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RAFAEL AGREDANO (Córdoba, 1955). "Art is the persistence of memory". 1989. Mixed media on wood. Signed on the back. Size: 50 x 50 cm; 75 x 75 cm (frame). Themes such as memory and the finiteness of the human being are very present in the work of this artist from Cordoba, who in this painting with a changing image uses humour but also philosophical depth to dialogue with the pictorial tradition of his native land, while allegorising his vision of art as a mnemic process (related to the balance between forgetting and remembering). A founding member of the magazine "Figura", Rafael Agredano is one of the key artists of the Spanish art scene at the end of the 20th century. Throughout his career he has held solo exhibitions in Spain, France and Holland, in leading galleries such as Juana de Aizpuru, and has also participated in group exhibitions in other European countries. He is represented in the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, the Fundación La Caixa, the City Councils of Seville, Almagro and Carmona, the Marugame Hirai Museum in Japan, the Seville and Cordoba Provincial Councils, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava and the collection of the Community of Madrid. Esther Regueira, curator of the solo exhibition "Prologue" at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (2012), pointed out that Agredano "intends to make a narrative about memory", and underlined the dominant elements of Agredano's poetics: "the fascination with rituals, the use of myths, an easy wandering between high culture and popular culture. The concept of art as an element of enjoyment. For Agredano, art is a means of knowledge but also of enjoyment", explained Regueira.