The Jorge Rando Museum celebrates its 10th anniversary with a new exhibition

The Museum Jorge Rando presents for its tenth anniversary an innovative exhibition setup that allows the art viewer a more intimate and profound dialogue, delving into Jorge Rando's New Expressionism. The exhibition hosts two notions from the Contemporary Testament of the Arts (2016) by the master from Malaga, drawing and a word, the Apocalypse.

Jorge Rando presented on December 1, 2016, the Manifesto: Contemporary Testament of the Arts, an invitation to all artists to participate in a new concept of expression whose intention is to help society prioritize humanist and spiritual values.

When on December 1, 2016, I read at the Museum Jorge Rando my Manifesto: Contemporary Testament of the Arts, I start with a word, for me, key in the future of humanity… Apocalypse. The Apocalypse is the last book of the Bible… but the Apocalypse is not the end… the Apocalypse is the beginning. … I want to paint life… I want to paint the Apocalypse… How can one paint the Apocalypse? … I will take up brushes and paints and surrender to the infinite from life, from truth… even if I have to resurrect it.

Some of the works from the exhibition / L.O.

Jorge Rando

 At eighty-three years old, the painter embarks on his creation and reveals it to us through a unique piece. A butterfly flying over a colorful arcadia. When we contemplate the canvas with the word Apocalypse in mind, whether from the perspective of faith or anthropology, we must find in it a message of hope. As its own nomenclature announces, it is a Revelation. In these times of disorder, the Apocalypse warns us that there may be events that seem meaningless at first human glance but that if we strive, we can discover where their occurrence is pointing. And not only in relation to catastrophes and suffering but in the deepest actions of being, like love.

On one wall we face a single work. A call for attention with clear intent, to dignify drawing. Jorge Rando, founder of New Expressionism, demands drawing as a foundation. As he stated in proclamation XIV of his Manifesto: "We want to place drawing in the position it should occupy and that we have always defended, given that its spontaneity is very close to the spiritual in the artist".

The painter demands our full attention and a certain resolve, so that we seek the drawing and find it. And he has chosen this work, a Maternity. Let us contemplate. "In the line is the expression of movement," he tells us, referring to the different ways children walk. The strokes go back and forth on the paper, appearing or hiding but the idea remains intact. "Everything is there because there is the drawing", he insists. "Even in abstraction". "Drawing does not have to be a copy of reality, drawing is the basis of the essence of art", he points out accurately.

An exhibition with an exquisite selection of works, some of them unpublished, from different cycles and periods that Jorge Rando did not want to classify under any title, but which have two fundamental intentions: to present the drawing with its own independence in art and to reveal the beginning of another philosophical questioning in his creation: The Apocalypse.