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Lot Essay
To be included in the forthcoming Manolo Millares Catalogue Raisonné beign prepared by Elvireta Escobio de Millares, Madrid.
'Art today performs a social function because it can call attention to pustules...The artist must be able to make it hurt agonizingly. He is "only man, the world, a recorder of things in the raw, a need to express. He follows very closely the despair of our time, watches over it and sews up its wounds; he records it in the scream from the deepest hole and is murdered by its leprosy...There must be no explanations or understandings : art cannot be the comfortable seat of the intelligible (art is a phenomenon of contamination, not of comprehension), but the fearful bed of thorns on which we all lie to throw a temporal greeting to lurking death'.(Manolo Millares in Papeles de Son Armadans, no. XXXVII, Madrid-Palma, April 1959.)
'Art today performs a social function because it can call attention to pustules...The artist must be able to make it hurt agonizingly. He is "only man, the world, a recorder of things in the raw, a need to express. He follows very closely the despair of our time, watches over it and sews up its wounds; he records it in the scream from the deepest hole and is murdered by its leprosy...There must be no explanations or understandings : art cannot be the comfortable seat of the intelligible (art is a phenomenon of contamination, not of comprehension), but the fearful bed of thorns on which we all lie to throw a temporal greeting to lurking death'.(Manolo Millares in Papeles de Son Armadans, no. XXXVII, Madrid-Palma, April 1959.)