Exhibitions
Resonances in the form of dialogue: Manuel Martí Moreno and Pedro Rodríguez
The BAT Alberto Cornejo Gallery presents "Resonances," an exhibition that brings together the work of Manuel Martí Moreno (Valencia, 1979) and Pedro Rodríguez Garrido (Huelva, 1971). The exhibition is part of the "Dialogues" program, an initiative the gallery has been promoting since 2016 to confront and intertwine the creative universes of contemporary artists.
Painting and sculpture do not clash on this occasion, but rather will be seen as unique strategies where the artists do not seek to convey an encrypted message, but rather invite the viewer to delve into the temporality of each piece, to dialogue with its own rhythm and intimate logic, allowing the aesthetic experience to unfold freely and lead us along unexpected paths.
Manuel Martí Moreno, Dionysian, 2021.
Pedro Rodríguez Garrido displays a painting where gesture, memory, and surface intertwine like living layers. His journey from figuration—with a particular focus on the urban landscape—to abstraction has not diluted the narrative but rather transformed it, softening it symbolically and enveloping it in lyrical spirit.
An incisive reflection on the human body and the face as symbolic territory of identity. This search is expressed through a poetics of the fragment, constructed with industrial materials and repurposed objects—nuts, rebar, metal mesh, fiberglass, polyester resin, among others—that evoke assembly, tension, and precariousness; this is the sculptural work of Martí Moreno. At the BAT Gallery, he activates reflection through matter.
Pedro Rodríguez Garrido, Memories of Korea, 2024.
Carlos Delgado Mayordomo explains the title of the temporary exhibition, which will be on view from September 9 to October 31: “The title of the exhibition, Resonances, precisely names that type of effect: the one that occurs when a work, without resorting to narrative, manages to connect with the experience of the viewer. The pieces gathered here do not converse through superficial affinity, but through friction, echo, and contrast. Sculpture and painting meet in a common question: How can art, from its materiality, continue to be a medium for thinking about and experiencing the intangible aspects of existence?”
