Concha García and Ignacio Llamas, those of intuition

Madrid,

She, Concha García, is interested in the effects of the passage of time in both the everyday and public spheres, and tends to capture them in objects of daily use, emphasizing their fragility. Also the conjunction of that vulnerability with strength in human nature, which is why he has sometimes exhibited sculptures whose materials deceived us: they were (delicate) ceramics that resembled stone. The presence of traces is common in his creations: marks left by the years or a figurative rolling along the paths; In the human field, we can equate them to experiences or memories.

He, Ignacio Llamas, has been showing us white boxes for several decades that we must contemplate through openings. In them, refined spaces await us, which can be disturbing or bucolic depending on our perspective: emptiness, shadows and the absence of references that point to specific times or places can generate both attraction and unease. Human figures are also absent from these boxes; At least physically, not so much emotionally.

Concha García and Ignacio Llamas. Understanding is not done with reason. Daniel Cuevas Gallery

The Daniel Cuevas Gallery, which represents both, unites them starting this weekend in the exhibition “Understanding is not done with reason”, the second in which it brings together works by two of its artists between which aesthetic or conceptual affinities can be established. This exhibition line opened with Miguel Aguirre and Eduardo Nave a year ago, in “Parallels in Time.”

This new proposal, whose title intentionally evokes Goya, wants to emphasize that knowledge may be more or less necessary, but not sufficient, when it comes to understanding reality, even when this notion seems more evanescent than ever in times of the power of the visual and half-truths. In addition to the Aragonese, they have had theoretical references: those of the psychologist and Harvard researcher Howard Gardner, architect in the eighties of the Theory of Multiple Intelligenceswhich pointed out that at least eight types of intelligence can be distinguished in human beings, reason being neither the only nor dominant path; and the philosopher, and again psychologist, Jean Piaget, who went so far as to affirm that intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.

In this exhibition, the works of García and Llamas want to invite us to become aware of the possible importance of the sensory and intuition as ways to learning. Giving these notions primacy, they have played with theoretically contradictory concepts to emphasize that, if we do not approach them from closed mental frameworks, they may not be so; We refer to reality and appearance, lightness and heaviness, the unique and the diverse or the infinite and the limited. For both artists, these notions may not be opposites, but protagonists of wavering balances, of zones of transit, which can only be truly experienced without seeking explanations.