Juan Navarro Baldeweg "Pintar, Pintar"

Marlborough Chelsea

poster for Juan Navarro Baldeweg "Pintar, Pintar"

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To appreciate this exhibition to the fullest, it is important to know that Navarro Baldeweg, in addition to working as a renowned painter and sculptor, is one of the most important architects in Spain. Architecture plays a large role in these works, as the artist provides varying degrees of spatial and architectural clarity. In the painting Pintar I, for example, the rendering of the walls, ceiling beams, and floor firmly place the clearly defined canvas on the ground with the artist bent over it.
The work Pintor I, however, provides no obvious delineation between canvas and walls, and the viewer is left to wonder if the figure is painting on the walls or a canvas, and if he has created everything around him or only the space in front of him. With El estudio I (dos cuadros), Navarro Baldeweg abandons both the figure and the architectural structure altogether, leaving the viewer to situate himself within the canvas. This spatial ambiguity suggests that the subject of these works is not the spaces they represent but the artistic processes they embody.
As Navarro Baldeweg himself explains, “the theme of the paintings in this exhibition is the act of painting itself, in its most simple and direct form. Many works depict the studio and the painter in action in front of the canvas. This scene can immediately convey the movement of the hand and the body over the canvas, or the unknown effect of gravity on the poured paint, or the marks created by stencils made of flattened paper...”

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from January 27, 2011 to February 26, 2011

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