manuel morales espinosa

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"First of all, thank Leunam Selarom the opportunity to comment on / decipher and describe my work, which can not be left aside our own biographies and experiences, which have brought us to sit in this game quantum of life."
M.M
 
"THE ARTIST DOMESTIC"
Polifacético, multidisciplinary, Manuel Morales rather than an artist I should say, is a new way of understanding the world and act on it. Artist household as defined himself is not entirely far from the truth. Artist in his classic broad concept of the word, and in his domestic self-concept. And rather than try to resolve issues universal aesthetic or philosophical, which is trying to solve its yo-in-the-world, which has been serving all possible languages to be able to at least intuit the meaning of existence individually.
 
 
Leunam Selarom *
Telaviv / Barcelona 2007
 
 
(* Leunam Selarom Israeli origin is based in Barcelona. Friend and biographer of the artist).
 
 
 
COLLAGES, 1982

 
Start making collages his first works, cutting lyrics and images from newspapers. Although he himself has said, simply because it was started and a child who refused to disappear, a need to cut a figure after another and then combine them. Without being aware in those years, that was creating his first works.
In all these collages look at the personality and artistic future and Manuel Morales, his social concerns, their vision of the world and of religion. The uncertainty of the artist himself and the world. And how ya, began eagerly sought to himself.
 
 
BOXES

The objects of the children used in their laboratory, a passion for the subject found that, rather than conducting experiments, Manuel Morales was sumergía in the world of alchemy, more as a process in itself for self-knowledge, growth and attempted describe the world. And it is precisely this same nostalgia towards these specific objects of his childhood, makes the artist built his early works based on them, rather to give the objects of metaphysical content, thus maintaining the same connotation alchemical.
Objects that combined, and "cut" from its context, as in his collages, to represent well, something else.
Machine with the memory trigger activator, 1985 can be seen as the first piece in which Manuel Morales is already aware of his future as an artist. This same work holds and retains a history of real objects, which were used in real actions, and now go to the language of symbol and emotion.
Continued and a series of boxes, influenced by a history of experimentation in the laboratory of his house. Issues such as gravity, the attraction earth and moon. In which all elements are reused and combined, such as minerals formed rocks, the phrases meanings ... Another language.
 
 
DRAWINGS

Like all children, he feels an attraction to drawing his grandfather encouraged to the point of drawing the faces of his fellow college in the knees of teachers at the age of 8 years. Although the portrait ceased to be of interest to the artist as a photograph and the machine became popular. But even so, the picture, the sketch is the second step after the idea. And as for the realistic picture, as the artist says, "I still practicándolo once in a while, because it is something magical."
Here, we can see a few pictures from his own childhood to maturity. Illustrations custom and drawings by computer, as a mere game and amusement. Also projects never made sculptures or cities on the moon. Until caricatures of teachers and notebooks on the road.

PAINTINGS

In the paintings is where it is evidenced most clearly the evolution of artistic Manuel Morales in the learning process research and experimentation. Since his early realistic works through figuration to abstraction, as we see is adding little by little, first lines and then go matéricas covering the entire surface of the painting. Marking the case, a road to sculpture. Rather than searching for a style, has been painting for the artist, a path that has come to necessarily directed towards other disciplines that would allow them to better express their intentions expressive. Understanding their paintings, drawings and more developed than as painting itself.
In the series "Glosas" in watercolor, we see the influence of design, layout pure and simple. Coje his drawings and leads to engraving and painting. At this stage even the letter begins to change almost becoming Arabic. In his glosses we find a structure similar; at the top a drawing, and a text on the bottom, with inlaid icons, describing the picture above. Escudriñando own table, which is no more than the projection of the author himself trying sought, said.
Find a technique, a style with which they can express themselves and then going from one to another, traveling roads.

PAINTINGS. The Blue Period.

