencian Institute of Modern Art), the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Madrid or the Museum of Human Evolution. Also internationally at the Plastic Art Centre of Carrara (Italy), Asdod (Israel), Changchun (China) and Quebec (Canada).
He has exhibited individually on numerous occasions in Mexico, including at the National Museum of Anthropology and History, twice at the ARCO fair, at the IVAM, which dedicated a retrospective to him, and in galleries in Madrid, Seville and Paris.
In group exhibitions, his works have travelled halfway around the world: Argentina, Austria, Brazil, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden and the United States.