Analysis of the art of Pablo Palazuelo

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Geologic form un-earthed: "Seeing through" the art of Pablo Palazuelo

"Science and art are two 'di-fferent' ways of getting to know the world,

ways which-from a shared origin-evolved separately. [...] The two

'di-fferent' conceptions as well as the corresponding attitudes and

activities reveal their reciprocal 'in/cidence' (the result of their common

origin) when they are studied in depth and 'without pre/judice.'"

--Pablo Palazuelo, (Vision-Time essay, Reina Sofía, 259)

Today science and art reflect two different ways of knowing the world. As a scientist, the geologist gets to know the world empirically, through the visual perception of nature's explicit geologic forms. The artist, on the other hand, gets to know the world through intuition, a prescient feeling that reveals the implicit nature of form itself. The art of contemporary Spanish painter Pablo Palazuelo provides a vehicle through which the geologist can know natural form by experiencing its misterium conjunctionis of complementary "desires", where arbitrary distinctions between science and art disappear.

Seeing through Palazuelo's art gives the geologist an insight into the way in which nature constitutes itself, an insight that completely reorients and clarifies the geologist's way of thinking. This fresh new perspective opens the window of conscious perception by awakening the scientist's dormant sensibilities. Geologic form was unearthed before me in this manner several years ago during a visit to the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español in Cuenca, Spain. The Lunariae series of Pablo Palazuelo caught my eye. At first glance I saw a brittle fracture system, not unlike ones I had mapped in a surface outcropping of rock or in an u...

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...uries ago were forgotten and foresees those not yet born" (Energy, Matter and Form essay, Soledad Lorenzo, 9).

Palazuelo's presentient art informs the vision of the perceptive scientist. The geologic form, unearthed by the geoscientist, informs the images of the artist. In this sense, through their open dialog, the conceptions, attitudes and activities of science and art do indeed reflect their "reciprocal in/cidence."

"The image is the experience itself."

--Pablo Palazuelo (El cuerpo geómetra essay, Theo, 2)

Works CiteD:

Palazuelo. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 1995.

Palazuelo. Pinturas, esculturas y gouaches, Galería Theo, Madrid, 1985.

Palazuelo. Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, 1997.

Palazuelo, Pablo, and Kevin Power. Visión y Geometría: Una Conversación con Kevin

Power. Granada: Deputación Provincial de Granada, 1995.

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