Rather than admire the blue paintings by Picasso, which admired Morales was the same blue and the phrase "Blue Period". And hence their interest also by Miro and Klein among others.
And here is where we find one of the qualities that Morales will be gradually developed in a mixture of humor and irony with a background spiritual and transcendent. The table, watching a Star Man is one example.
And here is when you mix an almost real Morales Morales painter and a cartoonist. Because in reality, many of these paintings of his Blue Period are extensions of a blue monochrome spiritual once dry, rayaba, emerging from the white background of the very fabric.
Very autobiographical this series of paintings, very intense experiences belong to the artist himself says as a time of passion, wine and internal struggles.

 
ART IN NATURE

In 1992, selected to undertake a course with Joan Guinovart on the beach of Castelldefels Barcelona, performs his first works where nature begins to manifest itself for the first time for the artist. If his sculptures previously dealt with in its domestic isolation in the study of his home, now comes to leave this world, starting a new road.
With a shovel digging a scar of about ten meters long. And gives burial with the organizers and colleagues comply with a plaster sculpture.
Start and a series of works in the wilderness where piolet becomes your pencil, and the measure of all things. It is the reference in the photograph of proportion and something deeper; what anthropological, animal in humans. And, as the author himself says: - We are still in the process of hominization.

OBJECT-SCULPTURES

 
With this compound word, "object-sculptures," Morales defines this first job in the three-dimensional sculpture. Everyday objects and domestic; ironing boards, tables, chairs, shoes, pianos, brushes, cups, paint palettes. All coated with cement, cement molds in some cases. In short, the everyday, bombed on its surface with symbols of nature, emotional, psychological and anthropological.
These sculptures are inevitably a linear achievement, and empathy for their boxes lined objects. But now larger, occupying one, the object, an entire arena, "Set for Life, 1995" title presentation of this work in the Civic Centre Sant Andreu de Barcelona.
In the play "OFFICERS OF THE TERTULIA" 1993 Morales conducts its first piece perfomática, or rather a happening. Build a table, a silkscreen Ferlosio without firing a weapon, for what that philosophy is a clay pigeon shooting without shotgun. Transfer to table the Spanish alphabet and invites friends to dinner. At the meeting the contertulios dinner on the table and plotted to forget about it. Even today you can see the remains of wine, sugar, etc. what was a dinner, a meeting between life and art.
Later, in collaboration with the photographer lluis Carbonell performs these two photographs with a light gun, drawing the scar without seeing and iluminandose hands. Each of the two photos is a very open session with the diaphragm of the camera.
This series of sculptures are in fact a clear tribute to people who are going to emerge as we described. The pianosantos he came to the artist in the Palau de la Música in Barcelona hearing Carles Santos. The individual table to Beuys. The ironing board to Man Ray. The bureau of the gathering his friends.

MARBLE

Continuing his way to work found objects, and in this case and as he defined its principles as "domestic marble" found in containers on the streets, and belonging to kitchens, and still many, still with traces of what their past inscribed on them and that Manuel in some cases, has preserved and maintained.
Thus, what the artist is to continue the discipline of painting in the process of creating a volume on flat surfaces. A clear continuity of their artwork, but this time, leaving the color to aim and deeper into shape.
"The freshness of his work" as a very well defined Juan Andres, which gives these works, a simplicity and lightness to it subtracts its heaviness. Juan Andres, a teacher certainly Manuel Morales, taught the young artist's philosophy Torres Garcia and as he himself says, A-Juan Andres I think my father artistic, he taught me how to build. If one knows build, can face any discipline.

SCULPTURES PRIVATE

 
In line with marble work surface with flat pieces, the artist performs some orders in private gardens where the works, and larger, pointing to the sky; footprints to a human spirituality marked by the Roman readings humanists and Christian.
Plants covering all marble, the two works, as seen from afar, apparently are equal; white and straight roads that penetrate the blue sky, and in the black of night.

