Shown at La Madraza. Centro de Cultura Contemporánea.
Supported by las Ayudas a la Producción del Vicerrectorado de Extensión Universitaria y Patrimonio ALUMNI UGR 2022.
Texts by Javier Sánchez & Javier Iáñez

This project originates from the intersection between the figure of the poet and the outlaw. Through this potentiality, notions such as failure and the pursuit of redemption are explored plastically. The Dalton Brothers, from Lucky Luke, the comic by Morris and Goscinny, serve as a leitmotif, embodying the archetype of evil.
Weaving a tapestry of clumsy and disoriented characters riddled with overthinking, the works depict cowboys incapable of reaching consensus or finding a truth to anchor themselves. Cañadas repeatedly paints these poet-gunslingers, enmeshed in an incessant verbosity of meta-artistic reflections. Emphasizing repetition as variation in contemporary art and culture, each iteration unveils unique meanings. These rough, ostensibly illiterate, and criminal figures engage with poetic and plastic concerns.
Through a pictorial language that blends irony with skepticism toward pictorial tradition, Cañadas applies color reactively: establishing a preliminary image on which to operate allows him to paint without adhering to a predetermined plan.
In this way, Variaciones Dalton interrogates the boundaries of the pictorial medium and the tension between the need for rationalization and contemporary emptiness, positioning itself at the threshold between comedy, poetry, and contemporary cynicism.


















