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EL TESORO DE LA PRINCESA AUSENTE, 2017 PAINTER AND COLLAGE ON PAPER 15.7X11.2 IN. | 40X28,5 CM.
ART AND ARTISTS NO SE QUE, 1992-2011 PAINTER AND COLLAGE ON PAPER 19.2X23.4 IN. | 49X59,5 CM.
NINO, 2012 PAINTER AND COLLAGE ON PAPER 13.7X17.7 IN. | 35X45 CM.

MAQUINA, 2005-2006 PAINTER AND COLLAGE ON PAPER 27.5X19.6 IN. | 70X50 CM.

JUAN CANALS
Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain
https://www.artecanals.com/ | Instagram: canalscarreras/

For Juan Canals Carreras getting results means venturing across a nestled inside another, like a set of boxes; what had been a single drawing
precipice, but to do that he must build a bridge, a path to salvation. yesterday might be part of a different one today, or part of an entirely new
He does this not by constraining the architecture but –in the words painting. And the layers of cardboard, with their cuts and tears, refer back
of Gilles Deleuze – “allowing chaos to determine its own order.” His to that taste for the material that seduces so many painters in this part
craftsmanship is based on holding back nothing that may arise, but not of the world. Canals' painting is always surprising, and this is because it
holding on to everything that does. He selects what works and discards has not been subjected to any tyrannical maxim. It is not conditioned by
what does not. If the more traditional academic methods teach that some proposal that must be fulfilled, nor does it constitute some thesis
composition comes before execution, the exact opposite seems to that must be defended, beyond the pure act of painting, with purity
have occurred in these paintings. Composition is determined in the understood to be a free, selfless act. Juan first lets loose an avalanche
final stages, after covering this area and rearranging that one, or by of impulses on his canvasses and cardboards, then later arranges and
laying on cardboard cutouts taken from other pieces. One painting is balances them. Excerpt. (Angel Alonso: Dynamism and Recycling )

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