 
PUBLIC SCULPTURE

Invited by the Municipality of Sant Boi de Llobregat and in collaboration with other local artists in the same village, Morales performs two sculptures located in two places very close. The first, Homage to Nature, 1998 and as a matter of the entire sculptural intervention consisting of bronze plaques, made with the lost wax mold with laurel leaves to a plant that holes and Laurel. The title of his book, The triumph of nature on your behalf, 1998, already defines the importance and the place where he took the nature When thinking about their own concepts plastics. And here I call plastic Beuysiano within the meaning of the plastic society. Practice that extends to all done in the society.
An overview of his writings in gross Confessions, 2006, we see how the artist comes to define clearly what took place human beings in nature and the nature of the human being inside.
The intervention of sculptural Tiovivo, 2002, in conjunction with local artists Sant Boi, performs a puppet in steel, fruit and result of the talks with Antoni Roig, president, then in Barcelona, Amical Mauthausen.
The sculptural work, his birth and its realization, created collectively resulted in a series of reflections on the human condition, power struggles and misery of human beings, and that we can also Confessions gross, 2006.

INSTALLATION

 
His first installation is also his first sculpture carved in wood; Patella added that the cement and oil. The base is also oil and canvas.
Bones is a topic that often works, like the scar, the bones are death, the scar injury, the patella heaviness and tension of the body focused on one point, like when the red paint in his paintings.
The chair of the reflection and The Banquet, are geared toward a reflection on the cannibalism of human beings. In the installation, we are the objects that have been worn on purpose to the case, envejecerlos. Inside the trough, we find bones. This, and the chairs, giving the impression that has been used many times, and have left a dirt and wear. "The wear is the story of the object," says Juan Andres.
Outside of the tragedy earlier, we have a tribute to St. George, the day of the book. With some irony, the plant Manuel money over a book as part of a pedestal composed and embellished by fabric curtains, recalling the interior decoration of a house.
It seems that in general Morales begins with the installation of the most dramatically for future use and steadily since the irony. Although the first with his cagaderos in each chair not far from subtle irony that gradually will be characterized.
In installing the Vomitero, even exposing a plumbing shop and furniture. It has an ergonomic support for the front can rest some ročajev to maintain balance and make better withstand the force or exit from food and beverages.
Collectives and individuals, 1996 is the last installation. I do not know if it is the last we find nothing of irony. They appear bones again, as in the first installation banquet. And a reference to individuals or groups. There is a relationship between the two facilities, even if it seems not, basically talking about the same. But they are light years away from each other on how to deal with getting to talk to the materials. At The Banquet hear a lot of noise, and music collective silences.
Maybe, probably yes, it is the author himself which is already light years away from its origins.

SHORT FILMS

As sometimes happens in the movie, a friend he leaves a film of Super 8. 1992 but not before building a small machine with grid, and light lens itself to manipulate each frame. Then come Aura and Communion. But not until 2006 that he made known until he composed music as proposed in 1992 when performed.
The influence of television in sculpture, 1995 is an experimental video Manuel Morales leading to the path of performance. Unique experimental video on VHS that presented in the gallery La Santa in his first action-video-installation.
Later came Action No. 1 film that more than a title, which came to say to the author, is that it was and it was action movie. Shares real front of the camera: action, cutting and background music: cinema. The result is a real action, only handled in his court; Real, theatrical and cinematic; Action film.
With Teixit d'un somni, 2004 strikes with the classic short in both senses of the word, classic when it comes to working with actors, costumes, production in general. And the second meaning is thus a historical theme, a script based on the author's own life of a female worker at the Colònia Guell at the beginning of the twentieth century, and where an entire people was involved in carrying out the short, also friends, family, public and private institutions. All the ingredients that brings cinema today.

