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- Curated by
- Vicenç Altaió i Glòria Picazo
From Very Far Away by Miguel Egaña
Press release
Exhibition: From Very Far Away by Miguel Egaña
Fundació Joan Miró’s Espai 10, Taste and Differences season
Dates: 6 to 30 May 1986
Opening: Thursday 6 May at 7.30 pm
The sixth exhibition in the Taste and Differences season will open at the Fundació Joan Miró’s Espai 10 on 6 May, organised in collaboration with the art critic Glòria Picazo and the writer Vicenç Altaió.
Miguel Egaña (Paris, 1952) has become one of the most important artists in the field of young French sculpture, which, in line with international interest in object sculpture, favours works that are very similar to the poetic object. After beginning a more conceptual practice by using mail art and photocopying, Egaña turned to object sculpture in 1982, using elements as diverse and yet as simple as a fish tank, a typewriter or a hammock, among others. He is particularly interested in representing natural events with artificial materials that verge on kitsch: light is therefore represented by rays of metal rods and falling water by blue wool.
Miguel Egaña represents an important example of the current trends in French sculpture, a type of sculpture that, unlike English sculpture – which manipulates usually found objects – is much more interested in everyday kitsch objects that we all use, giving them new possible interpretations and new meanings.
Last February, Miguel Egaña presented an exhibition of his work entitled Black Series at the Galerie de Paris, a gallery that has been openly supportive of the new French sculpture.
Barcelona, 24 February 1986
