{"id":3296,"date":"2019-10-09T16:18:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galerie-kuchling.de\/?page_id=3296"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T13:25:57","slug":"eduard-bigas-time-and-the-others-27-september-25-oktober-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/galerie-kuchling.de\/en\/ausstellungen\/bisherige-ausstellungen\/eduard-bigas-time-and-the-others-27-september-25-oktober-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduard Bigas &#8211; Time and the Others (27th September &#8211; 25th October 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Eduard Bigas &#8211; Time and the Others<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">27th September &#8211; 25th October 2019<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7UrR0fAJUys\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A certain morning, when waking up, I slowly opened my eyes welcoming the light that poured in. I then proceeded to look around the room \u2015 it was a familiar room, I had missed it, so, aware of my absence, I instinctively looked for my plants. Of course, the first thing that I see every morning are my plants, besides, they are young, still developing and I worry about them. As I inspect carefully on the only living beings in my room besides me, I remember Bigas\u2019s paintings. I remember the leaves, dark green and purple drooping like hot wax; the stems, entwined, some sprouting upwards; the flowers, with their complex reproductive systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then I notice how the light hits them, a light that cuts through but also bounces back, how they seem to vibrate, germinate with the presence of the light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an inescapable feeling, that of standing in the presence of nature. Imagine a luxurious forest, steaming with life, vegetation, animals. We cannot but feel pleasure and wonder, and also a certain sense of security. I wonder&#8230; how did Bigas\u2019s paintings provoke such feelings in me? I thought, were they to be the last memory of the world, would they be representative of its beauty?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eduard Bigas is, with weight and measure, methodical. He has, at the same time the wild spirit of a perpetual student, always eager to learn, to evolve. This means that he will obsess over his craft, the control of the light and the placement of the pigments. If from a distance Bigas\u2019s paintings seem peaceful, and they do perform, in a way, as an exercise for meditation, as one moves closer, the detailed organic elements and swooshes of colour reveal a tiny biosphere incubating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bigas told me many times that his only deep, deep desire is that people find his paintings \u201cbeautiful, nothing more\u201d, like a true romantic, \u201ceverything is invented&#8221; he says. There is no fear in Eduard\u2019s perceptive eyes. \u201cThere are no answers. They don\u2019t matter.\u201d We can pose questions, but beauty cannot truly be explained. It must be experienced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like vitrines, aquariums or terrariums, the tiny ecosystems are arranged with the thoughtfulness and precision of a Japanese garden. It rests upon us to observe and appreciate. I did not meet Eduard Bigas before he travelled to Japan, but I know that being there has had a great impact on him. Like the Japanese, he draws down on the material in hopes to dominate and bare it justice. Even the textures of the background follow a careful syncopated and meditative rhythm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They also remind me of the naturalist movement, the appreciation of nature above all things, the depiction of a physical environment, and trying to translate it into the canvas in the treatment of form, colour, space, as it might appear in nature. The pigments themselves, being preferentially derived from natural minerals, are the enactment of nature itself, and therefore can be drawn in any shape or form and will always be, well, natural.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In \u2018Time and the Others\u2019 Bigas orchestrates three movements, three series, three different moments in time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In \u2018Geometry of Time\u2019, the new \u201ccrazy\u201d ideas and experiments, there is precision and control. The geometries determine the limits in which the colours are existing. Contained, like a closed circuit, from which they cannot escape.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In turn, \u2018Time and the Others\u2019 seizes the opportunity to let the organic shapes drift freely, and finally in \u2018Transfigurative Time\u2019 \u2013 Bigas applies the same rich, sometimes even more intricate elements, but instead of letting them live harmoniously, the reality is bluntly cut obliterating entire sections of the canvas with flat light colours. These trespass as a suggestion of a missing memory, as if something needs to remain hidden, forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bigas manipulates the measure of time to adapt it to his comprehension. In an attempt to create and capture the beauty in its purest form, his compositions seem to bend, stretch and transfigure pigments and shapes according to Bigas&#8217;s will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Text: C. Palma<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><div id=\"envira-gallery-wrap-3300\" class=\"envira-gallery-wrap envira-gallery-theme-base envira-lightbox-theme-base\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><div data-row-height=\"150\" data-gallery-theme=\"normal\" id=\"envira-gallery-3300\" class=\"envira-gallery-public envira-gallery-justified-public envira-gallery-0-columns envira-clear enviratope envira-gallery-css-animations\" data-envira-columns=\"0\"><div id=\"envira-gallery-item-3301\" class=\"envira-gallery-item enviratope-item envira-gallery-item-1 envira-lazy-load\" style=\"padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 5px;\"  itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"envira-gallery-item-inner\"><div class=\"envira-gallery-position-overlay  envira-gallery-top-left\"><\/div><div class=\"envira-gallery-position-overlay  envira-gallery-top-right\"><\/div><div class=\"envira-gallery-position-overlay  envira-gallery-bottom-left\"><\/div><div class=\"envira-gallery-position-overlay  envira-gallery-bottom-right\"><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/galerie-kuchling.