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Institut Valencia d’Art Modern presents the Mythographies of Gianluigi Colin

VALENCIA.- With this exhibition proposal of the work of Gianluigi Colin, which comprises 26 drawings divided into four groups, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Mercury, and a large installation, The Wall, made up of 300 oil paintings on canvas, the Institut Valencia d’Art Modern addresses an analysis of the role of myths in today’s society. The themes chosen by Colin are taken from everyday life and reflect the realities of a time in which the trivial has become the main object of interest. Colin interprets myths not as aesthetic forms but as elements immersed in a social, cultural or historic ensemble, possessing a sense, a meaning or a representative value of this reality, as we can see in the exhibition. A catalogue has been published for the show containing the works displayed and texts by Vincenzo Trione, Gianluigi Colin, Humberto Galimberti, Arturo Pérez Reverte and Consuelo Císcar. Gianluigi Colin bases his Mitografías (Mythogr