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Guitar performance by Pablo Giménez at 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.

In the 1970s, FLORE’s father unexpectedly abandoned her mother in the port of Tangiers. The discussion was brief, without outbursts, the decision, sudden. She, the painter Olga Jimeno, decided to stay in Tangiers, and what was originally intended to be a summer trip turned into a road trip lasting several months.

Made in 2019, shortly after the death of her mother, the series is a bittersweet tribute to her memory. The artist whispers to us that time slips away, memories fade and those we love die.

Through snapshots initially taken on Polaroid, FLORE transports the images to Japanese handmade paper, later adding mother-of-pearl pigments. In this way she obtains works that seem to have been taken in those seventies that are the true origin of this series.

“Sometimes only photographs remain to bring back the poetry of happy days”

With the decline and death of the dictator and his forty-year military regime, a terrifying abyss of silence, lack of culture and isolation opened at the feet of the Spanish people.

Despite this, the enthusiasm, the desire for experimentation, provocation and rupture, as well as the influence of new magazines such as Nueva Lente, which were in turn a platform of expression for new creators, made the transition to democracy possible. a renaissance of photography, design and illustration.

Antonio Lafuente, Miguel Ángel Mendo and Oscar Mariné were part of that creative renaissance that placed the capital of Spain on the most avant-garde map of those distant days of the 70s and early 80s.

This exhibition shows some original photomontages by Antonio Lafuente and Miguel Ángel Mendo, hand-colored with watercolor, oil and gouache, which gave rise to a new concept of photographic illustration halfway between Surrealism and Pop Art. Both formed the already missing Team Yeti.

From Oscar Mariné, creator of one of the references of the emerging culture of the 80s, the magazine Madrid me mata, we have selected four significant works with which he contributed to illuminating those years of profound change in our society. In his own words, “what is known as the Madrid Movida was neither more nor less than a time in which we supported each other and worked almost collectively. “We were a supportive generation.”