Hace algún tiempo llegaron a mis manos unos interesantes documentales de la cadena británica BBC, los cuales llevaban por título "La vida privada de una obra maestra", en los que se mostraba las visicitudes de una serie de obras que han pasado de alguna forma a la historia del Arte. En ellos se analizaban las obras desde proceso creativo, estilístico e histórico y su paso del más absoluto anonimato hasta llegar a formar parte de la cultura de masas como imágenes populares. Influenciado por dichos CDs he realizado este cuadro que es el más ambicioso de los que he producido hasta la fecha y aunque no es tan "grande" como los iconos de los documentales, si pretende ser mi pequeña obra maestra.
- Juan Luis García
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"Juego de manos" 150 x 100 cm Oleo sobre lienzo |
The art work that Juan Luis García has decided to present at the international art exhibition "Philo Poem" organized by MADS Art Gallery of Milan, is entitled "Un gioco di mani" that means "A game of hands". It presents us with a dreamlike philosophical poetics in which love is represented as a card game, a game of poker in which the card that counts is the ace of hearts, symbolically represented by it's suit and by a visual game that gives shape to White paper. The whole painting in oil on canvas strikes us thanks to this sensation of mystery and amazement, typical of the surrealist works, inaugurated by Breton in 1924, with the phrase reported as the incipit of the following text. The work is divided into two clear and precise layers, separated as two words apart, but which somehow begin with cach other and complete each other through a story. On the upper part, the flat and uniform back ground of the sky appears to us as a witness to the games of kites, where the child Dalí and the three friends in then upper right symbolize the past time that could seem better to us. In the lower part, however, which occupies most of the painting, we meet a woman of Hispanic tradition and a patient dog in transparency, nest to her owner who sits on a bench waiting for the final outcome of the game. The astute observer will deduce that it is a simple sleight of hand, in which the die in cast. The art of freeing the imagination and desires of the unconscious is the superpower that struck Juan Luis, and that accompanies him on a very successful artistic path.
"Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of the sign, in the disinterested play of thought" (André Breton)
- Carola Antonioli (Art Curator)
