In
the 3rd century B.C. Sotades de Creta invented the perfect and
spherical palindrom: SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS ( the sower Arepo holds the
wheels carefully)
It
is to be read as you wish: from right to left, from left to right , up and down.
The magic of palindrome is repeated, it is the recreation of that already read.
The writing as the mirror- trap.
Some
years later, Jesús Risueño presents us his etchings on copper plates, of
composition and colour refined in his Improbable Gallery: gallery of possible
portraits of probable characters, visual palindrome where it is reproduced the
magic of deconstruction- reconstruction already seen in an uncertain asymmetry
but feasible of what it could be or, perhaps it is.
The
exhibition contains 16 medium sized engravings ( etchings and aquatints) and
joins different graphic and colour techniques with the methods of “enlightened
“ ( manual painting on the engraving which makes different and unique each of
the pictures). The subject is about the reinterpretation of the classical works
confronted with the plastic languages of the historical
avantgardes of the 20TH century. Those producing a game
between figure and abstraction which tend to provoke different reactions on the
audience. So it happens a series of improbable conjunctions (
Vermeer- Delauny, Ingres- Poliakov, etc) where the portraited characters become
a mere excuse to enjoy the shapes and colours in their multiple variations about
the same subject. The spectator stops, he seems to be worried, he scratches his
head, he steps back and drones: Sator Arepo…
Eustaquio
Lago
Galería CIEC
