Until January 10, visitors will be able to see 125 images and pieces, including sketches, drawings made during childhood, schoolwork and projects from his time as an illustration student, inked pages, fanzines, designs, commissions, advertising work and his first professional publications. The exhibition also features covers of his comics and materials that reveal, still in an early form, some of the traits that would eventually become part of his creative universe.
"Drawing has always been a way to tell a story. In other words, there are no illustrations that exist for their own sake; there is no interest in drawing or painting simply for the sake of it, no. Illustrations are always part of a narrative. In that sense, I think it has always been the same from beginning to end," the artist explained.
"Paco's mother deserves our thanks for keeping all this in a drawer for so many years, because you can find genuine treasures. Your mother is a saint, really," comic book designer and publisher MacDiego said at the exhibition's presentation on Tuesday afternoon.
The exhibition also includes a Goya, editions of "Wrinkles" in around thirty languages, script excerpts and other materials that make it possible to reconstruct Paco Roca's creative and professional process. Rather than focusing solely on the final result, the exhibition highlights the tests, attempts, influences, doubts and solutions that accompanied the artist's development.
"The Stone Age of Paco Roca... and a Little Something Else" thus proposes viewing the author's career from a different perspective: not through his awards or the recognition he would later achieve, but through his beginnings and the process by which a passion for drawing eventually became a profession.
