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Prostitution

  • Oil on canvas
    175 x 175 cm
    Year: 2001

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    The nakedness of a young girl and the black clothing of her companion, who is elegantly dressed. Money face to face with necessity, social recognition with rejection, perhaps power with the obligatory submission. The darkness gives them anonymity, between a background of blacks, reds, greys and yellows in which sex and money are exchanged. The darkness allows them that secrecy, in which two people walk hand in hand in a total absence of love.

  • Oil on canvas
    175 x 175 cm
    Year: 2001

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    La desnudez de una joven y el negro ropaje de su acompañante, elegantemente vestido. Enfrentados el dinero a la necesidad, el reconocimiento social con el rechazo, acaso, el poder con la obligada sumisión. La oscuridad les sume en el anonimato, entre un fondo de  negros, rojos, grises y amarillos en el que se intercambia el sexo y el dinero. La oscuridad les permite esa  clandestinidad, en la que dos personas caminan cogidas de la mano con total ausencia de amor. 

  • Oil on canvas
    190 x 130cm
    1995

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  • Oil on canvas
    200 x 200 cm
    1995

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  • Oil on canvas
    175 x 175 cm
    Year: 1998

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    There are no games, or books, or laughter, or idyllic scenes. There is no place for childhood.
     They are children, hostages, slaves of a destiny which forces them to sell themselves time and again. A shop window of children of poverty, of war, of misery or ill-treatment, of vulnerable existences abandoned in the alleyways of Hell. Child prostitution is a subject which alarms and embarrasses a society that is mutually blind to facts that show the monstrousness of which man is capable. Jorge Rando uses canvases to bring us face to face with it.

  • Oil on board
    122 x 122 cm
    Year: 2009

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    On this occasion, the artist shows the woman in an intimate situation. Lying down and pensive. The legs, one of them lifted, and her tilted head display a relaxed but at the same time alert demeanour, and even in this attitude she is holding in her right hand the red bag that she always carries, like her own shadow.

  • Oil on canvas
    165 x 145 cm
    Year: 2008

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    The black face, the colour with no colour. Black with lips stained red, a face with no features that does not prevent finding behind the mask the soul that is hidden by the bodies for sale.
    A figure of voluptuous shapes…. A bag hangs from the arm… maybe the eyes are checking the boundaries of its territory.

  • Oil on canvas
    175 x 175 cm
    Year: 2009

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    The setting for this picture is a prostitute waiting, maybe for a client. One hand under her chin, absorbed in her thoughts. She waits, with her tight dress and her overdone makeup; she always wears red lipstick. We can also guess at a gentleness filled with authority. The artist cares about the women he paints, women whose true identity lies beneath this constructed façade. The red bag is never missing.

  • Oil on canvas
    175 x 175 cm
    Year: 2009

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    A severe position, her body is drawn with a formal simplification of the strokes. The woman looks tense, her closed eyes isolate her, enabling her to keep her face unperturbed by the black shadow that stalks her. In the lower part of the picture, the drawing merges with the background. This is a picture that shows us the constant struggle between the line and the background in the execution of a work of art.

  • Oil on canvas
    146 x 89 cm
    Year: 2009

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    A background in dark tones which runs freely to the bottom of the scene. Her extremely short dress, her face slightly tilted, highlights her fragility in the middle of the vastness, at the mercy of the vicissitudes of this dark background that engulfs her. It is a woman with her red bag.

  • Oil on canvas
    162 x 130 cm
    Year: 2009

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    The word prostitution comes from the Latin Prostituere which means to display for sale. In this picture we find ourselves in front of that public display, in front of that hope of being chosen from among the onlookers that surround her. But the woman is not showing a provocative nor brazen attitude. We are in front of a woman who does not look ahead, the position of her arms that cover her torso could be a self-protective instinct. Jorge Rando paints his prostitutes with a small red handbag, where she keeps her privacy, her things that are not for sale. It is her only possession, a symbol of her work and her sacrifice.


  • Watercolour-charcoal
    21,5 x 13 cm
    Year: 2006-2007

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    To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.

  • Watercolour-charcoal
    21,5 x 13 cm
    Year: 2006-2007

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    To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.

  • Watercolour-charcoal
    21,5 x 13 cm
    Year: 2006-2007

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    To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.

  • Watercolour-charcoal 
    21,5 x 13 cm
    Year: 2006-2007

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    To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.

  • Watercolour-charcoal
    21,5 x 13 cm
    Year: 2006-2007

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    To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.

  • Ink-watercolour
    50 x 40 cm
    Year: 2004

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    To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.

  • Ink-watercolour
    50 x 40 cm
    Year: 2004

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    To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.

  • Ink-watercolour
    50 x 40 cm
    Year: 2004

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    To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.

  • Ink-watercolour
    50 x 40 cm
    Year: 2004

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    To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.

  • Ink-watercolour
    50 x 40 cm
    Year: 2006

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    To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.

  • Ink-watercolour
    50 x 40 cm
    Year: 2004

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    To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.

  • Watercolour
    25,5 x 25,5 cm
    Year: 2006

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    To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.

  • Ink-watercolour 
    32 x 24 cm
    Year: 2008

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    To Jorge Rando the drawing has its own entity. It's never seen as an sketch that will serve for the subsequent realization of a painting. He considers the drawing as a way to express himself freely and spontaneously without ties.
Prostitutes. (Naked, dressed, brunettes, blondes, tall, short, pretty, ugly, rich, poor, forced, voluntary, sad gaze, no gaze). Women.

Prostitution is a journey to back alleyways of red lips, short skirts and high heels. Jorge Rando’s first studio was in one of these shadowy streets. The chatting, the meetings, the coexistence there, led the artist to outline this underworld of sex, body and soul, this hidden existence in the suburbs of conscience. A look at relegated women, always waiting, unchanging, in the back alleyways of a turbulent society that hides its realities.

Prostitution is neither condemnation nor complaint, it is the presentation of this elusive reality, festering in ethics and morality. It is the portrayal of these women, marginalised amid loud voices and whispered requests. A heterogeneous feminine world that finds its space between the edges of a canvas that demands its visibility.
I don’t complain. I never damage dignity. I give these people space and hope in the present stage of their lives, because it is just that, a stage in the lives of these women, of these youngsters, of these children… Life does not begin or end with the slavery of prostitution. Let’s do something about it! Let us not be cowards!
Jorge Rando

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