LUMPENKULTAt the beginning of the last century the artistic institution known as Proletkult set out to create a genuinely proletarian aesthetic which should play a fundamental role in the construction of the new classless society. This project speculates on which kind of social organization could arise after the eventual disappearance of the middle and working classes in the West. Concepts like "precariat" or "cognitariat", coined to define what has come to replace the working class in post-Fordist society, may soon be considered nothing more than desperate attempts to update something that has ceased to exist as such, avoiding to recognize that this vacuum won't be filled by any postmodern category, but by the last stratum that has always been there although we would not want to see it: the lumpen.Lumpenkult is the reconstruction of a fictitious cultural movement from its own products: agitprop posters, pseudohistorical prints or architectural models that allow us to glimpse an exotic society in which the marginal class of today has become hegemonic, got consciuousness of its strength and begun to defend interests different from those of the former working class. True to its worldview, the victorious lumpen would not have hesitated to get rid of superfluous institutions or to sacrifice some material comfort in exchange for freeing itself from imposed values such as work worship or faith in progress and economic growth. |
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Spark of Freedom 2017 / 100 x 70 cm / Airbrush on brown paper |
Monument to the Last International 2017 / 155 x 63 x 63 cm / Cardboard, wood, plastic, tinfoil, string and wire |
Foundational Manifesto 2017 / 100 x 70 cm / Airbrush on brown paper |
Social Harmony 2017 / 100 x 70 cm / Airbrush on brown paper |
Wanderlust 2017 / 100 x 70 cm / Airbrush on brown paper |
Installation View Lumpenkult / Fúcares Gallery, Almagro / 2018 |
Installation View Lumpenkult / Fúcares Gallery, Almagro / 2018 |
Portrait of Doris 2017 / 83 x 62 cm / Airbrush and screenprint on paper |
Monument to the Unknown Vagabond 2017 / 170 x 105 x 240 cm / Cardboard, brown paper, tape and plastic stick |
Installation View Lumpenkult / Fúcares Gallery, Almagro / 2018 |
Installation View Lumpenkult / Fúcares Gallery, Almagro / 2018 |
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(De)Growth 2017 / 70 x 100 cm / Airbrush on brown paper |
Scarce Resources 2017 / 70 x 100 cm / Airbrush on brown paper |
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| Heroic Frieze 2017 / 196 x 440 cm / Airbrush and plastic paint on brown paper |
Classic Settlement 2017 / 140 x 78 x 100 cm / Cardboard, wood, paper, plastic and string |
Model Camp 2017 / 105 x 115 x 100 cm / Cardboard, wood and plastic |
Installation View Lumpenkult / Fúcares Gallery, Almagro / 2018 |
Installation View Lumpenkult / Fúcares Gallery, Almagro / 2018 |
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Extinction of the Gamusino and Other Species 2017 / 76 x 56 cm / Airbrush and screenprint on paper |
Money Pool 2017 / 50 x 40 cm / Airbrush and screenprint on paper |
Simulacra 2017 / 40 x 50 cm / Airbrush and screenprint on paper |
Water Poisoning 2017 / 40 x 50 cm / Airbrush and screenprint on paper |
Fancy Hoboness 2017 / Variable measures / Wooden stick and screenprinted fabric |
Job #1 2017 / 30 x 24 / Airbrush and screenprint on paper |
Job #2 2017 / 30 x 24 / Airbrush and screenprint on paper |
Job #3 2017 / 30 x 24 / Airbrush and screenprint on paper |
Job #4 2017 / 30 x 24 / Airbrush and screenprint on paper |
Henchmen (Job #5) 2017 / 40 x 50 cm /Airbrush and screenprint on paper |
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