Notes related to La Cometa

In his solo exhibition at La Cometa in Madrid, the Colombian artist revisits the imagery of the landscape through a critical lens that interrogates memory, identity, and dominant historical narratives by appropriating and intervening images from the past.

The two Colombian artists approach the exploration of painting’s zero point through separate solo exhibitions at La Cometa, responding from positions shaped by contemporary visual saturation and the suspended pictorial gesture.

María Fernanda Cardoso explores, through macro photography and video, the performative dimension of the behavior of spiders of the genus Maratus in a body of work that connects science, chromaticism, and aesthetics through naturalistic observation.

By Álvaro de Benito

Antes de todo (Before All Things) is the solo exhibition by Matías Ercole (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1986) presented at the Madrid venue of La Cometa. The show centers on the exploration of luminosity and obscurity as elements that, although seemingly opposed, become fundamental to the construction of the image. Drawing on the conceptual dimension of the physical principle, the artist materializes the tension between concealment and revelation through techniques such as sgraffito, scraping, and stripping.

By Álvaro de Benito

A veces sueño que cae un meteorito sobre el mundo y lo construye (Sometimes I dream that a meteorite falls upon the world and builds it) is the proposal that Karlo Andrei Ibarra (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1982) presents at the Madrid venue of La Cometa. This exhibition, of enormous conceptualism, originates in the author’s fantasy and is transformed into a paradox: the reconstruction of a world that seems only possible through the impact of an asteroid.

By Álvaro de Benito

Carlos Castro (Bogotá, Colombia, 1981) arrives at La Cometa’s Madrid venue with Mythstories, an exhibition that delves into the validity of mythography as an active structuring force in contemporary societies. Employing a medieval aesthetic in the composition of the tapestries that materialize his work, the Colombian artist reinforces the idea that the genesis and support of myths remain present, just as they have always been, as constitutive narratives of history and historiography.

Ana González (Bogotá, Colombia, 1974) explores the significance of water as a medium, an environment, and a sacred entity in Llovizna, her solo exhibition at La Cometa’s Madrid venue. Rooted in the Muisca culture’s reverence for water as an integral part of sacred land, this element becomes the symbolic core of her exhibition. Through it, the artist reflects on its spiritual value while also exposing the harsh reality of the Bogotá River, using symbolism to prompt a deeper awareness of environmental degradation.

By Álvaro de Benito

The Madrid branch of La Cometa gallery presents during July the work of eight of its Ibero-American artists in a group show that delves into different languages and techniques, from ceramics to painting, and also includes dialogues with architecture and other productions. Three of those represented come from Spain, while of the five American representatives, four are Colombian and one is Cuban, which brings a representative vision of the gallery's artistic proposal closer to the spectator.

Quiebramales commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the conception of the David Quiebramales project. The exhibition at La Cometa gallery revisits the biopolitics that traverse the bodies affected by war, the structures that build (and destroy) a society, and education as a path to social justice.