wind, stars and ash trees. a stray dog’s path
In general, nature has been very important in what has been done, in large works of art and in small drawings, too. Nature has always surrounded and gone through absolutely everything. This exhibition is like a pool which has been created by a waterfall. And that pool is organised like a landscape, or that’s how I see it, anyway. That’s how it’s made up. In one sense art, too, is nature, and this exhibition is a landscape made up of landscapes, a meta landscape.
In these moments, and always, exhibitions seem like strange things to me. I don’t see much sense in them. After losing that necessary closeness, suddenly it becomes a varied distance. Painting and sculpting, and then exhibiting, seems like quite an abstract thing to me. The thing is, painting’s quite an old thing and exhibitions are
quite new things. Workshops are quite solitary, intimate places; exhibitions, on the other hand, are for the public, and that’s been too easily accepted. Some people say that an exhibition is a natural consequence, but they don’t sat what type of consequence it is. An exhibition is always the result of an explosive flood, otherwise how could the work grow when it is in the exhibition, taking over the walls, wanting to escape... Art is nature, wild nature.
From a stray dog’s point of view
Lost dogs behave and walk in a special way. With a little bit of attention, anybody can distinguish between the way a stray dog and a dog which isn’t lost walk. The way stray dogs run is
especially peculiar as all stray dogs ever do is look for things. Leopoldo Ferran’s exhibition is, in a sense, the landscape for that search.
Markos Zapiain
The artist from Irun Leopoldo Ferran gives an answer to humanity’s basic behaviour. A nomad, he’s always on the move. He follows his instincts and his needs. His installations understand nature in a universal way. This isn’t one of those clever-clever comments about art. In Leopoldo Ferran’s work there is no separation between what is nature and what is not. The best example of this is the new façade he made for Donostia’s San Telmo Museum. It is an installation which become nature in itself. At Getaria’s Musée de Guéthary until the end of June.
In these moments, and always, exhibitions seem like strange things to me. I don’t see much sense in them. After losing that necessary closeness, suddenly it becomes a varied distance. Painting and sculpting, and then exhibiting, seems like quite an abstract thing to me. The thing is, painting’s quite an old thing and exhibitions are
quite new things. Workshops are quite solitary, intimate places; exhibitions, on the other hand, are for the public, and that’s been too easily accepted. Some people say that an exhibition is a natural consequence, but they don’t sat what type of consequence it is. An exhibition is always the result of an explosive flood, otherwise how could the work grow when it is in the exhibition, taking over the walls, wanting to escape... Art is nature, wild nature.
From a stray dog’s point of view
Lost dogs behave and walk in a special way. With a little bit of attention, anybody can distinguish between the way a stray dog and a dog which isn’t lost walk. The way stray dogs run is
especially peculiar as all stray dogs ever do is look for things. Leopoldo Ferran’s exhibition is, in a sense, the landscape for that search.
Markos Zapiain
The artist from Irun Leopoldo Ferran gives an answer to humanity’s basic behaviour. A nomad, he’s always on the move. He follows his instincts and his needs. His installations understand nature in a universal way. This isn’t one of those clever-clever comments about art. In Leopoldo Ferran’s work there is no separation between what is nature and what is not. The best example of this is the new façade he made for Donostia’s San Telmo Museum. It is an installation which become nature in itself. At Getaria’s Musée de Guéthary until the end of June.
