Ernesto Casero
Santiago Talavera
TODO VA A SALIR BIEN
11.04.25 to 13.06.25
Gabinete de dibujos
On April 11th, at Gabinete de dibujos, we are pleased to bring together Santiago Talavera and Ernesto Casero face-to-face in the exhibition Todo va a salir bien. This phrase, Everything Is Going to Be Fine—so overused and yet so useful for convincing ourselves that our problems will eventually be resolved, and that, as true masters of resilience, we will be strong in the face of adversity—is the title that both artists have chosen as a motto to venture into the exploration of the contemporary landscape.
Both Ernesto and Santiago, deeply aware of the collateral effects of humanity’s very existence, work through the concept of absence, using ellipsis in visual rhetoric through figures that are cut out and/or disappear. Where are the people who left so many traces, whom no one seems to miss? What became of all those species?
Let’s not worry too much, take a deep breath… Everything is going to be fine.
Santiago Talavera (Albacete, 1980) lives and works between Madrid and Galicia. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, having completed his final year at Camberwell College of Arts in London. His recent solo exhibitions include Hauntopolis (Nave Sotoliva, Santander, 2024), Things Happened So Fast It Was Hard to Keep Up With Them (Víctor Lope Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona, 2022), Let the Future Be Decided in Small Places (Lariot Collective, London, 2022), The Past Will Have Been a Strange Planet (Gabinete de dibujos, 2021)—which earned him the Best Exhibition Award at Abierto Valencia—and Hauntopolis (CEART Fuenlabrada, Madrid, 2020). His work has been shown at national and international contemporary art fairs such as UVNT, ESTAMPA, Arte Santander, Drawing Room, Art on Paper Amsterdam, Luxembourg Art Fair, and PINTA London; and is part of collections including SOLO, MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art in A Coruña), Generalitat Valenciana Collection, Jardin Rouge Montresso Art Foundation, and UNED.
Ernesto Casero (Valencia, 1977) has held solo exhibitions such as The Lost Plants (Gabinete de dibujos, 2021), A Not-So-Natural History (Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània, CCCC, Valencia, 2019); Hybrids (Centre d’Art Contemporain de Perpignan ACMCM, 2011); Better Humans Tomorrow! and Not Everything That Glitters Illuminates (Pazycomedias Gallery, Valencia, 2009 and 2015); and Plastiniasis (Galerie Metropolis, Paris, 2010). His work has been featured in international fairs such as Pinta Art Fair / Modern & Contemporary Latin Art Show in London, Just Mad, Drawing Now, Drawing Room, Art Paris, and Arte Santander. His work is part of collections including ACB Santander, DKV, Polytechnic University of Valencia, UNED, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos, Fundación Mainel, the Generalitat Valenciana Collection, and the Provincial Councils of Ciudad Real, Alicante, and Málaga.
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