Idea: Painting-Force

Idea: Painting-Force presents an ensemble of works made in Spain by five Spanish artists between 1978 and 1984, demonstrating, through pictorial practice, the significance of the crisis of both the avant-garde and the idea of modernity. The gaze of these artists — Alfonso Albacete, Miguel Ángel Campano, Ferran Garcia Sevilla, Juan Navarro Baldeweg and Manolo Quejido — turned towards the idea of painting as an integrating force of shared aesthetic concerns, pulling together efforts and trends by rereading original processes and their connection to research on conceptual languages. The publication includes texts by Armando Montesinos and Mariano Navarro.