Juan Genovés

JUAN GENOVÉS (Valencia, 1930 - Madrid, 2020).
"To the Chilean antifascist resistance", 1978.
Aquatint on paper, copy 31/110.
Signed, dated and justified by hand.
Size: 33 x 44 cm (print), 40 x 50 cm (paper).
Juan Genovés trained at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts, encouraged and advised by the artist Martinez Verchili. Genovés' artistic life passes through various projects and groups such as Los Siete, Parpalló and Hondo, until he reaches a moment of crisis when he decides to turn to painting from a political-social point of view, developing an artistic theme close to the workers movement. In this way, he worked from two points of view: the representation of a solitary individual, and its extreme, the staging of the multitude, of which this silkscreen is an example. These are compositions altered by the movement and hustle and bustle of people, located in a concentric and apparently non-existent space, where actions are carried out for protest purposes. As we can see, the Valencian artist evolves and renews the art he works with, reflecting on his role and function in and for society, but not only for Spanish society, but for society all over the world. Genovés has twice participated as a representative of the Spanish pavilion at the Venice Biennale. During his second participation in 1966, the Marlborough Gallery took an interest in his work and allowed him to exhibit his work abroad. His career has been very prosperous, becoming known all over the world, participating in art fairs such as ARCO, TEFAF, Art Basel, as well as exhibiting in galleries in New York, Brazil, Miami, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Portugal, to mention just a few of the places that have been familiar with his work.