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Infanta Maria Margarita - 1656
Variation on Diego Velázquez, who painted this
Princess for his Master: "King PHILIP VI." in a whole family-scene with
dwarfs and a dog. Until the 80th this work was seen in a very charming
installation, at the "Museo del Prado" in Madrid, all alone in a mysterious
little room and with a mirror on the opposite wall. Today hanging in the
center of a crowded room, the intimity of it is destroyed. Sometimes museum's
staff behave like a bull in a china shop.
To-dream-or-not-to-dream? - this is no incognito for administrators of
surrealist/dada knowledge. It is here where the doors open up to a wide
avenue of probabilities. Following this way, we should be able to step out of
any desperation, because things begin to appear just like they are: without
being violated by erroneous thoughts.
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Infanta Maria Margarita - 2000 Variation by Holger E. Dunckel, who was atracted by the layers of association and involuntary memory anbaded in two works he had known over his entire life. In his childhood he was fascinated by the dwarfs in Velàzquez painting and at the age of nineteen he had a preview during the hanging of Picasso's last show at the Pope's Palace in Avignon. Living in Spain Dunckel had witnessed the artistic apotheosis of both. The artistic surrealist and dada interventions don't only memorize us the perfect instants: THEY ARE CREATING THEM. There can't be any "a priori" methods being able to carry out a project, because this would take us to a cataloguing, and this way discrimination of other methods: the logic is limited by itself.
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 Infanta Maria Margarita - 1957 Variation on Pablo Picasso, who painted his
variations about Velázquez at his villa La Californie in Cannes. It was
perhaps inevitable that at some point in his life, he would be lured into the
labyrinthine depths of the greatest of all spanish paintings. A dialog etween
two painters seperated by three hundred years. Picasso compressed space and
flattened forms, which absorb and recast his predecessor's illusionistic
idiom.
Only by this permanent revaluation, the evolutionary movement can
maintain its essential and so beneficial elasticity for our incorporation in
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