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9/7/2009

Jose' Maria Guijarro

La Alhondiga, Villanueva de los Infantes (Ciudad Real)

In the context of the Literary Conferences held in Villanueva de los Infantes, José María Guijarro presents a collection of works that have in common their closeness with language, with literature, with the poetry by Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Miguel Hernández, Quevedo, and with Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.

The first three words of the Phenomenology have been solidified, in the hands of Guijarro, into three wooden blocks maintaining a relationship to each other proportionate to the size of the words according to the number of letters they have.
Out of Hölderlin’s Archipelago, only the rhythm of long and short syllables is saved; the rest, the solemnity of this great Romantic elegy, has disappeared into the esparto grass net woven by Guijarro.

This has also been the case with the beautiful hendecasyllables “they will be ashes, but they will have meaning; dust they will be, but loving dust.” All that is left from these lines of verse from Quevedo in the wood or plate objects presented by Guijarro is just the amount of syllables and the relationship between tonic and atonic syllables.

In all the works contained in this exhibition, the presence of matter, of things, prevails – and always structured in a simple, elemental, almost minimalist way, and nothing more. Quevedo’s, Hölderlin’s, Miguel Hernández’s poetry have been left behind in the nearness in which they started. The relationship with literature that these works maintain once finished, is an anecdotic, accidental, almost absent relationship. These material bodies that we are faced with present us an empty structure, and if it wasn’t for their title, we would know nothing about their origin.
Emptiness and silence we can even see in the diverse copies of Paul Celan’s books of poems presented by Guijarro. Paradoxically, this is an emptiness brought about by the accumulation of poems, by the reiteration of the writing in one and the same paper until its whiteness is filled with shades.

Opening July 10th. 9 pm

La Alhondiga
C/ General Perez Ballesteros, 1 - Villanueva de los Infantes (Ciudad Real) Spagna

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