Ángeles Agrela: The Paradoxes of the Aura

CICA Vancouver is thrilled to publish Ángeles Agrela’s solo exhibition catalogue The Paradoxes of the Aura. Featuring text by renowned artist and professor Fernando Castro Flórez. 

In the vast and ever-evolving realm of contemporary art, Ángeles Agrela emerges as a beacon who intertwines the venerable traditions of classical painting with the nuanced undercurrents of contemporary feminist semiotics. Rooted firmly in the fertile historiography of Spain’s artistic legacy, Agrela offers an avant-garde perspective, inviting audiences to a tableau wherein obscurantism and epiphany merge.

The exhibition catalogue “Las paradojas del aura <The Paradoxes of the Aura>” features 20 artworks from 2014 to 2023, tracing the evolution of Agrela’s artistic journey. Her artistic endeavors present a syncretic fusion of historical reverence and contemporaneous innovation. Each composition invites an epistemological quest, urging an unravelling of the layered narratives concealed therein. Within her domain, every nuance, every chromatic variation, every obscured countenance proffers a profound dialogue, awaiting the engagement of the erudite observer.

This publication was produced to commemorate the exhibition, The Paradoxes of the Aura, at CICA Vancouver Sep 29th, 2023 – Nov 4th, 2023.

Original illustrations and catalogue designed by Zoë Hartwick. Photography by Dennis Ha.

Published by CICA Vancouver Centre of International Contemporary Art Society.