Perro belongs to the series of small-format rotulador drawings in which Costus reduced their subject to its essential gesture: a dog, rendered in marker on paper at 8 x 8 cm, with the directness and confidence of a sign. These miniature works — at once intimate and formally resolved — represent Costus thinking through the visual question of how much information an image needs to carry full pictorial authority.
Costus — Juan Carrero Galofré and Enrique Naya Igueravide — were among the defining artists of La Movida Madrileña, the social and cultural movement that transformed Spanish life after the Franco dictatorship. Working in Madrid from the late 1970s until Carrero Galofré’s death from AIDS in 1989, they produced a body of work that combined pop aesthetics, Mediterranean chromatic intensity, gay male imagery, and an irrepressible visual energy.
This work is sold and forms part of a private collection. It is presented here as part of the Imago Dei Gallery archive of significant works by Costus.
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