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 Rai Escalé's Profile |
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THE WOUND THAT NEVER HEALS |
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| Age: | 69 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | Barhellona, |
| Country: |  Burundi |
| Height: | 7' 3" |
| Zodiac: |  Leo (Jul 23 - Aug 22) |
| Last Login: | Jun 22, 2008 (60 days back) |
About Me |
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Upcoming Solo Show in Barcelona. Opening April 30th and running till May 31th. Click below to my web site to see tons of NEW WORK |
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My Interests |
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| RAI ESCALÉ'S RECENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS: December'07: Scope, Miami(USA),with Iguapop Gallery January'08: 'Mona Lisa Group Show', Strychnin Gallery, Berlin (Germany), opening 25th!! February'o8: ’Den of Iniquity’Group Show, The Rogue’s Gallery, Belfast,Northen Ireland, UK. May'08: Iguapop Gallery, Big Solo Show, Barcelona(Spain) May'08: 2nd Swab Art Fair, Barcelona (with Iguapop Gallery) From 15th to 18th. June'08: Ping Pong Gallery, 'Iguapop plays PingPong'group show, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). July'08: Heliumcowboy Artspace, 5th anniversary group show. Hamburg (Germany). December'08: BAC'08, CCCB, Barcelona. ARTIST STATEMENT (Read it if u can!!!) Lately i've been discovering my hability to live inside the surrealistic game of being able to permanently seek and find (and then put in paper) images laying hidden under other images. Random images among the millions that we come across every day. So I always paint on printed papers no matter very much where they come from...no white canvas anymore in my life. And i do it through rough paint, nearly no scissors and any computers... But even if not gluing anything, technically they still call it collage...So PAINT-COLLAGE IMAGES is what I do (?) If there's anyone still following after that messy explanation of what I do for living. Or if you let me say it in traditional spanish: Me gustan las mujeres, me gusta el vino... And now some quotes that made me understad how I relate to painting: (with a little help of sister raya) To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. ... What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. Pablete Picasso, La Bestia Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things..." Edgar Degas I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black...." Auguste Renoir Art is not a mirror to reflect the world in, but a hammer with which to shape it. Vladimir Mayakovsky. The price of collaboration in art is — as in the concentration camps — excremental suffocation. It is not by submission, coolness, apathy, boredom that great art is created—no matter what the cynics tell us. The secret ingredient is what is most difficult to learn: courage. Boris Lurie. Il faut être toujours ivre. Tout est là : c'est l'unique question. Pour ne pas sentir l'horrible fardeau du Temps qui brise vos épaules et vous penche vers la terre, il faut vous enivrer sans trêve. Mais de quoi? De vin, de poésie, ou de vertu, à votre guise. Mais enivrez-vous. Et si quelquefois, sur les marches d'un palais, sur l'herbe verte d'un fossé, dans la solitude morne de votre chambre, vous vous réveillez, l'ivresse déjà diminuée ou disparue, demandez au vent, à la vague, à l'étoile, à l'oiseau, à l'horloge, à tout ce qui fuit, à tout ce qui gémit, à tout ce qui roule, à tout ce qui chante, à tout ce qui parle, demandez quelle heure il est; et le vent, la vague, l'étoile, l'oiseau, l'horloge, vous répondront: "Il est l'heure de s'enivrer! Pour n'être pas les esclaves martyrisés du Temps, enivrez-vous; enivrez-vous sans cesse! De vin, de poésie ou de vertu, à votre guise." .... and in english... One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time's horrible burden one which breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without cease. But with what? With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk. And if, at some time, on steps of a palace, in the green grass of a ditch, in the bleak solitude of your room, you are waking and the drunkenness has already abated, ask the wind, the wave, the stars, the clock, all that which flees, all that which groans, all that which rolls, all that which sings, all that which speaks, ask them, what time it is; and the wind, the wave, the stars, the birds, and the clock, they will all reply: "It is time to get drunk! So that you may not be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk, get drunk, and never pause for rest! With wine, poetry, or virtue, as you choose!" Charles Baudelaire. In Primal Therapy, and in any kind of awareness, you might have a person so emotionally engaged in something positive that when they leave the experience, they're emptied. That's exactly what should happen, in the best possible sense. Joel Peter Witken Si las formas diseñadas por el pintor en el cuadro no tuvieran repercusión, si, por ejemplo, mandÃbulas con horribles dientes no asomaran del cráneo de Picasso para aterrorizar a quienes tienen la impudicia de pensar cosas respetables, entonces la pintura no servirÃa sino para evitar la rabia en la gente, como hacen los bares y el cine americano. Georges Bataille, "The Lugubrious Game" 1929 C'est pas du vomi, c'est de la peinture organique ! Anonim For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. Friedrich Nietzsche. An artist does not render nature, he renders visible. He sees what others do not see, and by seeing and rendering on canvas, paper, whatever makes his vision visible to others (if they are able to see). Paul Klee. Me acostumbré a la alucinación simple:veÃa sin la menor vacilación una mezquita en vez de una fábrica, calesas por los caminos del cielo, un salón al fondo de un lago; los monstruos, los misterios, un tÃtulo de vodevil alzaban espantajos ante mÃ. Arthur Rimbaud. Why, after the great artists, do people ever try to do anything again? Only because, from generation to generation, through what great artists have