Jean-Michel Alberola - 1965-1966-1967

"1965-1966-1967 is a turning point heralding the explosiveness of politics in the 1970s,” explains the artist. “Those three years still had a sense of freedom, before money began to infiltrate the artistic domains of the music and film industries in the late 1960s. People realised that counter-culture could be sold. That’s when everything changed.” - Jean-Michel Alberola.

Jean-Michel Alberola has spent around two years collecting, annotating, rubbing out and re-writing in charcoal or blue and ochre pastel, a multitude of information about this era. These facts, gathered on sheets of paper or pieces of cardboard of different sizes, form a series of drawings. Hang shoulder to shoulder, they attempt to understand the sense of an era and build bridges with the present.