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Joseba Eskubi
POÉTICA ANIQUILATORIA
Joseba Eskubi trabaja en la construcción de un espacio escénico, o mejor, de los espacios escénicos, distintos y separados, que son cada uno de sus cuadros. Espacios separados y delimitados en los que la masa de pintura es extendida, girada, amontonada, aplastada hasta
constituirse en atmósfera, en tierra, lugar, en delante y detrás y en masa-figura. No existe, en este trabajo una imagen separable de esa masa orgánica de la pintura, que hace del cuadro un cuerpo.
En la sucesión de lugares de la pintura de Joseba, hubo un día edificios. Edificios o estructuras-edificio, nacidos del entrelazado de líneas y de la delimitación de planos de color, a la vez rígidos y orgánicos. Edificios en mitad de lugares vacíos en los que el viento no soplaba y desde los que, los edificios, parecían mirarnos. También un día quedó fijada, en la pintura de Joseba Eskubi, la línea de tierra. Línea de un horizonte incierto, separando vertical y horizontal. Cielo y tierra que no son sino el vientre de su taller desplegado en cielo y tierra. Ha habido también, en mitad de muchos cuadros, manchas como piedras inmóviles en mitad de un sueño.
Ahora la pintura se densifica en lo que parecen bolsas tensas y sanguíneas, vísceras, muñones, excrementos. Figuras dirigidas a nuestros sentidos. Alrededor aire, suelo, fondo. Encarnaciones gustativas, olfativas y táctiles, referidas a su vez a la futura ausencia de toda posibilidad de sentir. Carne muerta y alimento, como en la historia de la pintura. Es la puesta en escena del encuentro de dos actores antagónicos, plenamente revelados al fundirse en una sola visión. Teatro de la aniquilación de contrarios que es el espacio escénico del barroco, de lo barroco. Zonas de alta densidad en el paisaje de una mesa de disección. Mesa en la que se extienden las figuras de otra aniquilación: la de la suave manipulación de la pintura fundida con la violencia del miedo. Miedo vital e indefinible que atraviesa la obra de Eskubi. Miedo fundador. Miedo desde siempre, pero cada vez con una identidad nueva.
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Una modulación sabiamente controlada de las degradaciones de color y de las sombras proyectadas. Un conocimiento sobre la organización de los volúmenes y cuerpos, necesaria para pintar un espacio tridimensional. “Oficio”. Todos los resortes necesarios para que la cuestión sea cuestión de escenografía. Ofrecer, a nuestra mirada, la pintura en un lugar que permita nombrarla. Llamarla víscera, horizonte, cuerpo, enigma. Nombrarla sin dejar de sentir su sustancia, su densidad, su textura.
Sugerencia de colores sanguíneos, de rosáceos capilares y de violáceos de carne mórbida. Aquí o allí, las raras interferencias de colores vivos o la ausencia de color, desagradan, rechinan. Otras veces, vagos reflejos ocres sugieren la descomposición de un cuerpo que se extiende en el aire. El color, su poder de evocación en la pintura de Joseba Eskubi, completa la visión sugerida por las líneas de contorno de los objetos. Configura en nuestro cerebro la representación de lo mirado. Eskubi induce con el color, información que por evocación, nos lleva mas allá del contenido visible, en el terreno de la vagamente sugerido.
Frente a un hipotético vacío de la figura, bajo las masas de color extendidas, descubrimos en otros trabajos, fotografías de obras de pintores que nos han precedido, siglos atrás enterradas parcialmente. Figuras, imágenes de figuras cubiertas u ocultadas, aplastadas por avalanchas de masas cromáticas. Como si el óleo y el bastidor no bastaran para inscribirse dentro de la Historia de la Pintura, la misma que contiene a Halls y a Mondrian. Como infectando la extremidad del cuerpo de La Pintura que es una tarjeta postal con pintura fresca. Materia que es a su vez la que hace de la imagen un cuerpo y como cuerpo, algo susceptible de ser infectado. En otras obras, raras, en las que se produce efectivamente ese vacío de figura, este encuentra sobre el soporte, la forma de un entresijo de escombros, líneas, planos de color superpuestos, deshilachados. Como si el viento hubiera soplado, esta vez demasiado fuerte y nos dejara frente a los restos de un silo derrumbado y en el que, desolado, faltara alguien.
Podemos por último preguntarnos cuando, en que momento, la acción representada ha tenido lugar. Porque el escenario que esta ante nosotros se nos antoja deshabitado y nos envía hacia nuestra propia ansiedad. Si lo que estamos mirando son restos, es porque forzosamente hemos llegado después de que lo que sucede, haya sucedido. Es decir en un futuro. Futuro desollado, desencarnado. Relación otra vez, con lugares privilegiados del barroco mas allá de las vanidades, lugares que eran la ruina y también la biblioteca. Lugares que situados en el presente, contienen cada uno por igual su parte de memoria y su parte de futuro fundidos, confundidos. Es decir, que el sueño de esa imagen que se nos da, se nos da como un sueño premonitorio y porque es premonitorio, el miedo fundamental, del que hablaba antes vuelve a tomar sólidamente el timón, hasta ser evacuado, extendido, diluido, en la superficie pintada. Una vez tras otra.
