WILL SUSTAINED
(A look at the new drawing in Spain)
Director: Guillermo Martín Bermejo
Exposure: 1 June / July 27, 2024
The artist Guillermo Martín Bermejo (Madrid, 1971), to whom the gallery Fernández-Braso devoted to a show in may 2023, has selected 12 artists who have made this drawing, if not his primary way of expression itself one of the main.
The title of the exhibition, “The willingness sustained”, he alludes to a concept that Paul Valéry dedicated to Degas in the book “Even I learn (Fifteen episodes on drawing)” (Editorial Alba, 2023) of the antique dealer and gallery owner Artur Ramon (Barcelona, 1967).
The selection of artists −of between 27 and 42 years, representative of a significant part of the Spanish geography− and the set of selected works is not intended to pontificating, or be a reflection of a landscape or reality, that is, of course, more extensive and complex than the sample that we present. Aims to assess, to publicize or highlight the work of a number of creators who express themselves through drawing, through different media, and that reflects or explores themes or ideas which are still in force: the love, the beauty, the dreams, the time, the intimacy, the nature, the machine, the mythology...
Irene Anguita, José Casas, María Chaves Gil Gijón, Manuela J. Tabares, Silvia Lermo, Jan Matthews, Pepa Mora, Guillermo Peñalver, Martin Supercolores, Lucia Tello and Faber Tranchida constitute, in the words of Guillermo Martín Bermejo (GMB) “a very personal view to the drawing that is now in our country. It is an apostolate, twelve artists, very close to me. It is an exhibition sentimental as it could be another way to talk about your drawing. All the artists exhibited are younger than me, some very young. As he writes, Manuel Astur are in the time of burn...”
The catalogue of the exhibition, which will be published both on paper and in digital format, will complement the exhibition bringing together some of the work which will be presented by the artists, accompanied by texts written for the occasion by the GMB, for whom “to these superb artists, we are faced with a timeless beauty, a beauty which is not exempt from criticism, search close of a truth, that you can, if the viewer is left, to reach a truly global”.
The exhibition will be opened on Saturday, 1 June, between 12 and 14.30 hours, and it will count with the presence of the commissioner and of the artist involved.