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First published to accompany major retrospective exhibitions at
West Cork Arts Centre and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA),
this full-colour illustrated monograph explores William Crozier's
whole career, taking in the second half of the twentieth century -
a key period in the development of British and Irish art. The
catalogue is furnished with essays presenting brand new research by
renown art historians and curators, Illuminated by unpublished
sources and personal memoirs. What emerges is a picture of the
continuum that runs through all of Crozier's work, revealing a
fascinating narrative that, far from a story of transformation from
darker, earlier imagery into the apparent hedonism of later
landscapes, is one of continuity of purpose in Crozier's mind-set
that connects 1950s Britain and Ireland with the concerns of the
new millennium. Profoundly affected by post-war existential
philosophy, Crozier consciously allied himself and his work with
contemporary European art throughout the 1950s and 1960s, towards
painters such as Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung and
Nicolas de Stael. The landscape became the source of visceral
paintings: For Crozier, ravaged landscapes symbolised the torment
and fear of the post-war condition at the heart of existentialism.
Only ten years separate these images of traumatized humanity from
the luxuriantly colourful works inspired by the landscape of West
Cork. His early skill as a colourist reaches its zenith in
paintings that capture the essence and appearance of the West Cork
landscape in ways immediately recognisable to the viewer, but they
are also concerned to capture a landscape during a period of great
physical and social change. Crozier believed that when painting the
Irish landscape he must, "Tell the truth. Say it simply."
A distinguished art gallery director, and curator of major
exhibitions by some of the art world's most celebrated names,
Enrique Juncosa is also a much-admired poet in his native Spanish.
Bay of Flags & other poems draws on the two most recent of his
six Spanish publications and introduces English language readers to
what translator Michael Smith in his Introduction calls "a
boundless curiosity about other people and places, an astonishingly
broad interest in most of the major art forms, and an enthusiasm to
experiment that matches the novelty of what he has encountered on
his travels." Formally energetic and singularly engaging, Juncosa's
poetry reveals what the poet himself terms "a certain obsession
with lists and proper names, of people and places"-as well as a
focus on the external world that will hold the reader's attention
throughout even where it refuses linear narrative or tidy
conclusion. "Ultimately," as Michael Smith puts it, "the poems are
celebratory, of the world in all its incomprehensible strangeness
and its beauty." The opportunity to read them now in this
dual-language volume is is itself cause for celebration.
Shortly after the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown, Iran do
Espirito Santo, in Sao Paulo, contacted Enrique Juncosa, in
Mallorca, proposing to collaborate on a book. It so happened that
Juncosa had started some poems in prose related to travels based on
personal memories and imagination, and which referred to a way of
life that was suddenly suspended. He wrote 40 poems, suggesting the
idea of quarantine, encompassing quarantine, encompassed under the
title Pangolin, an animal pointed out as the initial propagator of
the virus. Do Espirito Santo made 40 watercolours, one per poem,
related to the text, although not always in an evident way,
suggesting an inner journey. Floating images in a white space,
abstract and geometric in origin, with the delicacy of oriental
miniatures. Text in English and Spanish.
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