Obra sobre papel, 1979-1999 (MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA)

A collection of Miquel Barcelo's graphic work -- a total of 250 ink drawings, watercolors, and other works on paper -- spanning a 20 year period of the outstanding artist's career. The main subject of Miquel Barcelo's work is the inexorable passage of time. The passing of time is certainly what is evoked by his images of sediments and germanations, of deserts and glaciers, deltas, beaches, oceans, and rivers...The self-taught Barcelo began his career as an artist in the late 1970s, the glory days of conceptual art... once he had adopted figuration, and no longer felt he had to justify it in conceptual terms, Barcelo's images became more complex, giving rise to his monsters.¨ Enrique Juncosa