Drawing on his own life experience, Gerrú invites us to reflect on the fragility of life and the passage of time. In presenting his work, he reminds us of what he considers a self-evident truth: that inert matter withstands the passage of time better than flesh. “That is why,” he says, “faced with the transience of life, in a mirage of eternity, human beings have been writing and painting on walls from the darkness of Palaeolithic caves to the present day”—an action which, despite the best of intentions, he cannot help but regard as a futile task, a wasted effort.
Some thirty pieces, including sculptures, which—heirs to our most classical iconic tradition (Ghirlandaio, Leonardo, Raphael and Velázquez, among others), yet also drawing on our more contemporary icons, including those of the seventh art—lead us to his central premise: “Life is the reflection of the mirror of our mind, and each of us has, since birth, accumulated a set of impressions, tastes, beliefs, prejudices and experiences that shape and reconstruct the reality we observe”, and he believes this so strongly that, truly convinced, he states with determination regarding his paintings exhibited here: “Observe them and you will observe yourself”.
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