Exhibitions
Indoor
Protect What You Love Solo Exhibition
Year
2022
Location
València, Spain
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Organized and managed by
Tuesday To Friday Gallery
Antonio Segura “Dulk” connects, with aesthetic and ethical wisdom, his creation of the Municipal Falla, finally planted in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento of Valencia in 2022, and this individual exhibition in the new Tuesday to Friday space, titled Protect what you love. The artist projects on to the exhibited pieces his reflections about the conservation of Nature; his understanding of the problem in a global way and from a deep attachment to his land, he considers that the natural habitat is a treasure that should not be destroyed. Dulk contributes with his artistic work to make the unavoidable fact visible, the need to protect what you love.
Protect what you love
Dulk paints as he dreams, with delicate pairs of cold and warm colors: cadmium yellows, oranges, yellowish ochres, and some broken carmine, opposed to light blue, bluish green, aquamarine, and violet. The Protect what you love painting condenses what is substantial in its two dimensions. The characters appear in a twilight world, illuminated by hope and critical awareness. The fifteen beautiful grayscale drawings articulate the entire exhibition, they are studies of emotions and expressiveness, portraits of the three main characters; the Grecian toucan, the first bird cured with a 3D printed prosthesis, made to reconstruct its broken beak due to animal abuse; the endearing polar bear melting and our beloved hooded, enigmatic little character, who guides and points out the very meaning of Nature: if we lose all knowledge about it, we also lose knowledge of humanity. The message, although repeated but no less urgent, must be corrected, changing our habits of life and consumption, to save the Earth…
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“An excellent example of symbiosis: ephemeral falla in the street, painting and sculpture, with works exhibited in the magnificent space of the gallery, this is real, contemporary art”
-Juan Canales, Universitat Politècnica de València
