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Galeria Fucares Almagro: Miki Leal / MIKITHOLOGY - 27 June 2009 to 26 Sept 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Miki Leal, The Totem, 2009.
Acr�lico y acuarela sobre papel. 113 x 75.7 cm. |
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Miki Leal / MIKITHOLOGY F�cares Gallery is pleased to present Miki Leal�s (Seville, 1974) first solo exhibition at our art gallery in Almagro. �I dropped old Phoebe�s record. It broke into about fifty pieces [�]. I damn near cried, it made me feel so terrible, but all I did was, I took the pieces out of the envelope and put them in my coat pocket. They weren�t good for anything, but I didn�t feel like just throwing them away.� D.J. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye Mikitology is not a title chosen at random � it is not even the artist�s private joke for himself and for jazz, when, half in earnest half teasingly, he first decided to put this name to an exhibition. Mikitology is the territory in which Miki Leal paints or lives; in which he views other paintings, chooses scenes from movies, selects record covers or discovers books. Mikitology is a personal, cryptic world in which the artist, with an absolute innocence, does not let anybody in, coming out once in a while to those of us who approach him with interest and curiosity, opening his doors for us like the perfect host as he unfolds on the floor, or hangs on the wall, the papers on which traces of the lives fabricated by Miki Leal in Mikitology have settled. No path leads us in there. We can look at his work and think that we understand all that he tells us. Sometimes we may decipher some hidden meaning, or project on it our personal knowledge of those records, books or film cuts, but then we�ll never be walking towards Mikitology. Mistakenly, we considered ourselves his guests of honour, because the artist makes us mistakenly feel as such with his nice colours and old records, evocative for us all of apparently common places and times � of their domestic architectures, their dreamlike landscapes, their poetic glazes� But Mikitology is a closed, dark, dense universe crammed with the lucidity of an artist who has matured and already has the humbly proud gaze of real artists, those who know there�s nothing ahead but the path each one traces for themselves, and then nothing. This is the reason why Miki Leal cannot be disentangled from Mikitology anymore; because it is his defence against despair; this mysterious and prophetic domain is the place where man dies and the artist lives. Mar�a Jos� Solano Franco. Madrid, 2009 Miki Leal / MIKITHOLOGY La Galer�a F�cares se complace en presentar la primera exposici�n individual de Miki Leal (Sevilla, 1974) en su espacio de Almagro. �Se me cay� al suelo el disco de Phoebe y se rompi� como en cincuenta pedazos [�]. Me sent� tan mal que estuve a punto de echarme a llorar, pero todo lo que hice fue recoger los pedazos y met�rmelos en el bolsillo del abrigo. Ya no serv�an para nada, pero a�n as� no me apetec�a tirarlos.� D.J. Salinger, El guardi�n entre el centeno. Mikitology no es s�lo un t�tulo al azar, ni siquiera es ya el gui�o que el artista se hac�a a s� mismo y al Jazz medio en serio medio en broma, cuando por primera vez decidi� llamar as� a una exposici�n. Mikitology es el territorio donde Miki Leal pinta o vive; donde mira otros cuadros, elige escenas de pel�culas, selecciona portadas de discos o descubre libros. Mikitology es un mundo personal; cr�ptico, donde el artista ,de forma absolutamente inocente, no permite entrar a nadie, s�lo asomarse a ratos a los que nos acercamos con inter�s y curiosidad, abri�ndonos como un perfecto anfitri�n sus puertas mientras despliega en el suelo o cuelga en la pared los papeles donde se han ido quedando los restos de las vidas que Miki Leal fabrica en Mikitology. No hay caminos que nos lleven hasta all�. Podemos mirar su obra, creer que entendemos lo que nos cuenta. Tal vez a veces logramos descifrar alg�n significado oculto, o lanzamos sobre ella nuestros conocimientos personales de aquellos discos, libros o trozos de pel�culas, pero jam�s estaremos caminando hacia Mikitology. Falsamente, pensamos que somos sus invitados de honor, porque el artista falsamente nos hace sentirnos como tales, con sus colores amables, sus discos viejos con t�tulos que a todos nos evocan lugares y tiempos aparentemente comunes, sus arquitecturas dom�sticas, sus paisajes enso�ados, sus po�ticas veladuras... Pero Mikitology es un universo cerrado, oscuro, denso, con la densidad de la lucidez de un artista que ha madurado, que mira ya con esa mirada de humilde orgullo que tienen los creadores de verdad; esos que saben que delante no hay mas que el camino que uno va trazando y despu�s la nada. Por eso Miki Leal ya no puede desprenderse de Mikitology; porque esa es su defensa de la desesperaci�n; el terreno misterioso y prof�tico donde muere el hombre y vive el artista. Mar�a Jos� Solano Franco. Madrid, 2009. |
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