Exhibition: "Paper stories"

You are all invited!!

 

Cy Twombly - RIP

Famed American painter Cy Twombly, who first found the limelight with his calligraphic paintings in the late 1950s, has died in Rome aged 83.

The US artist was widely known for abstract works that used oil paint, pencil and crayon to create repetitive lines and scribbles on canvas.

‘It Does Not Illustrate’

In the only written statement Mr. Twombly ever made about his work, a short essay in an Italian art journal in 1957, he tried to make clear that his intentions were not subversive but elementally human. Each line he made, he said, was “the actual experience” of making the line, adding: “It does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization.” Years later, he described this more plainly. “It’s more like I’m having an experience than making a picture,” he said. The process stood in stark contrast to the detached, effete image that often clung to Mr. Twombly. After completing a work, in a kind of ecstatic state, it was as if the painting existed but he himself barely did anymore: “I usually have to go to bed for a couple of days,” he said.

New York Times

New Illustration

A few days in the field, watching the storks, cold and then snow. A warm blanket, a few papers, pencils and glue ... and much happiness at what I do.

Christmas Card 2011

2011 Christmas card, made of paper sculpture.
I wish you a very happy Christmas to all of you!!!

New custom artwork in my studio

New work: Luisa & Peter.
Paper sculpture in a wood box with glass.

New custom artwork from my studio.

This commissioned work is a gift from my wonderful friend Mercedes for her cousins Luisa and Peter, who celebrate their silver jubilee.

Mercedes asked me to include the Romanesque chapel in which they were married and evoked the beautiful garden, where it is located.

Luisa and Peter accompanied by their sons and friendly dogs. I hope you enjoy it!.

A big hug!!

Tati

Calico Melton

I just randomly found a link to the work of Calico Melton. I love the textures and the balance in her work. Link

Germaine Richier

I recently discovered Germaine Richier at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier.  I was instantly intrigued by her work and I thought her antropomorphic style would appeal to my fellow tinderboxers.

www.germaine--richier.com

Wikipedia notes

Further reading [download PDF]

Gasiorowski

GASIOROWSKI at Carré d'Art in Nîmes

We went to this exhibition last week in Nîmes. The format of this retrospective show was non-choronological. This meant that work from Gasiorowski's hyper-realist period was hung beside paint daubed postcards of his later career. The show was really engaging and I felt I had an insight into the artist's personality.

"Throughout his career, Gérard Gasiorowski came out as an outspoken advocate of contradiction, viewed in terms of constructive opposition rather than impossibility. This is a key feature of his practice and of his personality, whereby he moves from hyperrealist figuration to abstraction or fiction, from virtuosity to the daub, while exercising irreverence or homage, gravity and the most biting irony, excess or asceticism."

Slideshow

New collage: Slither

Collage. Fabriano paper, mixed media, 36x26 cm.

Living is to slither by, you repeated,
catching our existence sideways
or see it from afar, high above,
with the perplexity of the beholder.
Those who knew you say
you lived this way, there was nothing
or anyone who might deviate
even one inch of the line
that yougave it your path.
That ambushed path led to
a house lost in the wilderness.
On that stony and eroded
under the blazing light of summer,
drawing a precise shade
the final shock of your loss.
In the sanctuary you set
a dangerous view of the world.
You pleaded with the gods often
not to punished us with misfortune
(Capable in its zeal to destroy us)
without first teaching what is important:
the fragile transparency of life.

Álvaro Valverde

Have a beautiful weekend!

New custom artwork in my studio

This commissioned work is a wedding gift from my sweet friend Silvia for her friends Jimena and Ignacio , the charming couple you see here. She, Jimena, is a designer of gardens and what better place than a lush garden to be together. Hope you like it!.
Tati

All stays in the family

These are works of art that my kids did when they were young.
Art in the boxes are in our blood.
I leave them to enjoy them while I'm going to do mine that I'm a little embarrassed.
Good and creative weekend everyone!

Blue

Colección Texturas

"Oh, this blue
That has come to initiate me into the light
With bells might wonder
Inhabiting it ever was. "

Pancho Cabral

New work: Tati Galiano

I am very happy to meet you and share with you this interesting blog.
I make paper sculpture and collage. If you want to know my work I'm in http://laviajeramaslenta.blogspot.com

The Association of Illustrators.

A must for all Illustrators.

www.theaoi.com