Teaching
guide to the VIDEO: GASPAR CORTÉS ZARRÍAS. Artistic
development and exhibitions.1988- 1995 Introduction:
-Initiation to the world of arts. -Development. -Present moment. -Influences. REALISTIC PAINTING -IMPRESIONISM -POSTIMPRESIONISM-EXPRESIONISM-ABSTRACTION-ARTE POVERA- SIMBÓLIC PAINTING –NOT FIGURATIVE. In
the drawing room in 1988.
End
to figurative painting, allegoric wall paintings. Allegoric characters
using incision on wood to represent lines; on canvas, a string of rope
is used. A concentration on forms begin. Romantic works, characters
use quietness or torsions for communication Communion with the viewer.
A landscape of his own arises and almost hieratic and cold characters
are structured.
HABITACIÓN
PEQUEÑA (“SMALL ROOM”). Jabalcuz Gallery. 1989. Jaén.
Perfection
of characters, it begins a decontextualising and abstraction process
– it lacks background-. Incisions on wood to add determination
to the lines, first paintings on tablex, and usage of false engravings
in expressionistic looking drawings. Post modernistic elements.
FRAGMENTOS.
(“FRAGMENTS”). Caja Postal 1990. Jaén.
Exhibition
which advances on the “Small Room” exhibition topics, comprising
works on canvas and which were already dealt with in the drawing room.
Incision on canvas is done using a string of rope during the preparation.
Large size works. The drawings express the relationship of man to his
ego or the other characters of their environment. ROSTROS. (“FRAGMENTS”).
Jabalcuz School of Secondary Education. 1991. Jaén.
Small
size works which are a sequel to the former exhibition. The faces confront
each other expressing painful attitudes, arranged in diptychs and triptychs
or larger. Thick tactile textures are used to cause tension. The characters’
relationship takes a mirror-like fashion.
THE
PURPOSE OF TIME. Caja Sur 1992, Jaén.
Tones
are softened down and experimentation with grey scales begin. Characters
are replaced by objects witch stand for them or fragments of themselves,
predicting the symbols of forthcoming years. Just as if time crippled
us in its development and took part of us, eliminating thus all chromatic
details. The works seem to be related to sculpture and the finishing
imitates patina.
RITOS.
(“RITUALS”). Monte de Piedad de Córdoba Exhibition
Room. Sala la Muralla de Úbeda.1993.
Characters
fade away and are replaced by organic shapes which stand for desperate
reliefs reminding of Prehistoric sanctuaries where human and animal
sacrifices where carried out. There are outstanding stylistic advances
at this time: Conceptual Expressionism, art povera, Abstraction, Symbolism
and Primitivism above all. The symbol arises calling for the discovery
of its meaning. It is an esoteric game leading to the discovery of the
content of the work.
DOS PROPUESTAS(“Two proposals”).Association of Architects
Exhibition Room. Jabalcuz Gallery. 1994. Jaén.
These
exhibitions joins, in two different rooms paintings and drawings.
Paintings:
Symbolism
strips the work and screams out its meaning. Characters take more geometrical
shapes, and organic shapes are discarded. Visual or tactile textures
are employed for expression. The signifier of the works stands for man’s
constant relationship with its creator. Transcendence is still the main
topic, as was in the “Rituals” exhibitions. The work shows
large juxtaposed coloured surfaces which give a feeling of tranquillity.
Drawings
and collages:
Even
more representative than the simultaneous display of paintings. Carried
out using mixed techniques, enamel, pastel, pencil, collage, on rough
cardboard in "De la puerta hacia afuera" (“Outdoors”).
Wood, pastel, watered paint, in "Signos que no entiendo "
(“Signs I can’t understand”) and pastel, printed paper,
pencil on cardboard in "Panegíricos "(“Panegyrics”).
AZAHAAR
(“Orange Blossom”). Eduma Gallery, Linares .1995.
Shapes
have become definitively geometrical and the main actors are ellipses,
ovoid and ovals. It reminds of hatching – Creation - of a world.
When watching these works we feel the beginning of everything created
by natural energies and powers, MOTHER EARTH. Visual texture replace
the almost sculptural reliefs of former displays. Colour is more outstanding
and gay, though it is ponderously used.
Interview for TV Linares, during the AZAHAAR exhibition
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