Salvador Cidras: Consuming Youth

Salvador Cidrás (born Vigo 1968) is showing his most recent work in Espacio Distrito Cu4tro under the title Consuming Youth / Consumiendo juventud. The work consists of two schemes of drawing entitled, “The other” and “Situations”.

Cidrás makes his drawings on large pieces of paper which when put together form a large shady patch growing across the wall. Using different media (video, mural painting and drawing) he composes a unified image which is broken up in the detail.

The drawings in “The other” show an adolescent in an oddly passive attitude, robotic and personifying the stereotypes and desires of the adult world, the mythical image of the eternal adolescent, of gilded youth. They explore a sequential structure which will bring the whole together. “I took as a guide press documents, fanzines, magazines and posters so that the image emerges from the black background…”

“Situations” are drawings in ink in which the spaces where people are placed are made by superimposing strips of wire netting. They are drawings about moments, from the cursory glance when walking rapidly, to the fencing around a recreation area. Blue or green drawings, because, “I wanted to keep in the drawing this recollection of colour such that I thought of blocking out the white background by wrapping the whole thing in a casing of coloured acrylic. The finished result makes the drawing more three dimensional than flat.”

Salvador Cidrás became known in the mid nineties with a series of sculptures and drawings recording the epidermis of the natural world. The continuous process of experimentation characteristic of his work – with materials, shapes, representations, structures and reflections – has underpinned a strong career. He has exhibited in the Gallician Centre of Contemporary Art (Santiago de Compostela, in Coruña 2002), in the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid (Espacio UNO 2002), and benefited from bursaries from the Botin Foundation and Generaciones Caja de Madrid (2000). His work is featured in the collections of CGAT in Santiago de Compostela, the Caixa Vigo collection and the Union Collection Fenosa, among.

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Salvador Cidras: Consuming Youth / Consumiendo Juventud