The Shape of Lies by Víctor Rodríguez: at Level 2

During the transition from the 20th to the 21st century, figurative painting, especially photorealism, represented, in the words of Víctor Rodríguez, “a necessity and a heresy”; the beginning of “a path that today is accepted and exercised by the younger generations”. Rodríguez's painting is based on the argument that photorealism “is more than a form and the absence of content”; he says: “I use it as a language, and vaguely, among others, because I am not even interested in the perfection of its manufacture, but always something else”.

Taking these premises into account, the exhibition The Shape of Lies by Rodríguez takes us on a double journey. On the one hand, the exhibition allows us to approach an important and current manifestation of contemporary painting that draws from classical and modern sources, photorealism and the diverse field of action that includes hyperrealism; At the same time, this first solo exhibition by Rodríguez in collaboration with Saenger Galería, reviews in a timely manner the last two decades in the artist's career, which has gone through various facets, with particular approaches to cubism, pop art and realism, as well as his predilection for certain compositional strategies such as collage, the divided cinematic screen, juxtaposition and, recently, the incorporation of drawing superimposed on the pictorial surface. The Shape of Lies by Víctor Rodríguez is also an occasion for celebration, as it represents the fifty individual show in his already very prolific career.