El año
comienza con esta exposición de Rik Lina en Amsterdam.
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| Rik Lina, Copa Degas, 1983 |
“My homages
and tributes to admirable ancestors are no exercises in style. They are in the
first place travels of discovery in a parallel universe where ancestors -
painters, poets, musicians - wander about, restless, ghostlike, elusively
alluring, and always striking in alarming way. Such as Odilon Redon, his
flower-bouquets mirror in my coral reef paintings, recognizing his lithographic
black during night dives by the new moon. Or the meeting with Loplop Bird
when I - too shy to offer my hand - pinched his photograph from the press-table
in his retrospective in Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum 50 years ago... it is still
hanging in my studio. Hercules Seghers, neighbor in the Amsterdam
Jordaan-district, wandering with me in the Sahara, Sinaï and Atacama deserts...my
Chinese, Japanese and Arabic calligraphy-teachers...it is true all these
impressions defined my technique or acted as temporary anchorage in the
boundless ocean of painting. Max Ernst’s Elephant of Celebes became my Elephant
of Sulawesi, Vincent van Gogh’s Potato Eaters became my Potato
Head Blues, literal origin from my octopus of styles for which I still am
looking for trousers”.
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De Rik Lina aportamos seguidamente un documento en
que se muestran sus trabajos con poetas (Laurens Vancrevel, Mário Cesariny, Édouard Jaguer, Alain-Pierre Pillet, Ted Joans, Peter Wood, Miguel de Carvalho, Sergio Lima, Raúl Henao, Allan Graubard, Will Alexander, etc.), y a la vez aprovechamos para dar a
conocer las actividades durante 2019 con sus amigos del colectivo automatista de Amsterdam, incluido un homenaje a Pierre Alechinsky entre él y Jan Gilliam.
together with the poets
capa 2019
together with the poets
capa 2019
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Y, como primicia, adelantamos la publicación de este libro, nueva colaboración con Allan Graubard:
