BARCELO FASCINATES ME

I had been to an art gallery to see an artist called Florence Grundeler . She’s French, born in 1968. I certainly liked her description…

At the beginning there was ink. An awareness of ink, an attraction to ink. But it was locked in the silence of memory, an evocation below the paintbrush.Then came stick people, transformation, accidents of the paintbrush, who appeared again and again on the canvasses, until they went beyond… and fell off the edge of the frame. A memory of ink but shyness before the ink.

On her work too silk is sown into the canvas. Fascinating but too much of it and l thing you could could tire of it quickly.



I was only there for about 20 minutes so wandering back via the Picasso Museum, I was expecting to see a stream of visitors - no-one. Lunch time can mean that people do take off time to eat.

As I was off to Majorca to see Miguel Barcelo’s work, I was interested to know why there was this relationship between the Picasso museum and this artist. There have been a few exhibitions that I have seen - recently at the BNF with Laurent and Jerome.

Born in 1957 in Majorca, he is the first contemporary artist invited to present a monographic exhibition at the Hôtel Salé since its reopening in 2014. The exhibition, titled “Sol y sombra,” displays an ensemble of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and works on paper from the 1990s to today. The exhibit centers around the artist’s diverse domains of creation and highlight the affinities of his work with the attitudes, the motifs, and the creative processes of Picasso. As I said, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France has an exhibition focused on the engravings of Barceló. So this has been developed  as a partnership, which  gives the public the opportunity to discover, and in my case rediscover, the rich and protean work of this well-known artist. Every time I see his work I am quite amazed at it’s diversity. I discovered him first of all in Aix on Provence in 2010 and there at once I was bowled over. This must be the 4th or 5th exhibition that I have seen. Laurent and Jerome had sent me very tempting photos from Majorca. I booked at once for a short trip to discover Barcelo in his home surroundings. 

Firstly though, this is what I saw this time around.
























































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We really liked the heads display and the bull fighting work on metal plates.
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