With the exhibition of Julio Blancas (Gran Canaria, 1967), Galería Artizar inaugurates its new Madrid space, located at Doctor Fourquet Street, 6, opening a venue conceived as a place for dialogue, reflection, and continuity between territories, generations, and artistic languages. This first exhibition is not only a starting point for the gallery in the capital, but also a statement of intent: a commitment to artists whose work is built on persistence, rigor, and a deeply personal poetics.

The exhibition brings together a selection of recent works that offer insight into some of the essential cores of Blancas’s practice. Among them are at least three of his now iconic parabolic antennas, meticulously intervened with pencil, as well as several of his large graphite forests on canvas, works that condense years of formal and conceptual research. In all of them, drawing—understood not as an auxiliary technique but as an autonomous language—becomes an exercise in time, endurance, and concentration.

This exhibition, which opens on Thursday, January 15, and will be on view until March 14, marks the beginning of a new stage for Galería Artizar in Madrid. Doing so in collaboration with Julio Blancas affirms a way of understanding art as process, as insistence, and as an act of resistance against the ephemeral. A beginning that invites us to pause, look slowly, and listen to what time, deposited in drawing, still has to say.