CANARIAS 19-20 is an experience in the spaces of memory, the memory that the art made in the Canary Islands during a century and a half has materialized in the works of twenty-two artists who are part of the insular tradition. They are not, therefore, unknown artists in our cultural sphere (although time has made some of them more invisible than others) since, with the exception of Alejandro Ossuna y Saviñon, all the artists represented in this exhibition already have a monograph on their life and work in the Biblioteca de Artistas Canarios (BAC), which has been published by the Canary Islands Government since 1991.
César Manrique
Sin título, 1986
If, as we have warned, CANARIAS 19-20 is an invitation to memory, the transit through the thirty or so works that constitute it -some of them shown for the first time in years- should not be passive, but rather an exercise of “reconstruction” where the possible or impossible, essential or anecdotal, visible or invisible links that we illuminate along the way are the substance and nourishment of our experience.