By Naomi Ugly
Ductile unharmed islands rise to asthma smile the smile unharmed.
José Lezama Lima
Juan Jose Gil, Paraislas, 1984. Mixed on canvas, 200 x 150 cm
What is an island unharmed?, perhaps, An island? Has not been damaged?, An island? Has remained intact?…
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Fall days
lend the poem,
betray this game
Fatal writing.
While the white night
if by al silencio.
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The rhythm of the rain
is a search: wall
where emerges white
the island unharmed, el verso.
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Occupying words
Your site in memory.
Vocation of the mild.
Matter of oblivion.
“The island unharmed”, in White City Angel Campos
An island that maintains its autonomy and closes around him, the ability to represent the work of art. An island unharmed, not the one that has been left out of change or transformation, but the one who clings to an identity that exists amid the maelstrom of dynamism, not constant and juicy sentence review that involves re-read it again and again, say, almost, infinitum. Exactly, this infinite reinterpretations, Revision, re-representations, which achieves an exposure that the island has as title, and more in this same territory, always involves a safe bet and a pleasant journey through the (of) known.
Isidro Hérnandez, degree in Hispanic Studies, curator and curator of the Collection TEA, Paul draws Dermée, in the first issue of the journal Nord-Sud creationist, as the inspiration that led to the realization of this exhibition-An Island Ilesa. Island Cruises TEA-collection, from a reading of the poet, specifically, on the idea of "creating a work that lives beside himself, of his own life, and is located in a special heaven, an island on the horizon » (1). In this sense, on a text by Federico Castro Morales, "The 'Island-Molineta'. The reception of Creationism in the Canaries "also noted this same idea, but this time with respect to Espinosa and Lanzarote perceived as a land of inspiration for creativity (2). If we expand this phrase Dermée get a broader data: "The purpose of the poet is to create a work that lives its own life, away from it: it is located in a special heaven, like an island in the distance beyond the horizon " (3). Namely, Castro that although Morales, if pointed to the work of the poet as an island on the horizon, Hernandez, concentrates, independently, in the work of art as an island on the horizon.
So, in that distance pointing Dermée, There is also an intention not only of autonomy of the work of art, but unharmed conception of what would be given, as linking to an island, that far on the horizon, coexists with the isolation and the possibility, with the lack of influence and the presence of interpretations. The artwork thus, come to settle in a purity, a representation specificity, a dynamic plural which is not limited in the island territory, and it does not hurt that lives in constant ambivalence.
Pipo Hernández, Piety, 2001. Mixed media on canvas, 295 x 295 cm
Also exists in these conceptions, mysticism, sacralization and veneration of the island as influence and motivation in the work of art. You precisely this aspect symbolic and idealized, also coded, which encourages one hand, conception adored by artists, and other, the possibility that sustains the creativity of the artwork, based on the interpretation of the landscape island. This reading of the island unharmed, reading is recorded over time through the work of art, but in a metaphorical sense, is recorded in an instant intuitive, intimate and personal. The survival of the island, is the survival of the artwork, reading and rendering artist that protects the exotic view of the distance in the linearity of poetry mar.Desde, to painting, sculpture, photography, cinema… Is the island, an expressive means in itself, which gives the representation, different dyes that enrich insular vision but also, encourage imagination and fantasy of a work of art, on the one hand, runs the veracity of landscapes, traditions and identity and that simultaneously, I collected the island, which is that of the artist who interprets and displays a subjective and internalized. It is the island-I, phonetic game (a)island(do) I, that reinterprets, freedom in the work, under the infinitude of his subjectivity and symbolic boundaries of the land.
This group exhibition, interpretation reflects the artist's own insular, foreign vision of the artist who is seduced as island by colors, textures and shapes, and the prevailing tradition canary art. From this sample, I selected a particular vision of some authors who introduced the generality of the argument exhibition. In this sense, Pipo Hernández (Gran Canaria, 1966), is an indisputable, through his work Piedad. Made 2001, his painting is a reflection of the catastrophe set by a veil absolutely serene, delicate, Da Vinci, that arises from the contrast between nature and progress. A silent destruction that attacks the island protected. An island that Gil JuanJosé(Gran Canaria, 1947) becomes Paraislas. This work of 1984, is in line abstract landscape, the artist canary, applies when the house is, Island or Sea. The relief of the island in the verticality of its territories represents the interplay between light and shadow, the appearance and disappearance, andthe history legends. Unaverticalidad, representing the impregnable island in distance vision and spirit mythical.
