'Genoese + Genoese'

The exhibition Genovés + Genovés is a show that brings together for the first time the photographs of Pablo Genovés and the pictorial interventions of his father, Juan Genovés. In the process of creating his images, Pablo Genovés appropriates old prints and photographs found in markets and antique shops in Europe, and later combines them with other images using digital techniques, giving them a new meaning. In this way, one can see palaces, theatres or cathedrals invaded by violent waters, photographs with which he raises a lyrical and at the same time forceful reflection on the passage of time, memory and the durability of images.

These visionary and dystopian photomontages by Pablo Genovés are a metaphor for the disappearance of human civilization. Thanks to digital tools, his photographs come closer to painting and its capacity to create fictions. A symbiosis between painting and photography that reaches a new level thanks to the intervention of Juan Genovés.

Text: Tamara Ortega.

Two of the most internationally renowned Spanish artists come together in an unprecedented exhibition, in which Pablo Genovés' photographs of his interiors flooded by rough seas coexist with Juan Genovés's crowds, so characteristic of his pictorial production.