The exhibition, entitled Lessons on Objects, is divided into two different sections: on the one hand a selection of the artist’s most relevant work in the audiovisual world over the last thirty years can be seen in the auditorium, with such charismatic pieces as Salvamento e socorrismo (1985) and Ringo rango (1992); on the other hand, in what constitutes the core of the exhibition, a series of eight previously unseen pieces in which images, words and performance intersect to claim a neo-Dadaist territory where derision and a kind of existential melancholy blend productively.

The word—the lowest common denominator and ultimate refuge of Antón Reixa’s artistic practice—is crucial in the context of the installations that are now presented. If in A solución Bukowski, Cicatriz-barullo and Aleluiapedia linguistic performativity is poured into a sequence of images that serve him as a matrix, in the remaining installations images clearly point towards a narrative that is equally linguistic. They all share the same vision of a present built from vital contradictions, from a society that takes the absurd as a common good in social and identity construction.

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