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Miguel Ángel Rojas: The Night
Five decades of work by Colombian artist Miguel Ángel Rojas, spanning early installations on rural migration to contemporary pieces addressing narco-trafficking and Amazon exploitation.
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Preview: written before the show opened
For Grano, Miguel Ángel Rojas took soil from Tolima, the rural region his family came from, and used it on a gallery floor to remake the floor of the house where his grandparents lived. He first made it in 1980, and it is one of the installations in this survey of his fifty-year career, on floor 0 of the Sabatini Building.
The title names two kinds of dark: the half-light of the cinemas where men met strangers, a subject of his early work, and the black charcoal of his recent maps of an Amazon worn down by extraction. You start with the recent work and walk back towards his roots. On the way are works about Colombia's drug trade and its war, among them David (2004), made with a soldier who lost a leg to a landmine.
The show opens on 11 November. Tickets are €12, and entry is free Monday to Saturday 19:00 to 21:00 and Sunday 12:30 to 14:30.
Look for
Grano (Grain), 1980
Look down: the floor of his grandparents' house in Tolima, remade on the gallery floor in soil gathered from the region.
El camino corto (The Short Road), 2012
Circles cut from coca leaves and dollar bills spell out the names of famous people known for drug use beside the aliases of the most violent drug lords.
David, 2004
Black-and-white photographs of a young soldier, nude on a pedestal in the pose of Michelangelo's David, missing the leg a landmine took.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Evening Visits
With kids
Under-18s are free with ID at the ticket office. The show includes nude photographs of a soldier maimed by a landmine and works about drug violence.
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Image credits
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- Miguel Ángel Rojas: The NightCourtesy Galería La Cometa
- We Are Nature: An Immersive Audiovisual ExperienceCourtesy of CaixaForum Madrid
- Museo Reina SofíaMuseoreinasofia, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- CaixaForum MadridDraceane / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museo del PradoEmilio J. Rodríguez Posada (Emijrp), via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Museo Thyssen-BornemiszaLuis García (Zaqarbal), CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo NavalFernando, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0