Blood into Gold / Les Festes. Rogelio López Cuenca

Rogelio López Cuenca, born in Málaga in 1959, is an artist who has worked since the 1980s at the intersection of poetry, visual arts, and mass media. By shifting writing beyond the page, he has developed his own visual poetry, situated within the tradition of institutional critique and pop derivatives, through various media such as painting, installation, urban intervention, and publishing. His early work was developed within the Agustín Parejo School collective, including ventures into the realm of music (Peña Wagneriana, UHP) and addressing topics such as urban space and language. From 1992 onwards, his work took a turn, producing critical interventions into the contemporary system, reflecting recurring issues in his practice, such as migration policies, historical memory, or new forms of urban speculation—symptoms of emerging cognitive capitalism.