Art Of The Day Weekly
#246 - from 16 February 2012 to 22 February 2012
Pablo Genovés, Cronología del ruido, methacrylate on C-print, 50 x 65 cm. Courtesy galerie Pilar Serra, Madrid
The apocalypsis, Pablo Genovés version
MADRID - We immediately think of the library of Sarajevo, with bomb holes, or of old photos of devastated museums during World War II, in which GI’s respectively consult precious books, their feet deep in rubble. With one difference, the images presented by Pablo Genovés (born in 1959), a photographer mad for collages, are only views of the mind. His cathedrals, naves, golden theatres and palatial rooms are only virtually in ruins, in flames, or flooded by tormented waters (as in the series «Precipitados»). But the effect is remarkable and these failed apocalypses are true «memento mori»: this is what the end of a civilization, ours, could look like …
• Pablo Genovés, Cronología del ruido at the Pilar Serra gallery (Almagro 44, Madrid) until 17 March 2012.