Julio Anaya Cabanding – Vincent Van Gogh. Wheatfield with Cypresses, 2022

The practice of Spanish painter and street artist Julio Anaya Cabanding presents a challenge to art history. On dog-eared pieces of cardboard and graffiti-laden walls, he reproduces masterpieces of Western art. In contrast with their environments and fragile substrates, his trompe-l’oeil establish trans-historical dialogues with the works of past masters such as Vincent Van Gogh. Irreverent in practice yet respectful in technique, Anaya Cabanding’s copies examine ideas to do with auctoriality (what pertains to an author’s personality), authenticity and ownership as well with the remits of the institutions that govern the worlds of historical and contemporary art, like the conservation and the transmission.

Also on view at the Fagor factories.