Presentation on 7 May at 18:30. Curators: Aureli Domènech and Tono Herrero. Artist: Gerardo Stübing
In his dual role of artist and botanist, we took
Gerardo Stübing painting as a game of complicity
between a scientist and an artist. A game in which the painting’s poetic
is not disturbed by science, but slightly
catalyzed, inspired by taxonomy and then
abandoned it to inspiration. A game in which the scientist
provides an empirical knowledge that by brush in hand
becomes passion, abstraction, texture and fractality.
These words worked as a metaphor on
the duality of Gerardo Stübing (artist and scientist),
the knowledge of the underlying truth after
the colourist and aesthetic vocation of his brush-strokes
exceed this speech.
Embarked on this painting career as part of
a dynamic artistic work, always speculative and
researcher, it seems logical that sooner or later Gerardo had
had the need to seek other borders
to keep on growing as a painter.
And in the field of botanical a name comes almost as a
natural choice if you seek a "deus ex machina" of Stübing’s work:
drawings by the Valencian botanist Antonio
José Cavanilles.
Pioneer of the classification and inventory of flora, one of
the few enlightened given by the Valencian eighteenth century,
Cavanilles is, most of all, a key figure in the collective imagination
of our land. His observations and drawings of
Valencian flora are reference and revered works
by almost every town, since it is part of
its sentimental story and certainly as a documentary
treasure.
Nearly from a metaphysical point of view, we can say that
Cavanilles is a transcript of what we Valencians may
become, or perhaps what we wanted to be.
In short, one path, two looks.
www.gerardostubing.com/
ScheduleFrom 7 may 2015 to 23 may 2015. Every day at 11:00 to 20:00.
Exhibitions Room of Casino Liberal. Algemesí
Office of the Vice-Principal for Territorial Projection and Participation in collaboration with the Town Council of Algemesí.
Contact vicerec.participacio.projeccio@uv.es / unitatsuport@uv.es