The island portrayed around the ruin, around the volcano, about the landscape and the sea, and again connects, with great literary poetry which gave the territorioinsular elvalor of protagonist, antagonist but also. This idea Paraislas, is a linkage to the isolation. Closed field representation, seems, decíaPedro GarcíaCabrera as "an outbreak of sea encandenado" (4). A chain that Amelia Pisaca (Tenerife, 1966) collected, in 1998, in the fantasy world, Vernian of Ladon exotic. Guardian of the islands. Atlas passing tres Chios, Egle, Eritia y Aretusa, the Hesperides, living in a serene climate, benign and gentle nature offered where golden apples on their trees. A beautiful garden beauty, who cultivated the Hesperides and which was guarded by Ladon, hundred-headed dragon spewing fire by. The interpretation of Pisaca, consists of multiple color in a format that hosts large recreation not only Greek monster, but the strength of nature, between mountain and sea, the earth andthe weightless. Unaplanimetría visions and details that make up a water effect, deep rooted unscathed island Ladon, under the seal surreal.
Amelia Pisaca, Ladon. Guardian of the islands, 1998. Mixed media on canvas, 650 x 195 cm
Mancha and color, blow and sun, Jiri Georg Dokoupil (Czech Republic, 1954) portrays the island in O.K Baby in 2001. This large format horizontal canvas represents the biological and organic view of nature insular. Drops, random spots and forms are recreated in the style Dokoupil evolutionary. Like a boiling earth arise, Dokoupil free visual, and restore vision purest insular.
Respectively, detalle the Jiri Georg Dokoupil , O.K Baby, 2001, Acrylic on canvas, 94 x398 cm. Except, Tenerife, 2000. Oil on canvas, 81 x166 cm.
After soap mitochondria Dokoupil, Salvo-Salvatore Mangione- (Sicily, 1947) landscape takes more naive and enters the 2000 with Tenerife. A landscape in the clouds Teideaparece queel, Mountain, nature and domestic architecture. A landscape of the island, cancellous, sweet and naive that represents in itself an evidence of tranquility, remoteness and intimacy of the exotic and traditional. ComoJose LuisPérez Navarro (Tenerife, 1961) with cactus. Egos absolute nature, canaries emblems of culture and the traditional landscape, they are for the artist a landscape in itself. The joy and chromaticism of these works, contrasts with the harshness of the landscape of darkness and rebellion road and Isla Angel Padron (Tenerife, 1969) where night and the topography of the curves of the asphalt, cross the metaphysical depth not only pictorial. Curves and paths left by the look at the reflection of the same territory, Island cyclic always, that runs itself, again and again.
Volcanoes, mountains, architectures, agencies Canary pictorial and myths, share social scene and simplified interpretation, playful and child of Donald Baechler (Connecticut, 1956) Sundae with Red, of 1999. An ice cream looms between weightless space, unreal and spontaneous, which arises from the interpretation Desk. A pop vision on Tenerife, haciaCarmen slipping Cologan(Tenerife, 1959) landscape and metaphysics, in an absolute reference to Chirico, solid weight in representation dela. Taly as saying, Henry Brown Ales: "Apart from the cyclical nature of cosmic evolution, the tree allows communication between the three levels of the cosmos: the subway, through their roots; the surface of the earth, through the stem and first branches; the sky, through its top and its upper branches. The spaces where the artist places the dragon are indoors, stays linear, geometric architecture which communicate with each other, through whose openings are powerfully illuminates, white or yellowish ". A beautiful work, simplified, summarized in chromaticity and linearity.
Since the force and terror pleasant Depedro Gonzalez, to detail and thorough July colossal White. Between Nature, Juan Pedro Ayala, the works of Raul Artiles, always the concern arranged Encarneviva, hastaMiguel Fernándezy its expression aquatic, desdeJaime Bravo, Sema until Castro baroque and symbolic dyes Domingo Vega prerafalelistas. Alongside the aforementioned authors let herself LuisMedina work table, Gabriel Roca and photographs of Naia del Castillo and Carmela Garcia. And the embroidery, her poetic collaboration with Arthur Maccanti, Ivan Cabrera and Diego Giuliano, has enabled a multidisciplinary reflection is also present through the sculptural works of John Gopar and Jose Herrera, and the video work of creation “Dock”, canary filmmaker José Cabrera. An exhibition, that broad, solid, and supported by the always safe bet as insular and interpretation, Instant runs the island. An island is An intimate space, as sculpture let herself Herrera, open and closed, bright and dark.
Angel Padron, Road and Isla, 1999. Oil on canvas board, 81x100cm
Notes:
(1)Isidro Hernandez, "The island unharmed. Island Cruises inthe TEA Collection ", TEA. Tenerife Arts Space.
http://www.teatenerife.es / expo / the-island-island unharmed-voyages-in-the-collection-tea. Consultation on 2 August 2013.
(2)Fernando CastroMorales, "The 'Island Molineta'. The reception of Creationism in the Canaries ", Vegueta 10 (2008): 81
(3) Raúl Gustavo Aguirre, The twentieth-century poetic (Argentina: Cultural Argentina, 1983) 87
(4) Pablo María Jesús Gimeno,Peter GarcíaCabrera. Aires of freedom (Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Idea, 2006), 29.
More information:
The island unharmed. Lagenda. Tenerife Leisure Guide
Jose Herrera, An intimate space, 2008. Bronze, 225 x 210 x 142 cm
