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‘Jungle of fragmented objects’ is an exhibition dedicated to Philip West, featuring the collection of the Eugenio Granell Foundation, Santiago de Compostela.
We will display 82 works by the artist, who at an early age left his native York, England, where he was born on 20 February 1949, to settle in Zaragoza, Spain.
West recreated everyday objects in his imaginary world, creating a fantastic and unreal universe and embracing Surrealism’s motto in his artwork: Freedom, Love and Poetry. When he started his artistic production in the mid-1960s, his paintings had a figurative and surrealist style, taking more interest in the erotic side of Pop Art. His drawings of bugs and birds resulted from several ornithological trips to the sea and the countryside, responding to his interest in nature and living beings. Metaphorical works, with antagonistic languages and bright colours, featuring his own vision of the organic, the internal geographies of the earth and the human body, almost like a demonstration of the cycle of life – from birth to death – in search of an explanation of the phenomena of our existence. His work exhibits a combination of reality and dream, life and death, heaven and earth, man and angel, creating an iconographic and visual poetic cycle that sums up life, love and death.
A large part of the artwork exhibited here dates back to the early 1990s, at a time when the artist remarked that ‘nowadays, for me, surrealism is living life as if it were a poem. Since I don’t know where I’m heading, I try to enjoy the ride...’, adding that ‘... when I’m working, I don’t think, creative art is experience.’
This exhibition takes us on a journey through the work of Philip West, featuring multiple representative and transformative fragments of his jungle of objects.