done, the instincts change. And, as the instincts change, so there comes a renewal of the feeling of how can I remake this thing once again more clearly, more exactly, more violently. You see, I relieve that art is recording. Francis Bacon (my dad!). And yet, word is not the life. People talk just to attack something or to defend themselves. But the one who refuses talking... How secretful a picture is... A gleam... that cannot be explained. The Overpainted Writing by Bela Bacso Modificaciones, transformaciones, superposiciones, pinturas sobre pinturas...en realidad no se trata solamente de una adición fantasmagórica de nuevos elementos sobre una base preexistente, sino del empleo de esta imagen como fuente de sugerencia, como un excitante transformador de un trastrueque conceptual y, también, como una base de imagen-color ya realizada que condiciona el resultado.Rabia infantil, impulso de metamorfosis,deseo de violentar la belleza establecida mediante la pluma o el pincel iconoclasta. Antonio Saura (the great!).Superposiciones. The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. 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I'd like to meet:DEAR FRIENDS: I truly appreciate your comments and support, and it makes me happy to read them and feel it, but lately I've been overwhelmed by work and travels and it's been impossible to make more than the three minutes morning check around this house...no offence if I stay mute or takes me decades to answer. For proper communications please email me (rai-at-raiescale.info) I also appreciate people posting pics and pics very very much, but please post them with NO SIZE SCRIPTS IN THE HTML CODE, NO MATTER HOW BIG YOU WANT TO POST or they will look really tiny after visitinnnng my silly automatic size reductor!! AND COME BACK SOON!!! |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | In a Relationship |
| Hometown: | Barcelona shitty |
| Religion: | Scientologist |
| Occupation: | fast painter |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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Rai Escalé video interview (catalan) |
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| http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=r2QCHSgT4Po
Here you can see how the exhibition running now in Barcelona looks like.And also me trying to explain some silly thoughts in catalan (wow)Love,TVRai... Posted by Rai Escalé on Tue, 06 May 2008 09:45:00 PST |
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New Web Launched |
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| Tons of new work in the New Web I just launched.Still some small bugs, thou. Tell me what you think about!!!... Posted by Rai Escalé on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:39:00 PST |
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Monoprints |
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| While putting everithing together for the next solo show in Barcelona, I’m very excited at the mo with a new collaboration i have started... I’m doing monoprints again, ages after, with th... Posted by Rai Escalé on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:48:00 PST |
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Last works at last |
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| A bit messed and mixed, but it was a long time i didn't post... You can see it still and bigger in my other blog, as always!!All the best my friends!!!!... Posted by Rai Escalé on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:55:00 PST |
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Miroir Noir Project |
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| Hi friends,We´ve just launched our new MySpace profile Miroir Noir, to show the project we´re running with Milos Koptak. It shows some of what we did in April in Barcelona and what we did this last Ju... Posted by Rai Escalé on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:38:00 PST |
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Latest Editorial Commissions |
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| A couple editorial commissions i did this month for two different catalan magazines.... Posted by Rai Escalé on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:23:00 PST |
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Some Random New Work |
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| Hello friends,i´ve been missing from here a lot, but i'm painting painting painting, so no offence.¡Saludos a mis viejos amigos!!You can see images still and bigger in my other blog, as always!
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NY Arts Magazine Review (!!) |
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Posted by Rai Escalé on Mon, 21 May 2007 05:37:00 PST |
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Benzina Magazine |
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| Started some collab with the best Catalan Magazine, Benzina. After a first Portfolio/Article there, now i'll begin a monthly illustration for the 'Literary Trips', starting in the 'Sacher Hotel' in Vi... Posted by Rai Escalé on Mon, 21 May 2007 06:36:00 PST |
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Mirroir Noir Project |
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| See some of the things we've been doin with Mios Koptak, and learn more at my other blog...... Posted by Rai Escalé on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:48:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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The Carny Gallery, Miroir Noir, milos, irene, papano, ACRYMX - TWIGX, Sergio Mora, Somnika, elnos and the bon bon, Beatrize, HIerophantic HArlequinesque HUman, Michelle Marsh, Pitu, Jan, Honey, MELTOSH, giuliano, CHA, {marlene d}, rosie, ferry rojkowski, ElArteDelManuZ, jose luis, corteza de cerdo, VIOLETA GALERA, hallow never, rallito-x, Juan, Pad, paulina, AMOR VINCIT OMNIA, MarÃa, smiTTen307, Federica Gif, Lazy Records, Silvina, **Washed Away**, TOMOKO UMEMOTO, bennet pimpinella, laura cherre, BE, urbain, KARL
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