HE artist Pierre d’Argyll (Paris, 1961) pays homage to Picasso in the exhibition. “Art with Neurons”, about a version guernica have the same dimensions, split into pieces, and lodged in Picasso’s brain. The sample can be seen in the hall of La Lonja in Alicante until 29 October.
“Art with Neurons” exhibition organized by Alicante Town Hall It brings together 24 works that coincide with the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death. titled Guernica Memorial: for peace It has the same dimensions as Picasso’s monumental canvas, namely 3.49 x 7.77 meters.
Pierre d’Argyll not only pays homage to “Guernica”, which is imprisoned in the brain of the Malaga artist, but also recreates it in his works. other iconographic elements One of the most relevant and influential painters of the 20th century. Paris and New York, The exhibition, inaugurated by the Cultural Council, includes the two main cities in Picasso’s vital itinerary. Nayma Beljilali.
Member of the Cultural Council, among the many temptations of “Art with Neurons”, said that “Pierre d’Argyll’s artistic skills unravel the structures of the human brain in relation to the mechanisms of plastic creation“. In his opinion, it is “a point of view or an unusual point of view, and therefore particularly interesting, in the exhibits we can visit”.
In Picasso’s head
As part of his interest in examining the relationship between art and the brain, D’Argyll devoted himself to Picasso and particularly to Picasso. Visualize “Guernica” in the brain of the Malaga painter. Just as Picasso reviews the work of countless masters of the past, such as his great series from the 1950s to the 1970s, other later artists discover ways of doing things and their achievements. The strange thing about D’Argyll is that he resorted to neuroaesthetics. as a way for the artist to immerse himself in self-knowledge and artistic creation.
Pierre d’Argyll’s admiration for Picasso was evident. In his 2018 series dedicated to the Malaga painter, Series of creations focused on the representation of an isolated brain. Thinking of Guernica is a proclaimed tribute to the large canvas, and as such the gigantic brain that covers the surface of d’Argyll’s work contains all the characters in Picasso’s oil painting: Bull and horse, mother with dead child or screaming woman with arms raised.