“Model d’ús” per a l'Eric

In 1992 Ramon Guillen-Balmes began his Models d’ús series, which he continued throughout the 1990s. He invited close friends to share with him something they desired or lacked and then created a specific object for each one. Influenced by the materials of his early work as a model maker, he fashioned them in natural-coloured wood and white felt. Guillen-Balmes used the anatomy of the human body to create a language of his own. Wings of absent angels and time spent waiting and resting, along with other longings, are invoked in the drawings that indicate how these sculptural objects are to be used, as in these embodying the wishes of Eric and Laura. His object-based poetics come close to surrealism, with what look like organic prostheses engaging in dialogue with desire and the automatisms of the unconscious.