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For your next exhibition, you’re taking your<br />
work inside. What will you be showing?<br />
My solo show at Ignacio de Lassaletta<br />
will have work in various sizes. I’ll be<br />
showcasing a new series using historical<br />
materials. I have removed old interior<br />
wall surfaces from 200-year-old<br />
abandoned buildings and transferred<br />
those textures onto wood panels.<br />
How does the new work, which brings the<br />
wall to the painting, inform your old work,<br />
which brought the painting to the wall?<br />
They are parallel directions. In both<br />
cases, I’m talking about the intrinsic<br />
beauty of the wall surface and the<br />
passage of time that it portrays.<br />
What is your inspiration?<br />
My empathy towards humanity. I paint<br />
ordinary people to create work that<br />
questions how we are being aff ected by<br />
the marketing and advertising industries.<br />
These industries sell values and concepts<br />
of success, worth, love, sexuality,<br />
popularity and normality.<br />
I’m inspired by the realities of the world<br />
we live in and the changes I consider<br />
necessary for the future I want to off er<br />
my children.<br />
Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada’s work will be<br />
on show at the Ignacio Lassaletta Gallery<br />
(47 Rambla de Catalunya; tel: +34 93<br />
488 0221, galeriaignaciodelassaletta.<br />
com) from November 24 – January 13.<br />
His murals can be seen in Barcelona,<br />
Granada, Ljubljana, London, Madrid<br />
and Valencia. Find out more at<br />
jorgerodriguezgerada.com<br />
Left, Tina,<br />
painted on the<br />
side of a<br />
building in<br />
Ljubljana by the<br />
artist, below,<br />
Jorge<br />
Rodríguez-<br />
Gerada
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