For years, Correos has issued a philatelic series dedicated to graphic humor, paying homage to those artists with a sharp pen and free humor.
This year, Andrés Rábago, “El Roto”, is the star of the new broadcast.
The stamp shows a drawing of one of the Correos emblems, the yellow mailbox, the organization's indisputable symbol. This one has as its upper part the hat of an amanita-type mushroom.
The drawing technique is gouache, ink, watercolor and marker on 31 x 34 cm cardboard.
“El Roto” is a painter and draftsman. During the seventies and eighties, under the pseudonym OPS, he collaborated in numerous media such as Hermano Lobo, La Codorniz, Triunfo or Madriz.
With the arrival of democracy, OPS was silenced and a new pseudonym appeared, "El Roto", whose social satire tries every day to break the condition of the individual-mass and alert the conscience of an anesthetic reality.
The drawings of "El Roto" have been published in newspapers such as Diario16 or El Independiente and, for years, in El País.
Parallel to drawing and signed by A. Rábago, his pictorial work also played a very important role in his career.
His paintings have been the subject of numerous exhibitions, both in galleries and institutions.
In 2012, for his work as a whole, he won the National Illustration Prize, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
One of his last exhibitions took place in the year 2019 at the Prado National Museum and was entitled You can't look, where a collection of drawings was exhibited, made for this occasion, which coincided with an exhibition by Francisco de Goya, and it is precisely from one of his works that Rábago takes the title of the exhibition. Both artists share the same intention in their works: to make us think, question ourselves and see the dark and real side of existence.
