Miquel Barceló recently said: "Art with moralising that seeks to defend minorities is absurd" (interview by Alberto G. for "el Grito" in elconfidencial. com 19-11-2024), it`s possible that in this era in which hedonism has triumphed and imposed its principle: "Money justifies everything", whoever tries to explore another narrative or add an alternative message to his work by loading it with intentionality will be making a futile effort because any critical message or vindication would only be justified according to a strategy to bring the work closer to a certain public akin to that thought and thus achieve its sale, and of course, money.
Of course, Miquel, money and fame are the only explanations for everything.
The problem is that there are some, like me (and a few other people counted on the fingers of one hand, and I have fingers to spare) who need to know the why of the things that surround us, especially Art, which is my favourite subject. So I ask myself: What is Art, why are you famous and I`m not, why are you famous and I`m not? We have been solving all these questions with the help of other artists in the books on NOARTE and in the catalogues of "Art for beans", the trilogy that explains Art: "Has Art Died? "Conversations on authenticity and decontextualisation in modern art" and "On the limits of Art", this helps me to understand who I am in this system we call "the Art world", maybe it is something more similar to a "ERROR OF SYSTEM (NOARTISTA`s Manual)" than to a cash register like Miquel Barceló.
Sorry Miquel, I haven`t used one of the fingers of my hand to count you among those who understand what I`m doing.
At present I consider my project "Messages from Chaos", its collections and the discourse that is articulated around them, is finally finished and defined in this catalogue which, in addition to a wonderful collection of contemporary images, is a critical reflection of our time and its unwritten principles, but which subject us all.
The works in my collections are the pictorial representation of my critical thinking. In conclusion we can summarize my work in two pieces: "Boy walking mesh" and "Coca cola chaos". Each of these two pieces represents for me the only alternatives of society (government) that the current world can can offer us (there is no more). .
Let me explain:
- "Boy walking mesh" shows the images of a boy walking, it is the same boy replicated hundreds of times, only his colours change. Applied to the form of government that society proposes to us, it would be a tyranny in which there is a single model that we must necessarily resemble, only small changes such as colour are admissible, changes that will be called "freedom of expression", when in reality there is no possibility of deviating from this model. Yes, there is order, because we see that the resulting composition is ordered, but it is artificial, it is not human, because the model was predefined and forces individuals to "fit" into it without the possibility of criticising it.
- In "Coca cola chaos", and in the whole series "Chaos", I represent objects piled up in a chaotic way, in these paintings I look for the sensation of overwhelming excess, which is the same sensation that the contents of the social networks produce in me, the result are fascinating images, as it fascinates us to see the same successful content replicated thousands of times, it seems that we never get tired, although our mind has long since said enough and has stopped thinking (thought understood as criticism), therefore the social networks have achieved their objective: That we stop thinking critically so that we accept as normal real nonsense such as the concept of "artificial intelligence". So Miquel Barceló will be happy painting his money, without worrying about what they might say about his work, or any other, because the new religion of modern hedonism will justify everything in the same way "money is king", eliminating any forum from which any criticism of this system can be made. This system is reflected in my series "Chaos", because, although money justifies everything, it has no coherence, neither human nor moral (sorry Miquel) because its principles are only known to those who run things and, of course, they are not written down anywhere. Thus, in a world governed by the president of a multinational, we will appreciate neither justice, nor morality, nor recognisable humanity in its laws, because its principles will be dictated according to the measure of its commercial and personal interests.