Juan Genovés “Recent Paintings”

Marlborough (Midtown)

[Image: Juan Genovés "Turbatium" (2015) acrylic on embroidered canvas mounted on board, 55 1/8 x 86 5/8 in.]

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The Directors of Marlborough Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by the renowned Spanish artist Juan Genovés. Born in Valencia in 1930, Genovés is one of Spain’s best-known contemporary artists. He is recognized for work rooted in Social Realism and Pop with a distinctly critical voice that advocated for political change during the Franco regime in Spain.

Since the 1970s, Juan Genovés has returned to two subjects: the “alone individual” and the “multitude.” Cadmium, 2015 (acrylic on canvas) relates to the artist’s exploration of the multitude, where the collective body of humanity is pulled toward something greater than the individual. Here, his impastoed figures walk en masse either directly toward or away from an unseen force on a painterly, glowing orange ground. Paintings by Genovés depict bird’s-eye views of scenes where no buildings, roads, trees or clues to a common place are visible, thus creating a landscape of humanity in motion.