Exhibitions
Rubén Guerrero, between Granada and Dallas: the abstraction that crosses the Atlantic
Rubén Guerrero takes his most recent work to a double international stage: from the José Guerrero Center in Granada, where he explores abstraction and large-scale figuration, to the Meadows Museum in Dallas, consolidating his projection as one of the most outstanding contemporary Spanish artists.
The artist from Utrera presents his most recent work at the José Guerrero Center in Granada through Supergráfico , an exhibition that offers a journey through his current artistic explorations and will be open from January 30 to April 26. Simultaneously, his work continues its international reach, as on February 22 he will inaugurate a new exhibition at the Meadows Museum in Dallas (SMU), which will remain open until June 21 under the title Meadows/ARCO Artist Spotlight: Rubén Guerrero , thus consolidating his presence on the contemporary art scene both nationally and internationally.
The exhibition at the José Guerrero Center establishes a dialogue between highly elaborate pieces and others of more direct and restrained execution, generating a fertile tension from seemingly opposing voices. The artist moves naturally between these two poles, understood not as contradictions, but as complementary approaches that balance minimalism and fluidity with denser and more laborious processes. The larger-format works adopt a distinctly scenographic character and explore abstraction through figuration, while the diagrams follow the opposite path: they start from the abstract to approach the real and the concrete.
Spread across the four floors of the Guerrero Foundation, the exhibition begins with the largest-format works and also includes some of the artifacts or models that have served as working models. In total, nearly fifty paintings of varying sizes and some twenty drawings offer the viewer a perceptual experience that blurs the boundaries of the recognizable and invites them to question the meaning of what they observe.
Rubén Guerrero, “St (first and second)”, 2023. Photo courtesy of Galería Luis Adelantado.
Exhibition in Dallas
The Meadows Museum and the ARCO Foundation have selected painter Rubén Guerrero (1976) to participate in the third edition of the Meadows/ARCO Artist Spotlight (MAS) program, an initiative designed to promote contemporary Spanish artists through exhibitions at the Meadows Museum. As part of this collaboration, the artist will travel to Dallas to take part in various educational programs, many of them exclusively for students of Southern Methodist University (SMU).
"I have always been interested in slightly borderline areas that evoke a sense of doubt, small deviations from our immediate surroundings."