Juan Mendizabal
Joseba Eskubi
POETIC OF THE ANNIHILATION
Joseba Eskubi works in the building of a stage space, or better, of the different and separated stage spaces that are each of his paintings. Separated and demarcated spaces, in which the painting mass is spread out, turned, heaped up, crushed and flattened till it becomes and atmosphere in earth, place, in before and behind and in figure-mass. In this work there is not an image that can be separated from that organic mass of painting which turns a painting into a body.
In the succession of places in Joseba’s painting, there were once buildings. Buildings or building-structures, born from the entwining or interweaving of lines and of the delimitation of colour layers, both rigid and organic. Buildings in the middle of empty spaces, in which the wind did not blow and from which the buildings seemed to look at us. Besides, on a certain day the earth line remained fixed for good. A line of an uncertain horizon, separating vertical and horizontal. Heaven and earth, which are not but his workshop’s womb as displayed in heaven and on earth. There had been also, in the middle of many paintings, spots, stains or flecks like still and motionless stones in the middle of a dream.
Now the painting becomes thicker and more solid looking like something seeming tight blood bags, entrails, stumps, excrements. Images addressing our senses. Air, floor, ground surrounding them. Tactile, smelling and tasting embodiments, referring in their turn to the future absence of any possibility of feeling. Dead flesh and food, like in the history of painting. It is the mis-en-scène, the stage, of two antagonistic actors, fully revealed when they blend into only one vision. A theatre of annihilation of contraries that is the baroque stage space, of Baroque as such. High density zones in the scenery of a dissecting table. A table on
which the images of another annihilation have been displayed: that of the soft manipulation of the painting melted with the violence of fear. Indefinable and living, vital, fear going through Eskubi’s work. Foundational fear. Fear coming from ever, but each time with a new identity.
A wisely controlled modulation of colour degrading as well as of the projected shadows. A knowledge about the organization of volumes and bodies, all the more necessary in order to paint a three-dimensional space. “Craft, workmanship”. All the necessary elements so that the question becomes a question of stage scenery. It offers the painting to our eyes in a place that allows the painting to be given a name. To call it entrails, horizon, body, enigma. To call it without feeling its substance, its density, its texture.
A suggestion of blood colours, of capillary pinkish and purplish morbid flesh shades. Here and there, rare interferences of lively colours, or of absence of colour, displease, creak. Some other times, vague ochre coloured glimpses suggest a body’s decomposition spreading in the air. Colour and its evocative power in Joseba Eskubi’s painting completes the view suggested by the objects’ outlines. It shapes in our brains the representation of what has been seen. By means of colour, Eskubi let us absorb some sort of information that, by evocation, brings us, beyond the visible contents, into the field of the vaguely suggested.
Against a hypothetical figure emptiness, below the spread out colour masses, we discover in other works, photographs of partially buried works by other painters of centuries ago. Figures, images of covered or hidden figures, crushed under avalanches of chromatic masses. As if painting oil and stretcher frame were not enough to take and fill someone’s place in the History of Painting, the same one that contains Halls and Mondrian. As if it were infecting the extremity of The Painting’s body that is a post card with fresh painting. Matter, which in turn is what makes a body out of image and like a body open to being infected. In other works, rare ones, in which that figure emptiness occurs effectively, this emptiness finds on its support the form of a mesentery of rubble, lines and frayed, superimposed colour levels. As if the wind had blown, this time too strongly, and had left us in front of the remainders of a hurled down, collapsed silo, in which some grieving person was felt missing.
Finally, we can ask our selves, when, in which moment, took place the represented event. Because the stage in front of us seems to be uninhabited and send us towards our own anxiety. If what we are looking at is the debris, it is because we have necessarily arrived after the happening of what happened, i.e. in a future. In a skinned, flayed, fleshless bony future (deprived of its flesh). Once again, some sort of relationship with privileged baroque places, beyond vanities, places that were ruins and also the library. Places that set in present time hold each one likewise their part of memory and their part of future melted and cast together (fundidos) as well as mixed up (confundidos). I.e. the dream of this image as given to us, is given as a premonitory dream, and being some sort of foreboding, the fundamental fear of which I have talked before takes the rudder helm fast in its hands again, till it is evacuated, thinned down and spread out over the painted surface. Once and again.
(Translated by Joseba Borja)
Juan Mendizabal
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patte-folle says:
"Les images de Joseba Eskubi sont simplement : étranges ; comme le rêve d'un autre. Chaque nuit nous voyons de ces formes dont on ne sait pas ce qu'elles sont. Elles ont envie de crier leur nom et pas un son ne sort, mais nous nous savons ce qu'elles veulent dire, elles sont nôtres. Le rêve d'un autre, nous ne savons pas. On sent l'huile, la photo, du traitement, mais pas de plan, si bien qu'il ne reste qu’une impression : on ne sait pas ce que c’est. Cette insomnie du peintre me plait, mais me gêne, je lui souhaite de parfois dormir, de rêver des chimères dont le vague est volupté."
13th October, 2011
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nkimadams says:
"A surreal genius. A master painter and artist. Some of his work may be difficult to take, but it is all wonderful nevertheless. Works with real power and sometimes with a terrifying presence."
24th May, 2010
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Fatma S says:
"inspiring work !
very intriguing
takes abstract landscape painting into a whole new level!"1st June, 2009
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