PINTURAS Y DIBUJOS 2021-2023. Juan Carlos Lázaro

Painting seems to disappear as a plastic creation. It is the result of a long process, which was announced with the destruction of the human figure and the decomposition of forms by Picasso and Braque, followed by Marcel Duchamp’s fountain and the simple presentation of any object of everyday reality, without any mystery – the main mystery is to discover it in the most everyday -, to end with the search for provocation or the selection of objects from the real world seen in the most banal way. At the same time, other tendencies developed which, by different routes, distanced painting from the painting away from the valid testimony of the beings and things that surround us. There have been different reactions to these negative both realist and abstract, which, with a few exceptions, have failed to discover that painting, in a world undergoing a transcendental transformation, is still alive.