KVT thăm đi thăm lại triển lãm của Corazon

Tôi đã đến xem triển lãm và được dự buổi nói chuyện của hoạ sĩ về triển lãm tại Viện Bảo Tàng. Các vấn đề mà Alberto nói về các sáng tác của ông gây ra sự thích thú không chỉ của riêng tôi mà còn của hầu hết những người có mặt trong buổi nói chuyện hôm đó. Rất tiếc vì hầu hết các tác phẩm trong triển lãm đều không phải là những tác phẩm gần đây, nên khó có thể có được một cái nhìn xuyên suốt cả quá trình sáng tác của hoạ sĩ. Những chia sẻ của hoạ sĩ với người xem như một lần nữa mở ra với người xem con đường thứ hai tiếp cận với tác phẩm, từ khía cạnh phân tích của chính hoạ sĩ. Thực sự rất cảm ơn Alberto và các tác phẩm của ông!

Attending the ‘intellectual’ Corazon lecture…

Well, a lecture is too big a word for meeting the Spanish artist Corazon in the Fine Arts Museum. It was the day after the opening when some artists, including me, were at the exhibition with the artist to talk about his work. We learned a lot…

The exhibition itself had been selected by a curator, and he himself was surprised to find what was on show. This wasn’t his best works, he said, and this was not his conceptual art. When I asked what he meant with ‘conceptual art’, because his drawings could (for me at least) be conceptual art. His answer to my question was ”it is all written down in my book”! Which is only in Spanish. by the way. According to Corazon, his titles where better than his art, and these titles give all the meaning. I hope, Kvt that you have read these?

On the question why he uses icons out of historical art works, like the cut leaves from Matisse or other used icons from Goya or Kounellis, he was surprised that I saw Matisse in his work. This was not a joke. He would have a look at it again at home…

Then he went on talking about painting with Dutch oil. I had no clue what he meant. When I had a closer look at his paintings it looked like stand oil. It doesn’t matter for me but it tells something about what this man had to say.

To tell you the truth, it was a waste of time and it was embarrassing that this was arranged by the Spanish embassy.

After his nonsensical talk, we suddenly had to leave: he was tired.

The poor man, so little to say about his work in such a hot country, with all the work he didn’t choose himself, they where just laying in his studio… Oh, by the way: he was happy with the framing…

So I went back to see the exhibition later again. Maybe the work is better if he didn’t talk about it. And yes, the sculpture was nice: wood and lead, a beautiful combination. Like marble, too beautiful material… This doesn’t mean that I found a great opportunity to see his work and that I am happy the Spanish Embassy organizes it here in Hanoi