190mx6m the monumental stained glass exposed in one of the windows of contemporary headquarters of National Library of France (BNF). EFE
Paris, March 21 (EFE) .- The National Library of France (BNF) and the Picasso Museum in Paris today opened a double exhibition with Miquel Barcelo monumental creations unpublished, including a glazed worked with clay, a new Wall gigantic heads and “Matchbox”, recently cast in the Basque Country.
on the windows of the west wing of contemporary headquarters of the National Library together with its reading rooms and exhibition which showcases a hundred of his works, the Mallorcan artist created a fresco of 190 meters long by 6 meters high
octopuses, jellyfish, fish, crustaceans and marine animals.; snakes, crocodiles, buffaloes, elephants and other terrestrial mammals; scenes inspired rock, skeletons, fantastic, human, plant and abstract figures, invade the infinite cristalera in transformation, following the daylight.
“It is clay on glass, and the thing is that the sun through the glass projects images on the floor and people (..), what I like is how clay becomes painting “and moving light Barceló said at the opening ceremony.
in the BNF, the core is made for a hundred pieces, of which sixty prints, etchings, lithographs and engravings, along with paintings, sculptures, ceramics, gouaches, drawings and notebooks Barceló, for whom both exhibitions are complementary, as noted artist and agreed on Efe its commissaries.
it was he who proposed creating a colossal image of the window decorating their shop in Vilafranca (Balearic Islands), with scratched clay, similar to that now proposed in Paris, he highlighted Cécile Pocheau Lesteven, curator BNF.
it is an ephemeral work, carried out in just over 15 days and on August 28, when the show ends, also cease to exist, said.
the set is a tribute to Majorcan philosopher Ramon Llull and is part of the commemorative events driven on the 700th anniversary of his death in 1316, by the Ramon Llull Institute.
in the Picasso Museum, the route passes through the garden with the monumental “Matches” never exposed before and concludes in “The three Llull” sculpture 2010 with three faces that can represent the artist, and other illustrious masters like Titian and Michelangelo, explains Andrew Violette, one of its two curators.
The common thread is here the artist’s studio, the Barceló, of course, reflected in some of his famous oil paintings of the nineties or a recreation of his workshop plasters, occupying a room surrounded by photographs of Picasso’s studio, work his companion Dora Maar, Brassaï and other photographers.
the exhibition, the first of a contemporary artist after the reopening of the museum rehabilitation after a year and a half, was programmed by its former president, Anne Baldassari, retaken by his successor, Laurent Le Bon, and delayed one year to coincide with that of the BNF.
in addition to its catalog and its title, “Miquel Barceló. Sun “, share works about bullfighting here several oil paintings and a recent model of engraving, as well as an important reference to Snowflake, historical albino gorilla at Barcelona Zoo that opens the exhibition at the Picasso Museum.
its rooms show also a valuable set of recent ceramics, particularly those made with soot, never exhibited before, for Barcelo had not yet found the technique that allowed him to fix his negritude, he explained Andrew.
direct dialogue with the window of the BNF, inside the museum, monumentality is offered a job done “in situ”, “the Wall Cabezas”, occupying a room alone, and whose billets and blue pieces, green, white and blacks were created for the occasion.
reflect the passion of Barceló by prehistoric and Aztec cultures such as art, and its famous funeral shelves of skulls, tzompantli, made with dozens of skulls of enemies killed to appease the god sun and war, Huitzilopochtli.
on the windows of the west wing of contemporary headquarters of the National Library together with its reading rooms and exhibition which showcases a hundred of his works, the Mallorcan artist created a fresco of 190 meters long by 6 meters high
octopuses, jellyfish, fish, crustaceans and marine animals.; snakes, crocodiles, buffaloes, elephants and other terrestrial mammals; scenes inspired rock, skeletons, fantastic, human, plant and abstract figures, invade the infinite cristalera in transformation, following the daylight.
“It is clay on glass, and the thing is that the sun through the glass projects images on the floor and people (..), what I like is how clay becomes painting “and moving light Barceló said at the opening ceremony.
in the BNF, the core is made for a hundred pieces, of which sixty prints, etchings, lithographs and engravings, along with paintings, sculptures, ceramics, gouaches, drawings and notebooks Barceló, for whom both exhibitions are complementary, as noted artist and agreed on Efe its commissaries.
it was he who proposed creating a colossal image of the window decorating their shop in Vilafranca (Balearic Islands), with scratched clay, similar to that now proposed in Paris, he highlighted Cécile Pocheau Lesteven, curator BNF.
it is an ephemeral work, carried out in just over 15 days and on August 28, when the show ends, also cease to exist, said.
the set is a tribute to Majorcan philosopher Ramon Llull and is part of the commemorative events driven on the 700th anniversary of his death in 1316, by the Ramon Llull Institute.
in the Picasso Museum, the route passes through the garden with the monumental “Matches” never exposed before and concludes in “The three Llull” sculpture 2010 with three faces that can represent the artist, and other illustrious masters like Titian and Michelangelo, explains Andrew Violette, one of its two curators.
The common thread is here the artist’s studio, the Barceló, of course, reflected in some of his famous oil paintings of the nineties or a recreation of his workshop plasters, occupying a room surrounded by photographs of Picasso’s studio, work his companion Dora Maar, Brassaï and other photographers.
the exhibition, the first of a contemporary artist after the reopening of the museum rehabilitation after a year and a half, was programmed by its former president, Anne Baldassari, retaken by his successor, Laurent Le Bon, and delayed one year to coincide with that of the BNF.
in addition to its catalog and its title, “Miquel Barceló. Sun “, share works about bullfighting here several oil paintings and a recent model of engraving, as well as an important reference to Snowflake, historical albino gorilla at Barcelona Zoo that opens the exhibition at the Picasso Museum.
its rooms show also a valuable set of recent ceramics, particularly those made with soot, never exhibited before, for Barcelo had not yet found the technique that allowed him to fix his negritude, he explained Andrew.
direct dialogue with the window of the BNF, inside the museum, monumentality is offered a job done “in situ”, “the Wall Cabezas”, occupying a room alone, and whose billets and blue pieces, green, white and blacks were created for the occasion.
reflect the passion of Barceló by prehistoric and Aztec cultures such as art, and its famous funeral shelves of skulls, tzompantli, made with dozens of skulls of enemies killed to appease the god sun and war, Huitzilopochtli.
By Maria Luisa Gaspar
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