My OperaMiquel Barceló Exhibition
Monday, June 9, 2008 11:12:19 PM
There´s a very interesting exhibition in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, for those living or traveling to Dublin between the 25th June and the 28th september: "Miquel Barceló: The African Work".
Miquel Barceló is one of my favourite painters. He has a unique, strong and dynamic style. His technique is based in the use of organic materials, like insects, meat, fur, rotten plants, ashes. He describes his work as violent, pungent, rude. He´s always investigating, and this makes his works always different and interesting.
He has traveled constantly, but he definitely wouldn´t be the artist we know today without his "african experience". Africa, and especially Mali, was a revelation for the artist, and everything he experienced there enriched his work, not only the colors, textures, aromas and images of the country, but also its textures (clay, cow dung, etc), which he included in his paintings and ceramics.
Barceló´s workbooks/diaries are very inspiring...sketches of everything he finds, writings about art in general, and about his work. Here are 2 of his paintings:
Miquel Barceló is one of my favourite painters. He has a unique, strong and dynamic style. His technique is based in the use of organic materials, like insects, meat, fur, rotten plants, ashes. He describes his work as violent, pungent, rude. He´s always investigating, and this makes his works always different and interesting.
He has traveled constantly, but he definitely wouldn´t be the artist we know today without his "african experience". Africa, and especially Mali, was a revelation for the artist, and everything he experienced there enriched his work, not only the colors, textures, aromas and images of the country, but also its textures (clay, cow dung, etc), which he included in his paintings and ceramics.
Barceló´s workbooks/diaries are very inspiring...sketches of everything he finds, writings about art in general, and about his work. Here are 2 of his paintings:
