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Lot Essay
Ideas don't produce
paintings. Viceversa.
And then, these ideas don't help
to make
new ones but not to make them.
(Otherwise it would be like a bouillabaise
with crabs and live fish
writhing in the soup)
The painter, then, builds and destroys
ideas - images, metaphors,
theories, sensations, emotions.
And what remains - that's what we're after
(and yet it is simple, as simple
as love and hunger).
(M. Barcelo, note book, 01-09-1995, In: "Miquel Barceló, 1987-1997", Barcelona 1998, p. 199.)
paintings. Viceversa.
And then, these ideas don't help
to make
new ones but not to make them.
(Otherwise it would be like a bouillabaise
with crabs and live fish
writhing in the soup)
The painter, then, builds and destroys
ideas - images, metaphors,
theories, sensations, emotions.
And what remains - that's what we're after
(and yet it is simple, as simple
as love and hunger).
(M. Barcelo, note book, 01-09-1995, In: "Miquel Barceló, 1987-1997", Barcelona 1998, p. 199.)