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The painter´s relationship with the studio has been the subject of many masterpieces. Acting as a ‘portrait’ of their world, the studio has served as a metaphor or allegory at the very heart of artistic intention and intimacy.
For centuries artists have shared a common consideration: the necessity for a sanctuary in which their creativity can find expression. The genius and the not so genius, all artists need a space, a studio. That somewhere takes on a temple-like importance, becoming a world into which one hesitates to invite visitors in case the atmosphere is broken. In this space is the debris, the flotsam or jetsam of leads, the discarded efforts, the false starts, that all provide the comforting backdrop to the uncertainty and speculative intuition that might one day produce an idea, a promising start, a surprise, or even, Art.
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Photography by proyectocitron
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Some of the greatest works in the history of art have revolved around the studio. I am thinking of Vermeer´s iconic The Art of Painting, sometimes known as An Artist in his Studio, Matisse´s Red Studio or indeed Velázquez´s Las Meninas. They are examples of works into which the artist has poured every grain of a lifetime of personal evolution as if it were the last word.
Each of these studios have generated a geology. Strata of paint building up on floors, walls and furnishing, worn out brushes that never get thrown away, the nails in the walls just where you need them, all witnesses to the hours spent working. Much of the paraphernalia I have carried along with me, even from London to Madrid, from place to place. Chairs, plan chests, buckets, ladders, it’s hard to throw away these old friends. It’s almost as though these studios are all the same studio.
SIMON EDMONDSON, 2022
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The Studios
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