An allegory of Luis Buñuel's film of the same name, the El Ángel Exterminador exhibition explores the ambivalence between exterior and interior, the visceral need to escape and the equally deep-rooted desire for isolation. When claustrophobia strikes, however, one has to adapt; indeed, learning how to live with alienating constraints becomes a matter of urgency. Through paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and installations, twenty-seven Spanish artists of our own time portray the notion of “limit”. An intriguing circuit: a veritable tableau vivant that has to be escaped from...

Curator: Fernando Castro Flórez

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El Angel on COBRA.be

Fernando Castro Florez and the artists Enrique Marty and Jacobo Castellano


The artists Bernardi Roig, Mateo Mati and Javier Perez