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Julian Schnabel

20/01/1995. (Sala 165)

Julian Schnabel admired the space of La Sala Vinçon and on his visits to Barcelona he commented that he would like to intervene in it.

The occasion arose when in 1995, during the assembly of his exhibition at the Fundació Miró, he realized that one of the large 6 x 4 meter pieces could not be exhibited due to lack of space. It was then that he contacted Fernando Amat, who gladly gave him the space for this single painting.

The untitled work belongs to the collection of pieces painted in Florida on ship’s canvas, sewn together.

“All paintings, in fact, are metaphoric. It reminds you of something that you might have seen, a key to your imagination. To those who think painting is just about itself, I’m saying the exact opposite. The concreteness of a painting can’t help but allude to a world of associations that may have a completely other face than that of the image you are looking at. The concept of Formalism imposes false limits on painting under the guise of esthetic purity, as if such a thing could exist in real life.”

Julian Schnabel