Miguel Aguirre

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Pinturas Negras

This series of small paintings is literally and metaphorically dark (here, Aguirre has made almost no use of white paint), requiring a certain effort to read what is depicted here due to the particular pictorial veil that conceals it. This is his own peculiar series of “black paintings”: eleven images depicting the actions carried out by the government of George W. Bush and his hawks immediately following the attacks of September 11: a war against the Taliban in Afghanistan; the invasion of Iraq, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, and the ensuing absurdities: torture and humiliation at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, widespread spying under the USA PATRIOT Act, and the emergence of Assange, Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and the WikiLeaks website.

Ángel Vega

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