Curro Gonzalez
dal 30/11/2006 al 15/1/2007
Segnalato da
30/11/2006
Curro Gonzalez
Galeria Tomas March, Valencia
The man who dreamt he was falling out of bed. The exhibition is approached as a group narratively coalesced by the story on view in an animation made with plasticine, inspired by the "The Session with the Sack" one of the poems in Life in the Folds by Henri Michaux. Moreover 10 paintings and 2 sculptures about a delirious vision of the world.
The man who dreamt he was falling out of bed
Galeri'a Toma's March is proud to present recent work by the artist from Seville Curro Gonza'lez, following his two latest individual shows “El Enjambre" at Espacio Uno in MNCARS, Madrid, and “Desde Babel" at Sala San Fernando in Seville. This new series is titled “El hombre que sono' que se cai'a de la cama" or The man who dreamt he was falling out of bed.
On the other hand, I no longer kill. Everything is at rest.
Another period of my life has drawn to a close.
Now I am going to paint, the colours are beautiful
when they come out of the tube, and sometimes
even for a while afterwards. Like blood.
This is how Henri Michaux concluded “Freedom of Action", the first section of poems in his book “Life in the Folds". It’s the artist’s intention for the current show to be understood in a tone running contradictory to the one that cuts through those lines. An undertone of freedom in which the free flow of rage happens like in a dream, so that, in a natural way, the bitter and intolerably absurd feelings which life confronts us with, on so many occasions, are sublimated. These works involve a return to the feelings of indifference and rage that comprised a large part of the adolescence of the artist; at that time, he confesses, he was not able to channel these feelings and make something constructive out of them and even to this day it is still difficult, perhaps that is why he feels the need to try again. To ensure that the execution of these works makes that transitivity effective, over and above any therapeutic drive, one would have to attribute it to the use of humour as the driving engine and channel for such feelings; it is only thanks to them that these works exist and that the catharsis latent in them is produced.
The exhibition is approached as a group narratively coalesced by the story on view in an animation made with plasticine, inspired by the “The Session with the Sack" one of the poems in the above-cited book by Michaux. Alongside this are ten paintings and two sculptures which contain different sections that introduce us to various aspects related with the delirious vision of the world that we construct in our dreams. These works take on an absurd role to address the everyday, with a “clarity" of mind sufficient to survive it, and they wish to impregnate the beholder with the defined and clear-cut feeling of one who also dreams the impossible, utopia. At the end of the day, if we could make our dreams real, dreaming wouldn’t make any sense. Curro Gonzalez
Galeria Tomas March
Aparisi y Guijarro, 7 - Valencia