Miralls, ecos i ombres
Diego Pujal - David Rhodes
General comments
on exhibition.
Jorge Luis Borges (Buenos Aires 1899-Geneva 1986) made three visits to Mallorca. The first, in March and July of 1919, the second, a longer visit, from May 1920 to February 1921, when he stayed in Palma de Mallorca and, finally in 1980, on being awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize. Borges believed that poems have a responsibility to mirror reality. In his poem, "Mirrors" (1960), like many of his late poems, a sonnet, he describes how mirrors capture inner psychic reality, not only that which we see reflected. Take these lines from the poem:
I look on them as elemental
Fulfillers of a very ancient pact
To multiply the world, as in the act
of generation, sleepless and dangerous
This is a view of language as much as a reflective surface. We can also think of painting as such a surface, capable equally of sensuous effects, as much as disturbing identifications. In the works of Diego Pujal and David Rhodes, such inherent qualities are abundantly present. Mirroring, recalls repetitions such as echoes, and shadows, the same things appearing differently, in other words. This is a characteristic of the paintings brought together for this exhibition. Apart from the dislocation of moving from one part, or place, to another, there is also a visual music, a possibility for rhythmic pattern, and transformation as the same thing appears again, but differently
Diego Pujal
coe | coe, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
61 x 105 cm (DÃptico - 61 x 50 cm cada bastidor)
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coe | coe, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
61 x 105 cm (DÃptico - 61 x 50 cm cada bastidor)
Diego Pujal
gramas de un golem c.e. , 2015
Acrylic on canvas
41 x 132 cm (TrÃptico - 41 x 33 cm cada bastidor)
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gramas de un golem c.e. , 2015
Acrylic on canvas
41 x 132 cm (TrÃptico - 41 x 33 cm cada bastidor)
