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Vallery
Is the Gallery Shop of Vasava. Located in the Barcelona's city center. It features exhibition by outstanding artists, graphic designers and illustrators.
Javier de La Rosa
Limited edition. 02 Exhibition, Vallery by Vasava.
Vallery.
With the same speed as that with which real Spanish cultural baggage is slowly shaking off the tyranny of paella, bullfighting and flamenco, a figure that has always existed in the subconscious of the Iberian Peninsula and that has exploded like a petrol bomb in the last twenty-five years now enters the arena and settles there in style: the chorizo ibérico. And no, we don’t mean the spicy cured pork sausage commonly found lounging between two hunks of bread, but the other variety – chorizo meaning crook, the archetypal Spanish criminal. Great losers of Spanish history whose charisma, derring-do, bare-faced cheek, stupidity or nerve have earned them a place of honour in the ever complex encyclopaedia of home-grown delinquents, a historical figure that started off with the picaresque in the novel Lazarillo de Tormes and reached its pop heights with heroes of the rip-off, theft and the backhander like El Dioni or Cachuli: a huge selection of choice cuts and crooks who made the desire to make money and the lack of respect for other people’s property a matter of priority. From the ‘70s Riejus of the outer-city yobs to the BMWs of the post-yuppies turned swanky outlaws, the chronicle of Hispanic thievery is fuelled by antiheroes who, more than from grace, have fallen into grace with Spanish society, and have become pop icons for the direct descendents of Felipismo. It matters not a jot that we have gone from robbery at knifepoint, bag-snatching and hold-ups in tobacconists’ to bank frauds worth millions, the indiscriminate hijacking of public funds and large-scale industrial espionage, that we have gone from learning Romany slang to making our own such terms and concepts as embezzlement, bribery or misappropriation, political straw man, forgery or get-rich-quick culture. What’s really important here is knowing that Spain is still an inexhaustible mine of crooks, freeloaders and slick-haired bandits that, whether we like it or not, have given us moments of real fun and delight over the years. This is a personal, light-hearted tribute to our favourite homegrown rogues: cult figures who, undoubtedly, have sold their souls to the Devil to survive the history of this country.
Limited edition print, special paper.
Color: CMYK
Size: 40 x 75 cm.
Red meth-acrylate frame, limited edition.
Formato: 65 x 110 x 0,5 cm.
Certification of Authenticity detailed and signed.
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