Juan Araujo releases new catalogue: 'Clouds and Shadows on Mars / Over Time'
Juan Araujo's two-sided volume Clouds and Shadows on Mars / Over Time, published by CURA, offers an immersive journey into the artist's practice, serving both as a record of his exhibition at Palazzo Massimo and as a monograph on his most significant works of recent years.
The catalogue is a reflection on Araujo's ongoing dialogue with art history, architecture, and cultural memory - an exploration of how images endure, transform, and accumulate meaning over time. Through critical essays by Inês Grosso, Giulio Figarolo di Gropello, Luis Pérez-Oramas and Stéphane Verger, alongside an in-depth conversation between Araujo and Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, the book delves into the artist's meticulous process of appropriation and reinterpretation. Richly illustrated, it captures his ability to bridge past and present, making visible the layers of time embedded in art and architecture.
The structure of the book itself mirrors Araujo's philosophy: a play of opposites, where the material and the immaterial, the ephemeral and the eternal, continuously intersect. Blending critical discourse with striking visual documentation, this volume is both a tribute to a singular exhibition and a testament to Araujo's enduring exploration of memory, perception, and the shifting nature of visual heritage.
