Whilst Sophie and I were on our travels this summer we came across this brilliant exhibition in Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. The show consisted of works from Madrid's Figurative Movement in the 1970s. The movement was made up of a group of artists dubbed the Schizos because of their theoretical underpinnings. We loved the exhibition because these Schizos distributed their work through fanzines, newsletters and handmade books! There were cabinets rammed full of them...each one beautifully made and often hilarious! There were also photographs, paintings and drawings that seemed to all have the a skewed vision of Madrid and Spain in that period. ( Spain was just coming out of the Franco regime at that point.) Most of the stuff was popartesque, because of its colour and liveliness. The show even featured Ed Ruscha and Richard Hamilton, But was mostly dominated by the work of Carlos Alcolea, Herminio Molero and Javier Utray. If you are interested in fanzines and art distribution you should definitely check out these names!
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