2012 Corrugated Cardboard

RAFA DE CORRAL, THE METAPHYSICS OF THE URBAN For reasons that come to mind very closely followed the first steps of Bilbao painter Rafa de Corral, and now, a few years later, I have the aesthetic and intellectual fortune to behold his latest exhibition on show at the College of Architects Valencia. From the outset, I confess I was struck by the remarkable consistency of his creations developed during that time, fidelity to a poetics that started glued to the asphalt of the city we walk every day, maturity, ultimately, an artist of career, based in Valencia, can give a step in each sample from the apparent empty city without faces who wanted to draw when he offered his first individual exhibition in the late 90s. When writing this review I