Miralda (Tarrasa – Barcelona, 1942) produced Mixed Media and Happenings with Dorothée Selz during the 70’s. The artista does not use the photographic technique a a collage, but as a pictoric one, critisizing militarism, Franco’s regime and violence in many of his works. In his subsequent relationship with Montse Guillén – restorator and gastronomer – orients his work towards eatable art, establishing a gastronomic view of the post industrial society.

 

 

In this occasion, he presents 2 inedit series: Vía Crucis – edited by Raíña Lupa in 2010 – and which refers to the Discovery of America and the masacre commited there, and another series, X-Ray Foods, both coming from the 60’s and 70’s artist’s photographic archive  and recently edited in a 7 pieces Edition, all signed and numbered.

 

The viewing coincides with the exhibition that the National Museum Reina Sofia art center in Madrid is dedicting to the artist.

 

In Rabascall’s work (Barcelona – Spain, 1935) the use and manipulation of the mass communication media images create an openly critical discourse. He argues: “From that mass of treated and manipulated images I sustract some of them from their context and give them a new frame(…). I deviate their first objective to highlight and denounce some aspects of that journalistic reality that the mass media makes us swallow every day”.

 

His work is placed in the middle of a perverse and incisive vision of the object and the consumerism developed in Europe, in contrast with the facination towards the industrialised products of the American Pop Art. Rabascall fills his anvases by isolating the photographic images, provoking a critical reading of our time in the viewers. “Rabascall’s image is an intruder in the cultural game of the mas communication media” (Pierre Restany, Paris, 1973).

 

In 2009, the MACBA dedicated him an important retrospective. In this opportunity, Raíña Lupa presents a selection of 26 photographs from the series titled “My Collection”.