Strategic redundancy zone

The exhibition Zona estratégica de redundancia, is the third solo show of Rubén Rodrigo (Salamanca, 1980) at the Fernando Pradilla Gallery.
On this occasion, the artist has worked with the architectural space of the rooms of the
gallery: its lintels, the opening of its doors, its bends and the height of its ceilings to
build not only the spatial arrangement of the works, but even the shape of the
frames; in this way, and as if it were a site-specific, Rubén establishes a game between the rigidity of architecture and the flexibility and voluptuousness of painting.
Six new large-format canvases are presented in which Rodrigo continues his
research on the soak painting technique using very thin layers of oil paint that shape the form and color of his paintings.
As the critic Carlos Delgado Mayordomo explains very well "Rubén Rodrigo's work is a direct heir to the modernist tradition, understood as a process of purification of that which is not substantial to the pictorial medium, that is, imitation or the literary. [...]
Rodrigo also attends to the achievements that were devalued by modernism, such as the symbolic intention, the scenic presence, the register of time or the transcendental dimension of the image
."
The new exhibition thus focuses on these aspects, both symbolic and those that
are properly pictorial, the surface, the color, the brushstroke, and the support that,
interacting with the architectural space, provide an aesthetic experience that shows the artistic maturity in which Rodrigo develops.