EXHIBITION: 'What Remains of the Day' by Paco Conesa. Town Hall Hall

What's left of the day

Paco Conesa

“What remains of the day” is born from an intimate gesture and, at the same time,

profoundly generous on the part of the artist's heirs: to open the

study of Paco Conesa, painter from La Unión (Murcia), and explore what

Silence fell after his death. Among accumulated folders of drawings

for decades and rolled-up fabrics that still retain the trace of the gesture,

A universe emerges that speaks not only of an artistic trajectory, but of a

way of being in the world.

Far from being conceived as a comprehensive review—a task that will fall to

future historians—, this exhibition proposes a free, almost

wandering, following the traces of his work. A conscious wandering through fragments,

intuitions and findings that allow us to glimpse the complexity and coherence

of his pictorial language.

For this, three creators from different generations, Julia Bermúdez —

direct disciple of Conesa— Martín Lejarraga and Ángel Mateo Charris, have

assumed the role of mediators. Their perspective, necessarily subjective,

delves into the legacy not as someone who organizes an archive, but as someone who

Listen, select, and discuss. In this process, personal memory, the

Admiration and aesthetic conversation intertwine, giving rise to a

open and vibrant narrative.

The result is an exhibition that does not intend to close anything, but rather to open everything up.

On the contrary: to open up questions. What remains of an artist when their work

Does it remain scattered? What stories are activated when other creators approach

their traces? How is a shared memory built from

fragments?

Before this collection of materials dissolves into the sands of time,

This exhibition offers one last chance to stop, look, and let go.

To question the work of Paco Conesa. Also to show the scaffolding he provided.

giving rise to his aesthetic corpus and his achievements in the field of stage design,

especially in the world of theater in Galicia, and religious imagery, of

which is evidenced by his works for Holy Week in La Unión. And above all, his

relationship with the body, especially the male model, central axis of

his painted work, which positions him as a representative of queer culture

the last few decades.

Visiting hours:

Monday: Closed

Tuesday to Friday: morning 10:00-13:30. afternoon 17:00-19:00

Saturdays: morning 10:00-13:30. afternoon: 17:00-20:00

Sundays: morning 10:00-13:30. Afternoon closed

Holidays: tomorrow 10:00-13:30.