The exhibition of Bosco Caride (Vigo, Spain, 1963) revolves around a single and singular motif: atmospheric or gaseous states (clouds, smoke, steam…) which are shown without any spatial references or context. For the artist the subject is an affirmation of painting and relates to the great landscape tradition but with a contemporary sensibility. Turner, Constable, to mention the pioneers of the genre, and likewise subsequent generations and the Impressionists found inspiration in clouds and saw their artistic side. In effect, Bosco Caride has worked meticulously on these “atmospheric and gaseous states” as much on their composition as on their layers of glaze and colours... in the manner of a stylistic or pictorial hypothesis that is, in short, one of the most striking aspects of his oeuvre.

However, the title of the exhibition, “Indicios”, literally “signs of something”, “indications” introduces the idea of “something” beyond a stylistic device or abstract expression. This “something” is not visible and is hidden in the painting, or outside of it, yet it is the real cause of the “smoke”, none other than the explosion, the drama, the conflict, the pollution... Hence there is a definite symbolic side, political even, which envelops and bestows meaning to Bosco Caride’s oeuvre.

Bosco Caride has created an open-ended oeuvre that possesses many layers of interpretations as its “atmospheric or gaseous states”, like the night or the northern mist for romantics, are not an absence but a catalyst for meaning: it is the terrain of evocation, the door to the imagination. Yet, above all, for this very reason, Bosco Caride explores the notion of art as contemplation. He identifies with the contemporary tradition that views painting, although from a different sensibility, as reflection, a space of silence and a one-to-one dialogue with the artwork.

On the occasion of this exhibition, MARCO, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo, will edit a publication that, along with pictures of the artworks exhibited, will include texts by the artist, the curator, the museum’s director, and Ignacio Pérez-Jofre.