Pierre Alechinsky
Not Far from the Beginning - 1978
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Acrylic on paper laid on canvas
102 x 152 cm (inches: 40¼ x 59¾.)
Signed, titled and dated on reverse
"This is his secret: He will not sacrifice the totality, which surrounds a given object, a place or time. Everything is there. Because if Alechinsky is painting the garden of man, he is not about to allow us to drown comfortably in the liquid idyll of paradise . . . The poisonous and pleasurable gardens of Alechinsky are a reminder that the Golden Age was never lost because it was always contaminated and that the things which would later kill us were already hiding in Paradise. Why than this mad, insistent nostalgia? Alechinsky has no answer, Or rather; he has the supreme answer of the artist: He does not represent the garden, he creates it."
Carlos Fuentes, 1979
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