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From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, Federico Aguilar Alcuaz started one of his famous series Tres Marias. Often a triad of beautiful, long-gowned women, Aguilar Alcuaz’s Tres Marias are the very image of feminine domestic bliss as they lounge in their private quarters where they can finally shed the heavy societal gaze and just be themselves. Oftentimes they are alone but sometimes, a lone child could be seen relaxing with them or a man watching from the outside.

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This 1985 work echoes Aguilar Alcuaz’s Tres Marias with five women lounging on a sofa. In comparison to other Tres Marias work, this one is a bit more compressed together as they sit with their knees and elbows knocking into each other. Another point of difference too is the state of the clothes – while the usual Spanish gowns are still used, several women wore Japanese kimonos and Chinese cheongsams, effectively opening Aguilar Alcuaz’s works internationally. At their feet kneels another woman dressed in a simpler cheongsam as she cleans the floor.

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Aguilar Alcuaz’s Tres Marias often alludes to the women’s implicit trust for each other through their relaxed body posture. Here, he made that physical through their proximity – though they sit closed off and wary (perhaps due to an outsider’s presence), their bond is undeniable.

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“I am only doing what I believe in,” Aguilar Alcuaz was quoted in 1977. “I am sure that nobody would say that I am living in a romantic age. I am a romantic man living in a modern age.” Indeed, as seen in this work (and his Tres Marias series), he is at his most romantic when he depicts women as he manages to blend in their demure outward nature and vibrant inner life. (Hannah Valiente)

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