This exhibition, which will open its doors until September 12, will show the public photographs of Antonio Morales, which make a nod to work of El Bosco.
The municipal delegate of Culture, Susana Rivas; the director of the Museum of Chiclana, Jesús Romero; and the author of the works, Antonio Morales, have inaugurated the exhibition ‘El jardín de las delicias’, which will be open to the public at the Museum until September 12. It is an exhibition made up of 20 pieces, which make a nod to the work of Bosco, in a language as timeless as the famous Prado triptych. In fact, these works give that same feeling of strangeness and dreamlike atmosphere as those portrayed in the other work.
Twenty pieces that are quite a manifesto, a beautiful as well as forceful positioning. Not surprisingly, Antonio Morales, from his resounding and radical proposal, stands as a visual activist, on a journey from the self to the us structured by the transforming sense of the image, where the human body is the protagonist of the sense of reality.
In the words of the poet Raúl Alonso, who underlines the insertion of the narrative thread of this show in that post-dramatic discourse whose origins date back to the middle of the 20th century, “The exhibition 'El jardín de las delicias', constitutes a work with many layers, more well strata, sediments that are piled up one on top of the others, woven by a delicate semantics of the relationship between the superficiality of the flesh and the interiority of the myth that has built the identity of the Judeo-Christian culture and its liberal-capitalist structure, based on the normativity of bodies designed for consumption: exemplary, attractive, desirable and physically perfect bodies, which is what he sells in advertising, in social life and in fashion magazines ”.
Against that, starting from the myth of Genesis, Antonio Morales opposes the garden of Eden an anti-garden of non-normative, non-commodified bodies, not adjusted to the canons of the capitalist system, but a mosaic of scenes, where the nude of natural bodies, real bodies, bodies that are related to each other in compositions of scenes devoid of drive and desire for consumption, make up a fragmentary landscape devoid of moral foundation that highlights the urgent need for new ways of relating and being collectively.
We think with language, from language. And the reflection that Morales offers on this occasion is a reflection that is born from the plastic itself and that is expressed in it. It is a reflection of important moral significance, which at no time ceases to be the reflection of an artist.
Twenty pieces out of a total of thirty-six, which serve to learn about 'El jardín de las delicias' and to enter the viewer into the particular creative universe and references of this artist born in Castro del Río (Córdoba) in 1970 and graduated by the School of Arts and Crafts of Córdoba in 1994. Dedicated to painting in the first section (1990-2000) of his artistic career in painting, at which time he participated in various exhibitions, obtaining the Diego Monroy Prize for Painting. In addition, in 2011 he founded the photographic collective ‘Envilo’.
‘We are very happy to be able to have this new photographic exhibition by Antonio Morales, whom we thank, a year later, for bringing us this sample,’ said Susana Rivas, who has encouraged citizens to ‘enjoy this exposition’. ‘Until September 12, visitors will be able to enjoy this exhibition, in addition to other temporary ones and the permanent exhibition,’ he said.
For his part, Antonio Morales has indicated that ‘‘El jardín de las delicias’ is a vanishing point to reencounter the human body. It is a project that was born with a book published in 2018 and that later needed to be hung on the walls ‘. ‘Thus, he has traveled to different places and now, after a year of waiting, he arrives in Chiclana, a charming city’, said the author of the exhibition, who added that ‘Culture is a perfect complement to other attractions such as beaches’.
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