El Roto. One Cannot Watch Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Andrés Rábago, " El Roto" author of the drawings José Manuel Matilla, Museo Nacional del Prado Senior Curator Drawings and Prints and curator of the exhibition comments: "El Roto. One Cannot Watch".

One cannot watch is the title given by Andrés Rábago (Madrid, 1947), El Roto, to this collection of drawings executed specifically to be displayed at the Museo del Prado, where Solo la voluntad me sobra, an exhibition of Goya’s drawings, is running.

The title proposed by El Roto for this show is taken precisely from a drawing from Goya’s Sketchbook C, which is on view only a few metres directly below. The work of Goya, with whom Rábago shares the same caustically critical eye, is the point of departure for El Roto’s calm and collected in-depth reflection on the unchangeability of human stupidity and our society’s moral decline.

Subtitles in English and Spanish are available.