12 August 2026

Belmonte hosts “Castilla: Landscapes, Villages and People through the eyes of the Generation of '98”, an exhibition by David Moreno

Organised by the Asociación Cultural Infante Don Juan Manuel with the support of Belmonte Town Council and curated by Antonio Barriga, the show runs from 19 to 25 August at the Casa de la Música.

Belmonte (Cuenca), 12 August 2026. — From 19 to 25 August the Casa de la Música in Belmonte hosts “Castilla: Landscapes, Villages and People through the eyes of the Generation of '98”, an exhibition devoted to the work of artist David Moreno that proposes a contemporary look at Castilla through its landscapes, villages, architecture, materials and everyday objects.

The exhibition opens on Wednesday 19 August at 20:30 and is organised by the Asociación Cultural Infante Don Juan Manuel, with the support of Belmonte Town Council and curated by Antonio Barriga.

The show gathers a selection of David Moreno's production to date and traces a path through a body of work that sits in a hybrid territory between painting, sculpture and architecture. His pieces incorporate wood, cloth, objects and other materials from the rural environment, transformed through processes of assemblage and composition.

In that sense Moreno's work can also be read through the notion of “expanded painting”: a painting that overflows the traditional plane to take in volume, matter, object and space.

A visual memory of Castilla. One of the exhibition's conceptual axes is the construction of a visual memory of Castilla — a memory not limited to grand landscapes, but found also in the façades, doors, windows, walls, structures and objects of everyday village life.

The exhibition also establishes a dialogue with the gaze of the writers of the Generation of '98, especially their way of observing Castilla as territory, landscape and human reality. Without attempting to reconstruct that vision, David Moreno's works start from a similar sensibility and carry it into the language of contemporary art.

Architecture also plays a fundamental role. Moreno's training as an architect shows in his attention to structures, surfaces, proportions and the relationships between the elements that make up each piece.

The creative process as part of the work. One particularity of the exhibition is that the works bear no titles and are not accompanied by explanatory labels — a decision bound to the importance David Moreno gives to the creative process and to freedom of interpretation.

His work develops through observation, experimentation and the transformation of materials, in a slow, introspective process in which pieces may remain deliberately open.

From a curatorial point of view the exhibition proposes neither a chronological route nor a closed narrative. Painting, sculpture, architecture, matter and memory converse in a space conceived so that each visitor builds their own relationships with the works.

The show thus offers a contemporary look at Castilla, far from nostalgia and centred on the artistic transformation of materials, objects and spaces belonging to a concrete reality.

In short, “Castilla: Landscapes, Villages and People through the eyes of the Generation of '98” is an invitation to look at, remember and interpret a territory from new perspectives.