{"id":22309,"date":"2026-06-11T18:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artapartamento.com\/?page_id=22309"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:31:05","slug":"mandragora-from-the-botanical-lego-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artapartamento.com\/en\/mandragora-from-series-botanical-lego\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandragora, from the Botanical Lego series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mandragora, from the Botanical Lego series, 2026<\/p>

Black Star pencil and transfer on Hahnem\u00fcller paper 450 g\/m 2<\/p>

34 x 24 cm (12.5 x 9.4 in)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00abRuy L\u00f3pez Opening\u00bb<\/em>\u00a0This is Eduardo Ponju\u00e1n\u2019s first exhibition in Madrid.\u00a0The dialogue with the European and Spanish cultural context is inevitable in this exhibition, with nods to Goya, Picasso, Fra Angelico, Caspar Friedrich, Vel\u00e1zquez, Van Gogh\u2026 who believed in the aesthetic delight of chess due to its ability to combine intellectual rigor with chance and play. In his words, the purity of chess is not limited to its inability to be commercialized; it extends to the movement of the pieces across the board as an expression of thought. Thought, which in Ponju\u00e1n is always projected as aesthetics, grounded in the awareness of its negative freedom (Isaiah Berlin) in the face of a world increasingly headed toward dystopias.<\/p>

True to form, Ponju\u00e1n returns to his exploration of representation, with a touch of skepticism. His art analysis is marked by visual heterodoxy and an indiscriminate focus on drawing, painting, objects, or installations. His approach responds to a post-conceptual mindset, one of rationalizing the creative process, now in the service of a cynical relationship with the new \u201cparadigm of reality\u201d that drives the digitization, virtualization, and aestheticization of the real. A simulacrum that rests on the superiority of the false.<\/p>

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Mandr\u00e1gora, from series Botanical Lego, 2026 Black Star pencil and transfer on Hahnem\u00fcller paper 450 g\/m 2 34 x 24 cm (12.5 x 9.4 in) \u00abApertura Ruy L\u00f3pez\u00bb\u00a0es la primera exposici\u00f3n de Eduardo Ponju\u00e1n en Madrid.\u00a0El di\u00e1logo con el contexto cultural europeo y espa\u00f1ol es inevitable en esta pasarela\u00a0con gui\u00f1os a Goya, Picasso, Fra Ang\u00e9lico, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18894,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-22309","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eduardo-ponjuan","tag-obra","post","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-large"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t