They don't arrive on time
They don’t arrive on time/No llegan a tiempo
They don’t arrive on time/No llegan a tiempo is a collage that reinterprets engraving 53 from the series of engravings Los Desastres de la Guerra by Francisco de Goya. The work is part of the Goya and Feminism exhibition of the Artists Association Blanco, Negro y Magenta (BNM), in which the artists reinterpret Goya’s Whims and Disasters.
The death of a woman and time, which has not been enough to save her, are the stars of this engraving by Goya. Engraving 53, according to the Royal Academy, They do not arrive on time, shows us this dead woman, held by the arms by two other women, while another one lies on the ground, somewhat further away, also lifeless. Death, woman and time are the essence of this image that takes place in a desolate exterior, defined only by a line and in which an indefinite architecture is intuited.
The interpretation of this engraving is a manual collage, where a woman appears broken, an image torn apart with violence that represents that dead woman. It is a sober work where only red contrasts with black and white, a red mass, an element that replaces the architecture of the original, which accentuates barbarism. She is inside and outside of an almost transparent paper that shows us a top line that echoes the line of the original landscape; and adds three torn papers, three like the other three women that appear in the engraving. The papers seem to move, like the passing of time. The text appears emphatically on a paper that is also torn, accentuating the red that drips like the pain that the image transmits.
Violeta Andreu: They do not arrive on time (collage, 100 x 40 cm, 2022)
(gouache, etching, burin, drypoint on paper, 157 x 207 mm, 1812 – 1814)
Exterior of the Zaragoza Museum and poster of the exhibition.
Goya and feminism. A complex relationship
From October 5 to December 11, 2022.
Zaragoza Museum. Aragon, Spain.
Blanco, Negro y Magenta (BNM) Association, Goya Foundation in Aragon,
Aragonese Women’s Institute, 40th Anniversary of the Aragon Autonomy
Statute 1982-2022 and Government of Aragon.
Exhibition of the Association of White, Black and Magenta Artists
(BNM), chaired by Dora Román, is a project by Concha Mayordomo in
which the artists1 reinterpret Goya’s Caprichos and Disasters.
Related articles:
Román, Dora. «Soniya Amrit, Violeta Andreu, Rebeka Elizegi y Dora Román participan en ‘Goya y Feminismo. Una relación compleja’» . Mujeres Mirando Mujeres, 2 de noviembre de 2022.
The participating artists ares: Almudena Armenta, Amalie Leschamps, Blanca Prendes, Blanca Tejerina, Carmen Imbach, Charo Corrales, Concha Mayordomo, Dolo Fernández, Dora Román, Elena del Moral, Emi Azor, Esperanza Durán, Canal Bedía, Eva Rodríguez, Leticia Reyero, Marga Colás, María Vega, María Jesús Manzanares, Marta Albarrán, Narges Bazargani, Pilar Belmonte, Rebeka Elizegi, Rocío Ahnert, Soniya Amritlal Patel, Teresa Blanco, Violeta Andreu, Virginia D’Angelo, Yolanda Lalonso y Mapi Rivera como artista invitada. ↩︎