30 January – 15 June
Room Philip West. First Floor
The Eugenio Granell Foundation Museum presents the exhibition Casas camufladas by the surrealist artist Philip West, curated by Eduardo Valiña. This exhibition, featuring works belonging to the Museums collection, can be visited until June 15, 2014.
The exhibition, located on the first floor, in the Philip West Room, introduces us to the artists world by means of a series of window-like figures, which enable us to peer into his inner self. He forms a private space, the body-house that serves as a dialogue between the artist and the spectator, and functions as a container for the soul and the spirit, which sometimes presents a perfectly kept house and on other occasions one in a ruinous state. The distances between two worlds disappear: the internal, personal world and the external one, ranging from the minimum to immensity, creating something new with ideas from the unconscious and subjective world.
Philip West thereby reveals an introspective image, making the most of the minimum and intimate world of the home with corners and latches, with sleep as the basic element. By means of different planes that subdivide the work horizontally and vertically, he presents interior spaces full of memories, houses that serve as a poetical metaphor of a drawer where the memory remains and stimulates the unconscious. Inside these houses, sometimes hidden and concealed, actions take place that are full of meanings and symbols, which have to do with the world of intimacy and personal hygiene, a world that is hidden behind walls with a basic symbolic element, water, something that is highlighted in other works by the artist. There are spaces for passions and sex, within a pairing that Philip West relates directly and presents together: love and death.
