Aragonese artist Sergio Muro will inaugurate the new Madrid venue of Galería Nueva with an exhibition featuring more than 20 large-format paintings and 10 recent drawings. The exhibition will run from October 19 to November 8 at 17 San Mateo Street, in Madrid’s Justicia neighborhood.
Sergio Muro opens Galería Nueva’s new venue in the Justicia neighborhood
The exhibition’s official opening will take place on Tuesday, October 20, at 7:00 p.m., in the presence of the artist. Admission will be free, and the venue will be open Tuesday through Saturday during regular business hours.
The opening of Galería Nueva’s new venue will be supported by the Festival Abierto de Acción and Artix Espacio Creativo. The exhibition presents Muro’s recent paintings as the first show at the new Madrid space.
More than 30 recent works celebrating everyday pleasures
The exhibition brings together a body of more than 20 large-format paintings and 10 small-format drawings, all recently created. The project revisits Sergio Muro’s visual-art roots and extends the line of his previous Zaragoza exhibition, Hedonistic Existence.
His works explore everyday actions associated with pleasure and well-being, such as reading, walking the dog, running in nature, listening to music, having coffee, or making love. Color, vitality, and bold outlines define a recognizable visual language within figurative painting.
Cultural manager María Horno highlights the new, fresh, and pleasurable nature of his work. Meanwhile, artist Domix Garrido interprets Muro’s oeuvre as an expression of freedom, happiness, and beauty.
Jesús Pedro Lorente, professor of contemporary art at the University of Zaragoza, underscores his use of human figures, vivid colors, and silhouettes outlined in black. Lorente links these paintings to Gauguin’s maniera cloisonné, pointing to such features as arbitrary use of color, naïve primitivism, naturalistic mysticism, provocation, and voluptuousness.
The international career of Zaragoza artist Sergio Muro
Sergio Muro San José, born in Zaragoza in 1974, works as a visual and performance artist as well as a cultural manager. He has organized shows, festivals, and exhibitions, and was a candidate for deputy artistic director of Madrid’s Reina Sofía Museum and a finalist to lead the Picasso Museum in Málaga.
He recently served as cultural director for Burgos 2031’s European Capital of Culture bid. His career includes more than 150 performances in cities including Copenhagen, London, Dublin, Venice, Marseille, Kyoto, New York, Madrid, and Barcelona.
Muro has taken part in several editions of ARCO at the Aragón stand and in Art Madrid during its 20th anniversary. He has also created murals for the European Union, exhibited at the IAACC Museo Pablo Serrano and at various galleries, and received a grant from Spain’s Ministry of Culture in Dublin, where he wrote Contemporánea –the ecstasy of beauty–. His publications include De tal perro tal artista, his most recent book.
