NASTI DE PLASTI
Wed, Nov 15
|Madrid
"Nasti de Plasti" is the solo show of Alejandra de la Torre (Castellón de la Plana, 1983), a young Valencian artist curated by Sara Zaldívar for the Espinasse31 gallery in Madrid.


Time and Place
Nov 15, 2023, 7:00 PM
Madrid, C. de Fúcar, 17, 28014 Madrid, Spain
About
"Nasti de Plasti" is the solo show of Alejandra de la Torre (Castellón de la Plana, 1983), a young Valencian artist curated by Sara Zaldívar for the Espinasse31 gallery in Madrid.
This exhibition, fun and carefree, aims to highlight the cultural clash that was experienced in the late 80s and until the late 90s, where everyday Spanish life coexisted with trends imported from the United States, such as Nike Air shoes, track suits, or fluorescent colors. Two contrasting styles, the old-fashioned versus the cool, the kitschy versus the modern, the local versus the imported, the news versus the music videos...
They say that the past was better, or is it that, with time, we idealize that stage of life? We rely on objects, scents, sensations to try to shape a memory, without being entirely sure if what we remember is real or a sugar-coated product of our imagination. We don't…