Ángel Aragonés

It has been repeated once and again that Aragonés is a devourer or or a recycler of images - that is pop, really -, but perhaps upon a closer examination of his work there are different conclusions. Already in 1973, Cerdán Tato was able to see that "the perseverant and laborious investigation of the plastic space and its own functionality, have enriched the expressive possibilities of the artist to overwhelming limits" and that, more than festival of icons, Aragonés proposes " an absolute lucid and responsible work, a normative and rationalized work, so much so that even when the influences arrive, within the context of the present indigenous pictorial tendencies (...), his methodology and search of logical analyses lend a coherence that release him, ideologically speaking, of ambiguities and indeterminateness ". Ángel Aragonés does not take control of anything: the soul of the silk-screen prints that we now contemplate is made of the lines that the artist draws up in his rational deconstruction of the icon, and their heart is the geometric forms that amazingly register in the figure and its surroundings, barking to its rhythm of and proclaiming their truth or its suitability as formal synthesis and genesis of new pictorial formulations.

Javier Rubio Nomblot
Art Criticizes Spanish Association