Antonio Saura
24 Nov 2011 - 14 Jan 2012
ANTONIO SAURA
Montages 1956-1996
24 November, 2011 – 14 January, 2012
This exhibition brings together around sixty of the “Montages”, given this name by the artist because they are not collages, but groups of small paintings or papers made in different places and at different times on the basis of superimposition, accumulation and metamorphosis. Saura’s primary intention was to “reflect the structures of the wall of life, where we pin up daily snapshots". A nostalgic tribute to the clippings album created by his father in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War but now irretrievably lost. In it we find themes that the artist holds dear: imaginary portraits, heads, shrouds, ladies, nudes, post cards with rubbings-out. Antonio Saura was born in Huesca in 1930 and died in Cuenca in 1998.
Montages 1956-1996
24 November, 2011 – 14 January, 2012
This exhibition brings together around sixty of the “Montages”, given this name by the artist because they are not collages, but groups of small paintings or papers made in different places and at different times on the basis of superimposition, accumulation and metamorphosis. Saura’s primary intention was to “reflect the structures of the wall of life, where we pin up daily snapshots". A nostalgic tribute to the clippings album created by his father in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War but now irretrievably lost. In it we find themes that the artist holds dear: imaginary portraits, heads, shrouds, ladies, nudes, post cards with rubbings-out. Antonio Saura was born in Huesca in 1930 and died in Cuenca in 1998.