Hiperrealisme

Marcet / Bulbena / Muñoz / Vila-Abadal

03/01/75. (Sala 031)

From 3 – 18 January 1975

The authors give more importance to the concept than to the realization, to the content than to the wrapping and understand that Hyperrealism is a sublimation of virtuosity and a waste of time in the realization of the work by magnifying the real, following the essences of the tradition of classical painting.

The intention of the exhibition is to raise the following questions: What is the point of reproducing reality when we can have it through a photograph? What good has the evolution of contemporary art done?

They believe that Hyperrealism is an artistic current aimed at the art trade (galleries, art dealers and some theoreticians) as opposed to poor and conceptual art.

According to Bulbena: “The American hyperrealism practiced by many Catalan painters dealt with banal subjects (car bodies, sneakers and the like) that did not correspond at all to the reality of the moment. One could not sing of mountains and birds with what was happening at that time in the country”. 

Wooden frames framed not the drawn image of the object but the object itself. Also cages with birds, plants, books, still lifes, everyday objects, which from a distance look like real hyperrealist paintings.

The exhibition is an open criticism of the hyperrealist movement of the time, which had arrived in Barcelona a few years earlier and had many followers. 

Of course, the price of those objects within their frames was disproportionate, which incidentally denounced the commodification of the art world.