Until November 19, Eduardo Arroyo will be showcasing his work at the walls of the Maeght Foundation. Considered one of the great Spanish artists of his generation, Eduardo Arroyo depicts humanity through a play of images whose origin is both society and History, the history of art, or literature.
Also a writer, Eduardo Arroyo has chosen the title of the exhibition at the Maeght Foundation with particular care, blending absurdity and irony: “In Keeping with Traditions.”
The Maeght Foundation offers a thematic journey of works created since 1964, comprising famous paintings and previously unseen canvases, including a series specially produced for this exhibition. It also features numerous drawings, a collection of sculptures, including “modeled stones” and assemblages, between fiction and reality, such as a series of hybrid heads.
In Eduardo Arroyo’s work, art takes on the character of a political, philosophical, or social fable, as he seeks to represent the games, signs, languages, and epic songs of the powers pursued by humanity,” explains Olivier Kaeppelin, director of the foundation.
Associated with the Narrative Figuration movement that developed in Europe in the early 1960s, Eduardo Arroyo, as a committed artist, rejects any complacent beautification of art and images. He advocates for the exemplary nature of a work. He wants his painting to be accessible to the widest audience.
Eduardo Arroyo uses the images produced by our societies. He has always used them to demonstrate the efficacy of art against ideologies, particularly when he left Francoist Spain in 1958 to exile himself in Paris.
