Paco Sanguino
Paseo de Interiores
19th April – 19 May 2008 final week ~ última semana
Paco Sanguino’s majestic canvases are meticulously-worked masterpieces of colour and texture.One the one hand, a simple testament to the artist’s passion and sheer enjoyment of the infinite possibilities of pigment and paint.On the other hand, open to infinite interpretations.There is no explicit imagery yet into each one you can find a narrative, if that’s what you seek, or an imaginary landscape, or vast calm emptiness.There is a hint of the baroque and their majesty and magic lie deeply buried … in layer upon layer …..
You’ll be able to glean more of an insight into his work from Paco’s own text below. And if you have the opportunity, come and view the real article in the gallery, where these large canvases seem to perfectly suit the proportions and tranquil ambiance of the sala.
“En este nuevo trabajo intento influenciarme de las mismas sensaciones de las que me suelo influenciar desde hace años, que son al fin y al cabo, el interior de las cosas y los espacios que las rodean, las cosas cercanas y cotidianas, y los grandes espacios que hay dentro y fuera de ellas.
El oxido gotea muy lentamente y la cal apulgarada entre las comisuras de los muros y los restos de pegamento de algunos papeles que han estado pegados ahí, una eternidad.
En el cielo estelas anaranjadas, y en mis manos el olor a trementina, y mis oídos adivinan el deambular de barcos navegando por el río, que viaja silencioso.
En esa quinta hora, en la que estoy profundamente sumido en mis soledades, surge el ansia de pasear por interiores; Interiores de fuego y de agua, de sombra y de luz, son interiores que están dentro y están fuera.
He salido a pasear, por caminos que están surcados más hacia adentro de lo que yo pensaba, y estoy atrapado en ellos, y me hablan, y me seducen, y me rodean. Son paseos por interiores, que están dentro y que están también fuera.”
“In this new work I try to recapture the sensations that used to influence me years ago, the sensations that are, after all, inside things and the spaces that surround them, things nearby and everyday, as well as the big spaces that lie within and outside them.
The rust flaking very slowly, the cal pressed into cracks in the walls and the scraps of bill posters that have been stuck there for an eternity.In the sky, orange-tinted slipstreams, and in my hands the smell of turpentine, and my ears can make out the wanderings of boats sailing along the river as it flows on silently.
In that fifth hour in which I am deeply submerged in my solitude, the longing to pass into those interiors wells up;interiors of fire and water, of light and shade, interiors that are inside and out.
I’ve gone out to walk, to walk the well-trodden paths that lead deeper than I had thought; and I am trapped in them. They speak to me, and seduce me and surround me.They are the way into interiors, that are inside as well as out.”
Paco Sanguino
Galería La Rampa, c/Eduardo Shelly 4, Vejer de la Frontera
11am – 2pm daily, 6pm – 9pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Closed on Tuesdays.
Other times by appointment.
www.galerialarampa.com
