MALAGA.- “Art is political per se” Wayne Gonzales has noted on more than one occasion, although he seeks to avoid standard viewpoints in order not to be considered a political artist. The CAC Málaga is now presenting the first exhibition of this artist’s work in Spain and one that includes two previously unexhibited works, Seated Crowd and Slingshot Boy, both of 2011. The dark backgrounds of Gonzales’s crowd scenes, with their sketchily defined faces and brushstrokes that create seemingly immobile, inexpressive figures, leave the viewer to decide on the true meaning of the work and we cannot know if these are images that depict some type of demonstration or whether they simply show people sitting down and waiting for a concert to start. For Fernando Francés, Director of the CAC Málaga: “The references to mystery and political conspiracies and to the