Personal Mythologies

The exhibition Personal Mythologies presents the work of contemporary artists of the younger and middle generation, who combine the use of a distinctive imaginative language and work with a purely painterly or sculptural medium, whose craft and haptic qualities give spatial facticity to magical and personal phenomena. The central motif of these works is often the human figure, the human being as both subject and object, set in a fantastical story full of unexpected and irrational events and influences. Figuration and narrative refer to various historical styles, from antiquity to Romanticism, Surrealism, Magical realism and Naive art. Its practice follows postmodern strategies of appropriation and symbolic actualization of historical experience with a pervasive emotionality that is far removed from intellectualized and conceptual artistic expression.