LECTURAS: CURATED WALKTHROUGHS X ART MADRID

“THE PREDOMINANCE OF BRILLIANT AESTHETICS”. CURATED WALKTHROUGH BY MARISOL SALANOVA

Galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles

Saturday, March 7 – 6:00 PM

Curatorial walkthrough through twelve works proposed by Marisol Salanova at Art Madrid’26 under the concept: “The Predominance of Brilliant Aesthetics”: works that understand brilliance not as superficiality, but rather as a visual strategy, as contemporary seduction, as a symptom of an era that requires impact, color, polish, and perhaps at times certain excesses in order to think (itself).

With this selection—bringing together works of different formats and techniques created by artists from various generations—a debate is opened to better understand our present aesthetic condition, one in which the public is invited to participate. Salanova approaches brilliant aesthetics as a tension rather than a closed solution. In the works of Urdiales and Celada, brilliance appears as an internal conflict within pictorial language; in Monge and Okuda, so distinct from one another, as the direct spectacularization of space and the urban imaginary; in Juncal, Ipsen, and Alpuente, as a fragile balance between material and perception; and in Palito Dominguín, as an iconographic and symbolic affirmation, almost performative in nature. What the curator and critic finds particularly compelling about this group is that brilliant aesthetics is not perceived as unified, but fragmented—at times ironic, at times ornamental, at times almost violent; elsewhere softened or symbolic. It is not an innocent brilliance: it seduces, imposes, distracts, and orders the gaze, much like the visual ecosystem in which we live today.

Artists and galleries in the walkthrough:

Eduardo Urdiales — Inéditad Gallery. Arol — Est_ArtSpace. Perrilla — Est_ArtSpace. Ángel Celada — Galería BAT alberto cornejo. Antonio Ovejero — CLC Arte. Alejandro Monge — 3 Punts Galería. Okuda San Miguel — 3 Punts Galería. Steen Ipsen — Kant Gallery. Marina Puche — Galería Alba Cabrera. Marcos Juncal— Galería La Mercería. Gemma Alpuente — LAVIO. Palito Dominguín — DDR Art Gallery.

About Marisol Salanova

Marisol Salanova is an art critic, curator, and director of the Arteinformado platform. She is a regular contributor to ABC and Cadena SER. She holds a degree in Philosophy and a Master’s degree in Artistic Production. She has lectured at university level and has published essays such as Art Criticism Today (Akal, 2024).