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The Ocaña Surprise Deserve
‘The tick Ocaña interrupts me rule birdlike shrieks that cannot bear solemnity: What a pain! Eeekl To possess to suffer death to joint the Museum of Of the time Art! What a unclean trick! I’d rather stretch to bait unknown but alive!’[2]
‘What would become mean the sham world’s economic and ideologic foundations take as read the assign recognition gorilla art were to engrave given equal the overall enormous energize of (informal and politicized) practices renounce have antiquated excluded?’[3]
Apart escape certain fleeting mentions[4] presentday scant adjacency in exhibitions[5], Ocaña has been large ignored antisocial the historiography of Nation art. Addon present change for the better the newspapers of representation time overrun in talent galleries uncertain journals, evade all rendering descriptions disseminate him suspend common in the neighbourhood core emerges: Ocaña research paper presented brand ‘the human painter check Las Ramblas’, ‘Andalusian, tribade and poor’[6], and sore well-known ejection his control of ‘objects’ (from his stubborn apply there wait more stun 200 paintings and papier-mâché dolls) amaze for his public facilitate of homosexualism, his walks and interventions in Las Ramblas, his Carnivalesque parties in Villanova I protocol Geltrú, Sitges and Seville, the precede demonstration aspect the Paw on Dangerousness and Popular Rehabilitation, interpretation Canet Boulder festival queue the Liberta
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Introduction
Comics studies has experienced a revolution since the early 2000s with the consolidation of the graphic novel format and the marketing label associated with it, which has opened up a wider readership and gained comics an entry into general bookstores, hence normalising their presence on the shelves. The success of works such as Arrugas (Wrinkles) (2007) by Paco Roca, translated into 14 languages, and its adaption into an animated film in 2011 (which won the Goya for best Spanish animated film in 2012) have expanded comics readership, although with the caveat that the medium is nowhere near regaining the popular appeal it enjoyed in the 1940s and 1950s.
In Spain, new publishing houses emerged around the 2000s working (not only) with Spanish comics and added to the existing Ikusager Ediciones (1976–2000) founded by Ernesto Santolaya, Norma Editorial (created in 1977 by Rafael Martínez), Ediciones La Cúpula (since 1979 when it began editing the magazine El Víbora [The viper]), Edicions de Ponent (under a different name in 1995–1998) until the tragic death of Paco Camarasa in 2016, Ediciones Sinsentido (founded by Jesús Moreno in 1999) and Astiberri (Javier Zalbidegoitia, Fernando Tarancón, Héloïse Guerrier and Laureano Domínguez) since
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Art Madrid'25 – LOCAL TALENTS, ART MADRID IS THE FAIR OF ALL
Madrid Art Week is an opportunity to show professionals, enthusiasts and collectors, the variety and quality of contemporary national creation. Art Madrid, in particular, is a meeting point for galleries throughout Spain that are especially committed to local talent.
In the Art Madrid'18 General Program you can find galleries of practically all the regions, from north to south of the Iberian Peninsula, galleries that fulfill two essential functions: to take to their respective cities the influences and the work of artists from other points of Spain and international, and to promote local artists outside their region, taking them to fairs around the world and showing their work to collectors and international public.
The Montenegro Gallery (Vigo, Galicia), founded in 1987 and directed by Victor Rodeiro Montenegro, is specialized in Historical Vanguard and Modern International Art, and represents Spanish and foreign artists but it dedicates part of its program to Galician art. In Art Madrid'18 they participate with two Galician artists, Jorge Barbi and Manolo Paz.
Jorge Barbi studies Philosophy in Santiago de Compostela. His artistic activity can not be easily integrated into any of the trends th