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/\u201cCad\u00e1ver-Exquisito\u201d-2019-80x80cm-Oil-on-canvas.jpg\" class=\"envira-gallery-3300 envira-gallery-link\" rel=\"enviragallery3300\" title=\"Eduard Bigas - Time and the Others (Photo: Eduard Bigas)\" data-envira-caption=\"Eduard Bigas - Time and the Others (Photo: Eduard Bigas)\" data-envira-retina=\"\" data-thumbnail=\"\"  itemprop=\"contentUrl\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"envira-gallery-image-3301\" class=\"envira-gallery-image envira-gallery-image-1 envira-normal envira-lazy\" data-envira-index=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/galerie-kuchling.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/\u201cCad\u00e1ver-Exquisito\u201d-2019-80x80cm-Oil-on-canvas-958x964.jpg\" data-envira-src=\"https:\/\/galerie-kuchling.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/\u201cCad\u00e1ver-Exquisito\u201d-2019-80x80cm-Oil-on-canvas-958x964.jpg\" data-envira-gallery-id=\"3300\" data-envira-item-id=\"3301\" data-envira-caption=\"Eduard Bigas - Time and the Others (Photo: Eduard Bigas)\" alt=\"\" title=\"Eduard Bigas - Time and the Others (Photo: Eduard Bigas)\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" data-envira-srcset=\"https:\/\/galerie-kuchling.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/\u201cCad\u00e1ver-Exquisito\u201d-2019-80x80cm-Oil-on-canvas-958x964.jpg 400w,https:\/\/galerie-kuchling.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/\u201cCad\u00e1ver-Exquisito\u201d-2019-80x80cm-Oil-on-canvas-958x964.jpg 2x\" data-envira-width=\"298\" data-envira-height=\"300\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP\/\/\/\/\/\/\/yH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-safe-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP\/\/\/\/\/\/\/yH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div id=\"envira-gallery-item-3302\" class=\"envira-gallery-item enviratope-item envira-gallery-item-2 envira-lazy-load\" style=\"padding-left: 5px; 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Time and the Others 27th September &#8211; 25th October 2019 &nbsp; &nbsp; A certain morning, when waking up, I slowly opened my eyes welcoming the light that poured in. I then proceeded to look around the room \u2015 it was a familiar room, I had missed it, so, aware of my absence, I instinctively looked for my plants. Of course, the first thing that I see every morning are my plants, besides, they are young, still developing and I worry about them. As I inspect carefully on the only living beings in my room besides me, I remember Bigas\u2019s paintings. I remember the leaves, dark green and purple drooping like hot wax; the stems, entwined, some sprouting upwards; the flowers, with their complex reproductive systems. Then I notice how the light hits them, a light that cuts through but also bounces back, how they seem to vibrate, germinate with the presence of the light. It is an inescapable feeling, that of standing in the presence of nature. Imagine a luxurious forest, steaming with life, vegetation, animals. We cannot but feel pleasure and wonder, and also a certain sense of security. I wonder&#8230; how did Bigas\u2019s paintings provoke such feelings in me? I thought, were they to be the last memory of the world, would they be representative of its beauty? Eduard Bigas is, with weight and measure, methodical. He has, at the same time the wild spirit of a perpetual student, always eager to learn, to evolve. This means that he will obsess over his craft, the control of the light and the placement of the pigments. If from a distance Bigas\u2019s paintings seem peaceful, and they do perform, in a way, as an exercise for meditation, as one moves closer, the detailed organic elements and swooshes of colour reveal a tiny biosphere incubating.\u00a0 Bigas told me many times that his only deep, deep desire is that people find his paintings \u201cbeautiful, nothing more\u201d, like a true romantic, \u201ceverything is invented&#8221; he says. There is no fear in Eduard\u2019s perceptive eyes. \u201cThere are no answers. They don\u2019t matter.\u201d We can pose questions, but beauty cannot truly be explained. It must be experienced. Like vitrines, aquariums or terrariums, the tiny ecosystems are arranged with the thoughtfulness and precision of a Japanese garden. It rests upon us to observe and appreciate. I did not meet Eduard Bigas before he travelled to Japan, but I know that being there has had a great impact on him. Like the Japanese, he draws down on the material in hopes to dominate and bare it justice. Even the textures of the background follow a careful syncopated and meditative rhythm.\u00a0 They also remind me of the naturalist movement, the appreciation of nature above all things, the depiction of a physical environment, and trying to translate it into the canvas in the treatment of form, colour, space, as it might appear in nature. The pigments themselves, being preferentially derived from natural minerals, are the enactment of nature itself, and therefore can be drawn in any shape or form and will always be, well, natural. 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