Opera Gallery Madrid is pleased to present “It's Friday All Week”, the first solo exhibition in Spain by the British artist George Morton-Clark, showcasing his most recent work.   When we first glance at the  artist’s canvases, we are greeted by a familiar imaginary of animated  cartoon characters, he appropriates with spirited resourcefulness and  underscores with marked monumentality and chromatic vividness. He  intervenes on his canvases with assertive brushwork, driven by a gesture  that instils an exhilaratingly intense rhythm.   With his ability to reinterpret  cartoon characters from his childhood, Morton-Clark invites us on an  introspective journey that couples the familiar and the abstract to  create a unique visual dialogue. This focus not only denotes a stylistic  choice, but is in fact the medium to explore our emotional relationship  with these characters. By rendering them in canvas paintings, the  artist divests these icons of their childlike innocence and submerges us  into a new narrative in which nostalgia is inflected with the  complexity of the adult experience.   Morton-Clark forces us to  question the images that shape our imaginary and our relationship with  it. We are indeed constantly surrounded by images, immersed in a reality  that has been filtered through television, the medium that decisively  influenced a collective imaginary with characters such as Mickey Mouse,  Donald Duck or the Pink Panther. By bringing these animated cartoon  characters on his canvases, Morton-Clark manages to crack a smile on the  face of adults who recognise the source and appreciate the novel  quality the image accrues in this context.   Therefore, the artistic  appropriation in “It’s Friday All Week” becomes a powerful instrument to  explore the influence of popular culture in our collective psyche,  activated by iconic cartoon characters with the purpose of conjuring  shared memories. In this way, Morton-Clark manages to kindle an  experience that functions not only in Western settings, but has shown  itself to be universal, as borne out in his recent shows in Singapore  and South Korea.