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Portraits that convey transience

"Borrowed Time" by Abdul Vas to be held at Ecientoveinte in Madrid, Spain from November 28, 2024 to February 8, 2025. The exhibition is curated by Alexis Callado.

For Abdul Vas, the overwhelming power of AC/DC’s music has displaced linear and routine time. The Australian band's "riffs" have imbued Vas' artistic work with a daring, overwhelming and timeless sensibility.

Emily Dickinson, 2024
oil on belgian linen, 13.78 x 10.63 in / 35 x 27 cm

Mark Twain, 2024
oil on belgian linen, 9 x 6.6 in / 23 x 17 cm

Juan Rulfo, 2024
oil on belgian linen, 9 x 6.6 in / 23 x 17 cm

Thanks to this lucidity, Abdul Vas has decided to portray a set of writers (Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner) who managed, in his view, to create in a space that has not been touched by time or the adversities of fleeting fashions; writers who inhabit a dimension where delicacy and loyalty to aesthetics intertwine with the greatness of music from a time lent by eternity.

Jorge Luis Borges, 2020
oil on belgian linen, 13.7 x 10.6 in / 35 x 27 cm

James Joyce, 2020
oil on belgian linen, 13.7 x 10.6 in / 35 x 27 cm

T. S. Eliot, 2020
oil on belgian linen, 13.7 x 10.6 in / 35 x 27 cm

William Faulkner, 2020
oil on belgian linen, 13.7 x 10.6 in / 35 x 27 cm

His exhibition also includes portraits of NFL players (Tom Brady, Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice) who (re)present that fragile balance between transience and greatness; lives accelerated to the fullest by an insatiable mechanism revealing to us that time is a gift that must be returned. The more one ascends to the heights of athletic success and achievement, something escapes him. They are specters that fade along with their excellence, though they survive in the memories of fans.

Walter Payton, No.34, Chicago Bears
(RB)running back, 2024
oil on belgian linen, 13.7 x 10.6 in / 35 x 27 cm

Barry Sanders No.20, Detroit Lions
(RB)running back, 2023
oil on belgian linen, 13.7 x 10.6 in / 35 x 27 cm

Jerry Rice, No.80, San Francisco 49ers
(WR)wide receiver, 2024
oil on belgian linen, 13.7 x 10.6 in / 35 x 27 cm

Jim Brown, No.32, Cleveland Browns
(FB) fullback, 2024
oil on belgian linen, 10.6 x 8.6 / 27 x 22 cm

Abdul Vas unifies these three visual themes – writers, NFL players and members of the rock band AC/DC - with a refined pictorial finesse that bolsters the central idea conveyed by the exhibition. Vas points to the uncertainty born of the fact that the temporal gives us the illusion of a beginning, and only in this way do the mysteries of creativity and existence converge in us.