Adolfo Schlosser and others exhibition at Ponce+Robles gallery

'An interesting forest'

'An interesting forest' , curated by Mariano Navarro , establishes points of connection between the professional dedication to art criticism and curating and the germinal moment in which the future critic and curator came into contact with contemporary art and became aware of its conceptual importance and the significance that the works of the artists who burst onto the Madrid art scene represented for the practice of art.

In his case, the phenomenon occurred at the beginning of the seventies of the last century and through first knowledge of his work and very shortly after through personal contact with several of the artists active in the precarious Madrid scene of that time.

An interesting forest It is a cabinet exhibition that in no way aims to write about what the Spanish art scene was like in that decade, but rather, in a much more modest way, acknowledges the debt that the curator owes to a certain group of artists active in Madrid and thanks to whom he “discovered” the value of the art of his time and the implications that this entailed in daily life.

It is important to note that the works on display – the vast majority of which come from the artists' own collections and have been faithfully preserved since then – are not the result of any chance, but rather are originals, sketches or pieces closely related to those larger pieces that were defining of a moment and of ways of doing things that profoundly transformed the artistic panorama of Madrid and Spain.