After the Second World War, many artists wanted to redefine their artistic style.
In this striving period, despite the fact that all techniques were welcome, artists sought to abandon the common tropes and methods of earlier artistic schools.
Its valuation changed both in its conception as an art object as in their notion of representation.
Greater relevance began to be given to the process behind the work, to the creative inspiration that initiated art and also to performative aspects. Kazuo Shiraga painted with his feet, Shozo Shimamoto threw glass bottles filled with paint at his works and Niki de Saint Phalle shot balloons, filled with paint and wrapped in plaster, with a rifle to the canvas. However, it is Jackson Pollock’s drip technique that challenged the importance of the fixation with fate as a creative method.
GALERIA AZUR’s new group show was inspired by that stage of post-war euphoria that originated different processes of creating art from very radical movements and a new generation of sculptors and painters that began to understand themselves simply as artists, considering all kinds of materials and themes as potential art. The varied artistic styles trigger intimate relationships that share a common feeling of impetus exacerbated in fate.

Ceres González
Art Curator and Art Critic. GALERIA AZUR
PHYSICAL & DIGITAL EXHIBITION
FEATURED ARTISTS
Tracy Hickman (USA)
Sharn Bassi (CANADA)
Caspar Baum GERMANY)
Yves Noly (FRANCE)
Linda Tveter (NORWAY)
ESZTER L (BELGIUM)
Jahan Gerrard (ENGLAND)
Takahiro Nago (JAPAN)
Iduna Imiela (GERMANY)
Ely Magos (AUSTRIA)
Thor Rafnsson (ICELAND)
Russell Vanecek (USA)
Gabriele Scanziani (ITALY)
Ellen King (USA)
Weronika Dylag (POLAND)
Rina Murao (JAPAN)
Christine Weber Nolte (CWN) (GERMANY)
Artworks

blow_up
FROM JAN 12 TO FEB 11 / 2023

CRYSTAL SILENCE
FROM DEC 8 TO JAN 2 / 2022-2023

SUBTEXTS
FROM NOV 21 TO DEC 12 / 2022

DREAMLAND
FROM OCT 27 TO NOV 21 / 2022

HEART BEAT
FROM: OCT 13 TO NOV 7 / 2022

EUPHORIA
FROM SEPT 8 TO OCT 3 / 2022

JUAN PINILLA. La pintura guiando al pueblo.
FROM SEPT 29 TO OCT 13

ABSTRACT DUTY
FROM: JULY 28 TO AUGUST 22

HYPNOTIC
FROM: JULY 28 TO AUGUST 22

ANY OLD TIME
FROM JANUARY 13 UNTIL FEB 13 / 2022

SEEING ABSTRACTION
FROM JANUARY 13 UNTIL FEB 13 / 2022

REBELLION
FROM JULY 23 UNTIL AGO 23 / 2021

PLASTICITY
FROM JUNE 11 UNTIL JULY 6 / 2022

GENESIS
FROM JUNE 11 UNTIL JULY 6 / 2022

PARADOX
FROM OCTOBER 7 UNTIL NOVEMBER 7

MODERN ARCHETYPES
FROM SEPTEMBER 2 UNTIL OCTOBER 2 / 2021

FLÂNERIE
FROM JULY 23 UNTIL AGO 23 / 2021

ECLIPSE
FROM JANUARY 13 UNTIL FEB 13 / 2022

AD ASTRA
FROM NOV 18 UNTIL DEC 18 / 2021

STRIPPED
FROM JUNE 30 UNTIL JULY 25/2022

ORVIS
FROM JUNE 23 UNTIL JULY 18 / 2022

DEVENIR TORO. Fotografías por Andrés Calamaro. Curada por Rodrigo Cañete
FROM MAY 15 UNTIL JUNE 1ST / 2021

