Cheers for a Pop Up Life reúne en Marbella a Julio Anaya, Daniel Núñez, Fran Baena, Imon Boy y Ramón Muñoz: cinco artistas de la órbita de la Galería

Cheers for a Pop Up Life brings together in Marbella Julio Anaya, Daniel Núñez, Fran Baena, Imon Boy, and Ramón Muñoz: five artists from the orbit of YUSTO / GINER Gallery who once again share space in a group show. What unites them is something more specific than painting itself: all five work with images that already exist, a masterpiece, a meme, a domestic object, an urban scene, an autobiographical fragment… and they ask what happens when you paint them again, when you slow them down, when you subject them to another gaze.

Julio Anaya reproduces icons from art history on found cardboard, creating tension between aura and waste. Daniel Núñez transforms banal objects from his immediate surroundings into an almost mystical iconography, subtle and comforting. Fran Baena brings memes and poor images onto canvas with irony and political urgency, searching for what lies beneath the apparent banality of what we consume online. Imon Boy, whose identity remains deliberately anonymous, turns painting into a self-referential diary, an archive of everything that has shaped him: graffiti, video games, cinema, music. Ramón Muñoz translates everyday situations into a personal pictorial language marked by doubt and duality of identity, with scenes that subtly unsettle.

What they share is not a style, but a distrust of the finished image. The exhibition functions as an open space in which each work maintains its autonomy, while the whole offers a map of generational concerns: how do we paint today, when images proliferate, are consumed, and disapp