Review: Amador GarcÃa
«I search, I don't find». Amador GarcÃa dares to contradict the great totem of 20th century art. Picasso did indeed say once that his thing wasn't searching, but finding. And find he did…
«I search, I don't find». Amador GarcÃa dares to contradict the great totem of 20th century art. Picasso did indeed say once that his thing wasn't searching, but finding. And find he did…
We're always going on about the word "freedom", but few people know what it really means. You can live in a supposedly free country and be the most submissive person going, follow whatever the crowd dictates so as to blend into it, and still believe, after all that, that you're free.
Jinsheng You's overwhelming output is best savoured calmly: landscape in its romantic, fantastical or post-impressionist vein; still lifes and flowers, with a special passion for water lilies; and paintings…
We said in the review of Bet Calderer's artwork that gazes and faces are like a door opening onto the soul. We like to look people in the eye to find out sooner what they're hiding…
A face, a gaze. Why do we look each other in the eye? The gaze is a door that opens onto the soul, it's the hint of what lies beyond, of what's hidden. Words often head one way…
The loneliness of a bicycle in the last of the afternoon sun, the silence of a library, the buzz of a terrace, romance rocking a gondola… Jordi Torrent is a sharp-eyed observer who…
It was the first painting I looked for when I walked into the museum. Ever since my student days I'd fantasised about the chance to stand in front of that oil painting with which the young Picasso had changed the history of…
«Art doesn't require understanding, it requires spirit, soul. Art has to be interpreted emotionally, not intellectually, because the moment of emotional empathy comes in intellectual darkness…