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Paisatge acotació 62, 1977

Bounded Landscape 62, 1977
Graphic material, Plate: 62.5 x 43.5 cm; paper: 77.5 x 56 cm

I think that mine is a form of painting in which visual space has been – from the moment when I became completely aware of what I was doing – a concern that I would describe as constant. The real problem was – and still is – finding a space as the true protagonist of the picture. I would say the open space of lived-in landscape and not the more imitative space of “background figure.” In other words, space as a living element of the picture and not as a background on top of which one draws or places something. Personal existence and the exercise of it made me understand the validity of emptiness as an element of composition and break away from acquired conceptions which take it for granted that valid elements are denoted only by what one draws and not by the space – positive and negative – that the drawing engenders. It is a way of “seeing,” of CHANGING SPACE INTO SOMETHING ONE LOOKS AT.

This is as well, during this long courtship with space, an attempt at a visual understanding of the limits of the surface of the painting. (I do not know whether that comes from my incapacity to learn the measurement of standard stretchers. What I actually do is measure the space indicating the size with my hands in an effort to “experience,” “see,” “learn about” it, as if I had to get inside to understand it.) Consequently, there arises an incapacity to work from sketches so that it is always the chosen surface that as a base engenders, through its own format, its own dimension, what will finally be the picture.


Technical details

Original title:
Paisatge acotació 62
Registration number:
1417
Artist:
Hernández Pijuan, Joan
Date created:
1977
Date acquired:
1997
Fonds:
MACBA Collection. Government of Catalonia long-term loan
Object type:
Graphic material
Media:
Acquaforte on paper
Dimensions:
Plate: 62.5 x 43.5 cm; paper: 77.5 x 56 cm (height x width x depth)
Edition number:
Ed. 20/75
Credits:
MACBA Collection. Government of Catalonia long-term loan. National Collection of Art
Copyright:
© Joan Hernández Pijuan, VEGAP, Barcelona
It has accessibility resources:
No

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