It was announced at the time that the Temporary Exhibition "Costus in Chiclana" would be accompanied by a series of complementary activities, activities to which we already began with the screening -presentation and colloquium included- of the documentary by Ernesto de Chicote. With these activities we continue.
A few years ago - not many - the first monograph on Costus was published, which placed the work of these creators from Cadiz -Juan carrero (Puerto de santa María) and Enrique Naya /(Cádiz) in the broad (amplitude in every sense) of Contemporary Art. Entitled "Costus: you are a star", it had as its subtitle a more descriptive text: "Pintura de corte (kitsch) en el Madrid de la Movida".
After this publication, the rigorous research work of Julio Pérez Manzanares (Segovia, 1983), well seasoned with interviews with key figures of the movement, several of whom still weigh on the cultural and artistic life of our days.
The extensive and profound work collected in this work largely supports the conference that, under the almodovarian title "Costus, the movement, the Transition and other postmodern styles of the heap", will offer us on July 23, Pérez Manzanares in the auditorium of the Museum of Chiclana.
In his dissertation, Pérez Manzanares will talk about Costus' trajectory, from its origins -how it was possible- and how his legacy still survives today.
A reflection on the conditioning and enabling factors of the moment - that broad, transversal and heterogeneous framework, which, after Umbral, we end up calling La Movida - and on the transformations suffered, since then, by our society, a transformation to which the work of that group of creators is no stranger.
Those times - come and perhaps not entirely lost - inaugural in so many aspects are reflected in the work, and in the life, of Juan Carrero and Costus, architects themselves, in turn, same of that time. A time on which Julio Pérez Manzanares has returned again and again in his research and dissemination work.
Pérez Manzanares - author of several essays on Art, Gender and Visual Culture - holds a PhD in Art History and currently works as a professor of Aesthetics and Contemporary Art at the Nebrija University of Madrid.
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