Exhibitions
Les enfants terribles: rebellion and subversion
In Cadaqués, art as a territory to question and break established norms.
Les enfants terribles is the proposal that Galeria Cadaqués is opening this 2025. Beyond a nostalgic homage, the exhibition recovers the irreverent spirit of an exhibition that was hosted by Galeria Estrany-de la Mota in Barcelona thirty years ago. The title, inspired by Jean Cocteau's novel, refers to Paul and Elizabeth, the two main brothers who challenge social conventions through a world of their own, between the real and the invented. This same spirit runs through the selection of works and artists that are part of the exhibition, open until July 9. The focus is not so much on reproducing an era, but on recovering an attitude: that of those who have no interest in fitting into established standards.
Regarding the choice of artists, some of them had already been present in the gallery's programming between 1995 and 2019: Martí Anson , Pauline Fondevila , Douglas Gordon , José Antonio Hernández-Díez , Paul McCarthy , Rasmus Nilausen , Ana Prada , David Shrigley and Nedko Solakov . All of them make up a dispersed clan, but connected by the desire to dismantle preconceived ideas and move away from established canons.
From this shared resistance, the exhibition explores the figure of the artist as a subversive agent. Far removed from traditional forms of production, his works question authority, morality and the established order, often through resources such as irony, surrealism or symbolism, with which they shake up conventional logic and open up new spaces for reflection. The result is a collection of works with several layers, often enigmatic, that present an apparently playful aesthetic but that hides, in many cases, a deeper tension.
With this exhibition, the Cadaqués Gallery revisits a milestone from its past, while reaffirming its vision of contemporary art as a space for experimentation and criticism, where rules are not only to be questioned, but, if necessary, to be broken.
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