May 7 / July 7
Under the title Retrovisions, the Eugenio Granell Foundation presents the French artist Guy Ducornets first individual exhibition in Spain.
In addition to being a plastic artist, Guy Ducornet, a historical member of the Chicago Surrealist Group (created in 1966 after the death of André Breton), is also a literary creator and an active exponent of surrealist ethics and aesthetics, understood from a political point of view.
By means of his work, Ducornet presents us with a world in which we have to immerse ourselves in matters of identity and memory, from an ever-critical and -demanding perspective, which are risks common to all his particular creation.
The artists exhibition at the Granell Foundation consists of a selection of recent plastic work, as well as a retrospective selection of his production: paintings, engravings, assemblages, sculptures, ceramics and symbolic objects.
The artist rediscovers for us the impression made on him by landscapes from his reading matter and experiences, constructing a work that is like a treasure map indicating a new itinerary that we should follow. His plastic production, a kind of poetical archaeology of everyday occurrence, is constructed with mementoes from his trips: real ones (like pieces of photographs, concert posters, film posters
) and with memories from his mental trips by means of literature, of the history of art (pieces of reproductions of artworks from the past, allusions to literary works
) and from his trips, in mind and body, as a free-jazz performer, which gives his work a flair for variations on the same plastic motif. Ducornet brings us the good news that it is possible to discover a magical universe, behind every experience.
In his work, full of humour, the omnipresent collage generates a fragmentary discourse that is open, free and active, inviting the spectator to reinterpret it time and again.
