Son buenas tardes si nadie dice gilipolleces
L21 Gallery•Nov 13, 2024 — Jan 17, 2025
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Marc Badia (1984, Barcelona) explores the relationship between history, contemporary culture and dystopia. The artist creates a dynamic dialogue between destruction and creation, redefining elements of the past in a new context through the absurd. In some way, the past and the present are connected through a kind of visual archaeology that can even lead to dystopia.
His work poses a fascinating question: what happens when multiple versions of the past and the present coexist, in an almost multiversal sense, within the same piece or space? In this sense, and taking up another central influence in his work, Badia turns the tradition of painting into fertile ground for sampling, where, as in hip hop music, references from other authors are mixed with his own to generate unexpected meanings. In fact, the very title of the exhibition, “Son buenas tardes si nadie dice gilipolleces” (It’s a good afternoon if nobody says bullshit) is a sentence by the Spanish rapper Juaninacka. For...More
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Son buenas tardes si nadie dice gilipolleces
L21 Gallery•Nov 13, 2024 — Jan 17, 2025
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Marc Badia (1984, Barcelona) explores the relationship between history, contemporary culture and dystopia. The artist creates a dynamic dialogue between destruction and creation, redefining elements of the past in a new context through the absurd. In some way, the past and the present are connected through a kind of visual archaeology that can even lead to dystopia.
His work poses a fascinating question: what happens when multiple versions of the past and the present coexist, in an almost multiversal sense, within the same piece or space? In this sense, and taking up another central influence in his work, Badia turns the tradition of painting into fertile ground for sampling, where, as in hip hop music, references from other authors are mixed with his own to generate unexpected meanings. In fact, the very title of the exhibition, “Son buenas tardes si nadie dice gilipolleces” (It’s a good afternoon if nobody says bullshit) is a sentence by the Spanish rapper Juaninacka. For...More
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