First published: September 2025
For over two decades, curator and author Jo Farb Hernández has scoured the hidden corners of Spain, uncovering a wealth of long-ignored art environments
“Spain is a marvel of contrasting landscapes, cultures and gastronomy. Thousands of years of successive migration and colonisation – by, among others, the Celts, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks and Romans – led to a breadth of successful global commerce and military power as it experienced alternating periods of tolerance and warfare. The extant built environments that recall those archaic footprints are so widespread and of such high quality that until recent decades there was little, if any, acknowledgment of Spain’s more idiosyncratic constructions – the art environments of self-taught makers. With insufficient funding for the conservation and preservation of even globally important, ancient masterpieces, the very concept of a plan to honour and safeguard these contemporary, almost uncategorisable creations has had no traction.
the front of Rodríguez’s beach-side house on the southern Almería coast, 2016
This is an article extract; read the full article in Raw Vision 124.
