Yesterday, the Cabildo of Tenerife presented the Óscar Domínguez exhibition at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes. Two that intersect, which brings together eighty works by the Tenerife artist, one of the key figures of the surrealist adventure and avant-garde movements of the 20th century. This new exhibition, which offers an itinerary through the painter’s creative universe through his different stages, techniques and styles, opens today, at 7:00 p.m., and can be visited for free until November 24.
Oscar Dominguez. Two that intersect is the seventh exhibition that TEA dedicates to the artist (Tenerife, 1906 – Paris, 1957) since the Cabildo art center opened its doors 16 years ago and it exhibits a large set of paintings by the artist. international -most belonging to the TEA collection- among which four of his most emblematic self-portraits are included, two of them not exhibited in the previous exhibition: Self-portrait (1926), Parisian self-portrait (1928), Suicidal self-portrait (1933) and Self-portrait with a bull’s head (1941).
“It is a very important moment, since we are going to fulfill a vocation on the part of TEA: to always have Domínguez present on its walls,” said the Minister of Culture and Museums of Tenerife, José Carlos Acha, during the presentation of this exhibition, in which most of the works from private collections have been publicly exhibited on very few occasions, as is the case of several paintings from Domínguez’s pre-surrealist period, especially the oil on canvas The Musicians (1928) or the cited Parisian Self-Portrait (1928), dedicated to his friend the poet Domingo López.
The vice president of the Cabildo, Lope Afonso, pointed out that it is “the most important cultural milestone on the Island this year.” “This exhibition is a key step in ensuring the attachment of the figure of Óscar Domínguez to his island and to this space,” he added, while pointing out that with this exhibition TEA joins the events celebrating the centenary of the publication of the first Manifesto of Surrealism, written in Paris in 1924.
Meanwhile, Isidro Hernández, curator of the TEA Collection and curator of Óscar Domínguez. Two that intersect, he explained that “in the first section of the exhibition, several works from the late 1920s are presented, made under the fascination of the young Óscar Domínguez for his host city, Paris, and everything it represented: freedom, bohemian, modernity, love. The second and third sections invite the visitor to take a biographical tour in which some unpublished photographs of the painter are inserted.”
The title of the exhibition, indicated Isidro Hernández, corresponds to the motto chosen by Óscar Domínguez for the poetic notebook The Two Who Cross, published in 1947 by Henri Parisot in the Parisian editions Fontaine. “To a certain extent, it synthesizes the personality of the painter, always close to extreme irony and bohemianism, at the same time fierce and melancholic and dissatisfied in his continuous approach to painting. “A metaphor for the duality of the painter himself or a symbol of the contradiction innate to every human condition, Óscar Domínguez’s painting often seeks opposite elements, as happens in the 1935 painting Le dimanche, which serves as a poster announcing the exhibition,” he explained. he.
