[From 28th of OCTOBER to 20th of DICEMBER. Exhibition at the Instituto Quevedo de las Artes del Humor]
The History of Cinema According to Paco Alcázar
A look at Paco Alcázar’s (known for his work in El Jueves, Orgullo y Satisfacción, Cinemanía, etc.) unique take on the seventh art. It is a historiography in which Buñuel dances hand-in-hand with Paul Naschy, and American cinema is distilled down to just two names: John Carpenter and Nicolas Cage—the latter being one of the exhibition’s central stars. A collection of 108 portraits, spanning his entire career, forms the world’s largest gallery dedicated to this histrionic actor. To top it all off, there is a selection of musical pieces composed for the occasion—drawing from the best of our own cinema—along with a series of original texts by writer and critic Rubén Lardín to accompany the exhibition.
"To draw films is to sit down and think about them. It is also an act of memory—a lingering trace of fetishism, a childlike impulse that Alcázar has carried with him from his own youth (...) Immersed in this process, he continues to reclaim the films that once captivated him, returning them to the world in the form of new representations—drawings that are, in their relative simplicity and radical clarity, able to unpack the essence of cinema in a way that words rarely manage to do." Rubén Lardín.
