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On Playing with Repetition and the Compulsion toward Originality – Esther Ruelfs
On Playing with Repetition and the Compulsion toward Originality. The Painting of Alfredo Álvarez Plágaro For several years now, Alfredo Álvarez Plágaro has been calling his works on canvas “Identical Paintings.” In 1992 1991 he showed them in two parallel exhibitions...
Plágaro, 24 years on – Miguel Fernández-Cid
“Since I did my first two identical paintings I have never gone back to painting pictures that were supposedly different” (Plágaro, 2012) What could lead a 28-year-old artist to announce that, from that moment on, he would only paint identical pictures? Why did he...
Alfredo Álvarez Plágaro: A Passionate Dadaist – Klaudija Kosanović
Alfredo Álvarez Plágaro: A Passionate Dadaist Rhythmic color fields pulsate in the Identical Paintings of Alfredo Álvarez Plágaro. Horizontally, vertically or diagonally they meet up, delimiting or overlapping one another in complex relationships evoking tension or...
Because nothing is certain – Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe
Reflections on the Identical Paintings of Alfredo Álvarez Plágaro I. Time after time Alfredo Álvarez Plágaro paints again his Identical Paintings. Identical pictures, hung above or beside each other with uniform spaces between them, compose together a single work,...
Repetition as Freedom – Erich Franz
On the “Identical Paintings” of Alfredo Álvarez Plágaro Plágaro firmly and ineluctably transforms the traditional relationship between spectator and painting. His Identical Paintings at once carve up and reproduce the image field, so that the gaze is neither focused...
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