Amnesia, 2015

Sanmiguel Diest (Zaragoza, 1949) has for years combined his work as pattern maker in Aranda de Duero (Burgos) with artistic activity. His vast repertoire of drawings and paintings is guided by a systematic method that evidences the conflicts and visual tensions that emerge from mixing, superposing, or placing image and text face to face. The exhibition organized by the Reina Sofía Museum at the Palacio de Velázquez in Madrid collects up to 130 pieces of his career from the late 1980s until today under the title ‘La peripecia del autómata’ (The Vicissitudes of the Automaton), with the intention of showing his unique way of questioning the contemporary modes of production and his conception of time...[+]