There is a Fine Line Between Genius & Insanity But You Snorted It

Bosco Sodi / Jorge Galindo / Richie Culver
There is a fine line between genius and insanity but you snorted it
19.03 – 07.05.2022

Galeria Fernando Santos presents the group exhibition “There’s a fine line between genius & insanity… but you snorted it” with works by the artists Bosco Sodi, Jorge Galindo and Richie Culver.

The title, taken from a work by the English artist Richie Culver, is a provocation to the art market, acting as a dynamic vector that runs through the guiding lines of the works of these three artists.
However they cannot be thought of as parallels, but rather as autonomous entities, with their own characteristics that occasionally find common marks.

In Bosco Sodi we face the materiality of color, with its volume and even with the performative act associated with the conception of the works of the Mexican artist. 
Monochromatic and almost sculptural, these works differ from those by the Spanish artist Jorge Galindo, where what stands out is the polychromatism.

One should not forget that the artist works between figuration and abstraction, but always having color as the primary instrument in the transmission of his concept. We can, however, notice that both Bosco Sodi and Jorge Galindo take the physical act of applying color – and the color itself – as inseparable characteristics of their work.
The creations of both have aspects that are suitable with the current consumption of the artwork and that social networks amplify: fast and epidermal. 
If these (Galindo’s) illustrate the shared posts, the works of Richie Culver are the text that gives them meaning in a world that is less and less tolerant with the word, which gives rise to an exhibition that very well resembles the social media feeds, the main source of outputs today. 

Together, the works of Galindo and Culver, or Culver and Sodi, reflect the culture of “memes”, but also allude to street art. Culver, with the reference to graffiti, and Galindo, with the glued posters that characterize an yet unfinished period of his artistic production (one in connection with the bohemia of Berlin and the other with the movida of Madrid), in different times and contexts, and bring them to the interior of the Art Gallery.

The Gallery thus becomes the feed of a social network in what can be another way of understanding Contemporary Art, without, however, neglecting the critic of its forms of consumption and the market that is inseparable from it.

There’s a fine line between genius and insanity but you snorted it