Maquina
28 x 20 inches (h x w)
Mixed Mida
2003
About the Artwork:
Maquina means machines in Spanish. Juan Canals Carreras states about the work that, "I remember when I was little my uncle in his small textile workshop, I was very taken by seeing the machines in motion and above all that this synchronous movement was capable of creating objects. Machines were little creative beings. That idea of machines that create things led me to study precisely the specialty of Machine Tools for a time." Details: Painting and Collage on paper.
Artist Statement:
Juan Canals Carreras exclaims about his art practice, " My work is to a certain extent a diary of painted emotions. In my painting there is a struggle between figuration and abstraction. Sometimes one end wins, sometimes not. Yet, to some extent, both ends are present. They cohabit in the plane of the artwork. Many times, the majority of the support ends up supporting an infinite number of interventions that take place over time. Most of my work is in mixed painting techniques.
As the pictorial art practice, I experience resistance when I consider carrying out a previously planned or configured project - Therefore, I let it flow. I work mainly from the impulse or drive, collecting some of the methods used in the surrealist era, in this way, the work is constructed in a non-foreseeable or predictable way, but once that period of drive has passed, a more constructivist action is built conditions towards subsequent transformations.
A desire to give value not only to the work as a finished artifact, but also to those attempts that have not reached completion, but that have occupied time and space in the artist's processual journey is reflected and thus giving relic value to a portion of executed work and passage of time of the person who executes the work. Automations, letting the emotions, the moment, let whatever has to happen flow. I am you, you are me, we are energy that interacts. I also tend to capture references that are part of my imagination. Possibly the flying devices from my teen times."
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