Bleu II

Eugenio Ampúdia

14/10/93. (Sala 154)

“Blue II” is a proposal of intervention in art and its market that goes beyond the framework of the unitary work. Art, conceived and instrumented as a closed act between the artist and his work, is transgressed in this installation and becomes the critical axis on which it is based.

It is a radial position that affects the mechanisms of production, commercialization and possession of art, with the aim of desacralizing the relationships between the parties involved in the artistic process as it is structured. Criticism is materialized in plastic terms, precisely to close the cycle of research within the very meaning of what is artistic.

All the elements that intervene in this work, by their quality and function, are part of a critical representation of the ingredients that define the established conception of art. The social, mercantile and, above all, gestural codes of the participants in the artistic act are inverted here by the same characters but with other contents.

The silkscreen: In each one of them Miró’s eyes appear in a plastic game. Its resolution combines the original work with multiplicity through a numbering that makes all the pieces unique.

The photo: It represents a new look on the art buyer. It forces him to fill with his own image the physical void left by the work he has just acquired. The set of photos represents a complete sample of the physical topology of the public that accepts to be part of this plastic game.

The buyer: He actively participates in the process and does so by choosing a piece and, therefore, the place where the image that the polaroid will capture will go. By changing the image for the silkscreen printing he/she buys, he/she introduces a modification in the final result of the work.

Final result: Image formed by 2,856 polaroids that together compose a version of the painting Bleu II painted by Miró in 1961.

November 14th, 1993.