PERFORMANCES

The best performances that define the work of Manuel Morales in the discipline, could be those of Acció to Agramunt, and El Carro poetic spirit of the television. The first, at the invitation of the founding Espai Guinovart, Manuel Morales travels to the land of ochre artist Guinovart to meet with the tragic past of his childhood; the Spanish Civil War. With a series of photo-shares, the artist tries to "enter" in a space-time retained in, again, the objects found, and an archaeological landscape that is transported to these moments of panic, of tragedy, of loneliness. Again the historical played with poetry.
In his serigrafiados panels on both sides, perhaps the artist wants to convey that in a situation of tragedy, there is also a nostalgia, of the emotions of that time. There are so many emotions in the good and the bad, that the memory is guided by them.
In poetic Carro, enters the game and communicative dialogue with the people who pass in the action. The performer is aimed at passersby to ask them to leave with his polaroid photograph, the photograph them, puts it in a plastic bag filled with water and placed on a cart that wanders through the streets. Often the car ends in a gallery or a museum exhibited. Here again the object is an intermediary between the artist and the rest of the people, the car and the camera are objects which serve as a pretext to engage in a relationship and exchange. The object becomes a medium, and ceases to be an end in itself, anteponiéndolo consumerism.
The action The spirit of television, 2005 1995, which in turn was inspired and gestada in Castle Montesquiu in Quinzena d'art of this population in the who was selected in 1994.
In this experimental video artist discovers at the end of the repeated image of a television in front of a camera, a bright ball with which they can interact. With explanations worthy of a teacher is able to relate the theory of relativity Einstein, and the lighting effects of the experiment. Manuel Morales, new and used machaconamente means to an end, to inform attendees of a discovery and share without further ado, to involve them in something that is real, using the instruments, tools, technology, again as a means to reach an end.
This video from 1995, leads the artist to perform a series of works on this subject. Since the first presentation in the gallery Holy 1995 the same year in which conducted a video-installation, until the publication of a book by Jordi Wall text of the same video. Later, back in 1997, conducted a series of serigraphs in agglomerates of photographs captured by television. Naciendo later cited the action before. But not without first making another action in the same presentation of the book and themselves serigraphs, where the actor, singer and poet, Victor Naranjo, is pretending to be the artist playing the piano and recites the text.
This whole body of work, Morales to take action "The spirit of the television presented for the first time at La Casa Encendida Madrid under the International Festival of Performance Barcelona, the eBent'06 who was also a member.
In 1995 holds its first action, and like all performers who start shy, will offer a flyer silkscreened two colors. The text is inspired by the German artist Joseph Beuys in his concept of art and sculpture expanded social. It gives bystanders, the leaves on the windshields of cars, and so on. And makes a sculpture in the form of a table covered with corresponding, referring to the first basic need of human beings; eat. Morales in his tract intends to social sculpture to Beuys, How?
Following the same theme is conducting a series of serigraphs two colors on agglomerate. They are photographs of the video pilot in 1995 where he discovered what it believes Manuel Morales who is the spirit of the television.
In napkins paper, make a print run in a silkscreen color, about how the brain can become a threat if we are not our critics. And in all this drama, of course, we refer to the Stockholm syndrome protagonist of the video, which makes television eat his own excrement and even like.

MUSIC

 
Start studying music alongside those of fine arts in 1982, Maria Carbonell piano with one hand and plastic with Juan Andres on the other. Singing with the daughter Maria, and even Gregorian chant for one year in Sant Felip Neri, back in the mid-eighties. At the end of 1983 begins to compose simple piano works. In 1984 even will premiere a piece in the Barcelona Athenaeum dedicated to his professor Maria Carbonell "waves". With a clear influence of Erik Satie, the French impressionists and the Catalan postimpresionismo which is heir.
A commission failed for the International Theatre Festival of Sitges in 2004, makes Morales revitalized his musical side and puts a soundtrack to their own short films from 1992-93; Aura and Communion.
In 2006 collects in a compact his compositions and encouraged by this momentum, performs a piano recital devoted exclusively to gnosienne and gimnopèdie by Erik Satie in Sant Boi de Llobregat.
Dedicated currently compose The réquien Manresa, for the soundtrack to his upcoming movie "Confessions gross," Morales summarized here, the philosophy of his actual life, the attitude of my own-in-the-world, where just so far had been, I-face-to-world.