autorretardo / Guernica
autorretardo (detail)
When I first saw Guernica I saw an art studio. A sculptor lying dead in the rubble, following a bombing raid, still holding his chisel, laying below the sculpture of a horse he had been working only moments before, chisel marks still visible.
Guernica is a depiction of war. So often, in my own creative process, I have felt myself a soldier on both sides of a war. I felt that Picasso was speaking not only about the atrocities of war, but of the atrocities of painting.
I took the composition of Guernica and adapted it to a studio scene of my own, populating the studio with paintings I was working on at the time.
Down the rabbit hole of paintings, paintings inside paintings inside paintings