The Nave Gallery opened on Thursday 26 March 2009 the exhibition of the artist Chus García Fraile, called Megalopolis, which is focused on the city and the consumer society, a work of great beauty that fills the Valencian gallery until 23rd May.

This work is a continuation of its series “For Sale” which was exhibited in the gallery in September 2008 and where the images of holiday homes as objects of desire and a market economy presents a work in which the dissolution of digital images show this desire and dream. Megalopolis III and IV are the most innovative parts of this series where the colors black and white, the city and its pictures show us two impressive works where the dream and the factory with its cranes present a society that produces and consumes with these houses embodied.

The second of the works in black and white shows a living city, where a big night city like Manhattan is shown as a city that wakes up in contrast to the lights and shadows, an expressiveness and power of the artist who breaks with the rest of this exposure to be more colourful and digitized in showing the desire and the construction of housing.

Her acrylic paintings through their constructions show us a work in which their square and rectangular shapes in contrast with the color and the artist’s  hard work display an exquisite clarity of great beauty. Turquoise, red and yellow are the ones which dominate the work full of strength and expression where the constructions are expressed through painting.

In addition to this series Chus presents her work Pantone which is inspired by the colour palette where the clarity, vividness and beauty of the 15 containers make an allegory of the waste and recycling. This is also an attempt to reflect on this issue in an appealing way in which the furniture of the society is the focus of this work.

Megalopolis is also an exhibition where the city is shown as a meeting point and a paradigm of the current society through manipulated architectural images and where the housing is shown as an object of a planned desire.

More info

26 March – 23 May 2009 / Megalopolis

• Galería La Nave / Calle La Nave, 25
• Website: www.galerialanave.com / Phone: 963 511 933

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