The series with Oscar Martínez created by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn (“Nada”, “The Manager”, “The Man Next Door”) improves in its second season and leaves open the possibility of a third with an inexhaustible universe like that of the art.
Slugs as sentient beings and detractors who think that these bugs suffer as in a concentration camp; an artist who creates an alter ego of an elderly Iranian woman to have a place in a museum that, being a man, European and heterosexual, ignores him; a performer who screams, breaks everything and that’s why she gets paid; a homeless man who begs for alms at the door of the museum that they set up as a facility to transfer money to him; champagne glasses bought at a Chinese store for a tenth of what they cost as a work of art; white-collar scammers; a thrown chair that attracts as if it were not a chair. Art as a mirror of hypocrisy and the new paradigms that oppress as much as the heterdoxy of yesteryear.
“Humanity is reaching its peak of stupidity,” he says. Oscar Martinez in one of his reflections as the director of Midam, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid created especially for the series “Fine arts”. Its second season far surpasses the first in several aspects. First of all, it adds notable actors such as Miguel Ángel Solá, unbeatable as a former Honduran dictator in a wheelchair demanding the display of his mother’s manger and Imanol Arias like an art dealer.
Secondly, the six chapters are as round in their self-contained stories as they are comprehensive in the arcs of the main characters embodied by Martinez, Angela Molina as a sullen and unfriendly plastic artist who had an affair with Martínez 40 years ago, Aixa Villagran momo the assistant Martinez who reveals his secrets almost at the end of the season and Fernando Arbizu like the neighbor Martinez which is so reminiscent of the contrast of characters in “The Man Next Door”. They also highlight Koldo Olabarri as the museum curator and Dani Rovira like the lawyer.
In movies and series Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn Everything looks beautiful, using careful photography, art and plans thought out in detail so that the symmetry looks perfect. Collaborating with this mission is the large number of paintings, sculptures, installations and the museum’s own architecture that enhance the visual aspect, while the exterior plans of Madrid, the facades and the interiors of the spaces become paintings in themselves. Towards the end of the last chapter the sculpture of Leon Ferrari, “Western and Christian civilization”, the famous Jesus crucified on an airplane.
“Fine Arts” once again laughs at the art world as a circus for snobs, where artists display a supposed moral superiority while the public crowds to see and question what is considered art, mediated like never before by social networks. The final image evokes several works of art with striped jackets and leaves the door open to a third season, given the inexhaustible universe it addresses.
Source: Ambito
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