The Colombian Álvaro Barrios is one of Latin America’s most famous pop artists, with a bizarre obsession with Marcel Duchamp. Galería Fernando Pradilla had a tiny show of his recent Lichtenstein-esque work: a sequence of rainbow-bright comic book extracts, in which Duchamp pops up in the artist’s surreal, neon dreams.
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Sueños ilustrados (Soné que el filme “Sueños que el dinero puede comprar…”), 2013
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The show’s title comes from the Hans Richter film, which Barrios references in another comic book dream in candy pink.
I dreamed that the film “Dreams That Money Can Buy”, by Hans Richter, set in New York in 1945, was made so that the public bought my “Dreams with Marcel Duchamp”.
This one is my favourite…
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| La multiplicación de los cuadros, 2012 |
I dreamed that some apostles were gathering famous paintings from a stormy sea. The assemblage “Bicycle Wheel”, by Marcel Duchamp, was being used as the helm for the ship where the fishermen were sailing. That day, the fishing was so abundant that five museums of the world could be filled.
