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Miquel Barcel\u00f3 (Felanitx, Mallorca, Spain, 1957 \u2013 Felanitx, Mallorca, Spain and Paris, France, currently)<\/p>\n
Barcel\u00f3\u2019s birthplace on the island of Mallorca, the deserts and rivers of Africa, the beaches of Portugal, his Paris studio might be the memories of places that these works try to transport us to, but it is, in fact, to the paintings themselves, in their materiality and energy, that the artist takes us. His paintings are themselves the destinations, just as he has said, \u201cthe space between things and the picture.\u201d A place to encounter in the present.<\/p>\n
In reviewing three decades of Miquel Barcel\u00f3\u2019s work, one therefore realizes chronology is not of the utmost importance. The experiences and travels that have fed his creativity over time are an ever-present influence, in fact, just like his paintings, they are layered in a timeless way. And although the exhibition is non-sequential, the earliest works (Naufrage, 1984 and La Soupe, 1983) behave as bookends, the starting and ending points of the presentation, aiming to bring a sense of containment instead of trajectory within this broad timeframe of Barcel\u00f3\u2019s artistic output.<\/p>\n
We are guided through the exhibition with excerpts of a text by Dore Ashton that she wrote for Arte Espa\u00f1ol para el Exterior, Sociedad Estatal para la Acci\u00f3n Cultural Exterior to accompany a retrospective of Miquel Barcel\u00f3\u2019s work, with the addition of a few other supporting references, many quoting Barcel\u00f3 himself. While Ashton\u2019s impressions were informed by the paintings she saw at the time, this exhibition reverses the process, bringing some of Ashton\u2019s words back to visual life by putting them in context with the paintings and sculptures gathered here. In our way, we also celebrate her exceptional essay and, with this presentation, bring it full circle.<\/p>\n