As part of the Flash program of Barcelona Gallery Weekend, ADN Galeria presents The paradox of no, a group exhibition featuring works by Carlos Pazos, George Brecht, and Robert Filliou. The exhibition, which features an exhibition text written by Manuel Borja-Villel, will be open to the public from Thursday, September 18, at 12 pm.
How to avoid a piece of art turning in merchandise? Does the world need more objects? Should things and experiences continue to be compulsively produced? These were some of the questions that not few thinkers and activists asked themselves in the decade of the sixties, when it became clear that the economy and social relations revolved around consumption. Life wasn’t organized around the factory but the shopping center. And a new proletariat, without fixed schedules and with apparent freedom, started to occupy the public sphere, now transformed into a space for advertising.
Robert Filliou, Georges Brecht and others, such as Dieter Roth, Dorothy Iannone or Marcel Broodthaer, formed a network of artists that, from diverse perspectives and ways of doing, proposed alternatives to a present in which they did not recognize themselves, creating a powerful and active community located between Antwerp, Amsterdam, Dusseldorf and Cologne. Carlos Pazos did not participate in this network. However, the concerns of the aforementioned authors vibrate in his work.
