Communications in Space, 7 Spanish artists of today, Telecom 71, Geneva, Switzerland.

When men lived anchored to the earth, artists travelled through infinite spaces, among heavenly bodies, impalpable fluids, inaudible voices, mysterious signs.

Modern science and technology have made these fantastic journeys possible. The spaces are furrowed by man-made ingenuity. The fluids, voices, signs, are today waves, magnetic impulses that man has tamed and carry on his back, at unimaginable distances, the word and the music.

Five important painters and two sculptors, who are prominent in Spanish artistic creation today, exemplify this relationship between art and science. The scientist has made the painter’s dream come true – a fantastic reality. For this reason, the artist does not need to imitate the relationship between science and technique; he agrees with it starting from different points, from different times. The painter and the sculptor have been travelling for many centuries in those exterior spaces where now the scientist is a shepherd of satellites. These five paintings and two sculptures are a tribute to technique, but also to art, which was the visionary pioneer.

Enrique Gran, sober, strong, intense, has covered his itinerary in a mysterious machine that took off, among nightmarish beings, from the hallucinating and nocturnal planet discovered by the Goya of black paintings.

Antonio Lorenzo………………

Juan José Tartas……………………

Gustavo Torner…………………………….

Vicente Vela……………………………………….

Feliciano Hernández……………………………………….

Rubio Camín……………………………………………………….

Everything that the spectator can imagine in front of these paintings and sculptures, or everything that their authors imagined before and during their creation, would be nothing more than mere literature if it had not been expressed with a renovating and personal plastic language.

It is these real values that make these works more than just illustrations for science-fiction texts. It is these real values that make these artists seven firm pillars of contemporary Spanish art.

 José Hierro