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The Temptations of Courbet
From Courbet's dreams and fears
2017 - 2022
Courbet's temptations could be the life we dare not live:
the people we want to merge with or the places we want to travel despite the terror of throwing ourselves into the void.
José Luis Serzo uses the painter Gustav Courbet as an excuse to take us to a stage where pleasure, eroticism and guilt dance; a pictorial and sculptural reverie that teaches us the world without fuss or filters.
From the dreams and fears of Courbet imagined by Serzo we witness a study of erotica linked to fantasy, banished long ago from the sex we practice in this society of omniscreen.
Serzo studies in this exhibition the sexuality lived as a game and approaches the female anatomy with an authority that almost frightens; bodies that are landscapes, postures that are the stellar motion of the universe.
It fills them with pulsating iconographies, death masks, flowers, eroticized garlic and a sea of crimson curtains that crave skirts towards the madness of feeling, losing precisely the senses with it. And so, he tells us that to live intensely is also to approach death.
From the dreams and fears of Courbet imagined by Serzo we witness a study of erotica linked to fantasy, banished long ago from the sex we practice in this society of omniscreen.
Serzo studies in this exhibition the sexuality lived as a game and approaches the female anatomy with an authority that almost frightens; bodies that are landscapes, postures that are the stellar motion of the universe.
It fills them with pulsating iconographies, death masks, flowers, eroticized garlic and a sea of crimson curtains that crave skirts towards the madness of feeling, losing precisely the senses with it. And so, he tells us that to live intensely is also to approach death.
Lidón Sancho Ribés. Art critic and writer
- All
- Drawing
- Exhibitions
- Other media
- Painting
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The Survival of Desire
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Studio for muse-witch
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Playing Susan with some old men
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Little Sunrise
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The Spies of Creation
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The Temptations of Courbet
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The Muse of Courbet
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The other origin of Courbet
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The Liar
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The desired outcome
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She too
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The Liar
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Mr. Courbet
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Eros and Thanatos
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The bird muse of Courbet
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Allegory about life and death
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The Blue Hour
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The Courbet String
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Sooner or later… justice in hand
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Origin and destination
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Musa and the Teatrorum
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Woman and wild boar
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The (false) memories of the young Courbet
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Freedom strained
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The Muse of the Seine
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Project for installation in the Álvaro Alcázar gallery
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Fear and desire
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The hidden image
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Studio for a trio
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Study for polyptych of Courbet
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Courbet’s Journey
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The Secret Game
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The Secret Game of Obsession
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Smoke and cloud
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Courbet’s Teatrorum
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Courbet’s Dreams
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In the smoke of the pipe
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Polyptych of Courbet
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The Sin of Passion
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Studio for installation
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Study for a goddess with three suns
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Origin and destination. Mother earth.
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Exhibition of THE TEMPTATIONS OF COURBET. Álvaro Alcázar Gallery. 2022.
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Paradise was within
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Flowers and goddess
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The weight of mystery
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The memories of the skin
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The other is always to blame for guilt
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The Secret Creation
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Courbet’s Dreams
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Courbet between fear and desire
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The Secret Creation of Courbet’s Dreams and Fears
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Courbet about to wake up
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Those blissful flowers
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Essay for a great and glorious elevation of Courbet
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Nocturnal appearance
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Power and glory
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