WORKS BY Leopoldo Irriguible

Leopoldo Irriguible

Irriguible paints the ideas; he paints the idea where the opposites converge, where the oppositions of substance and form, chaos and order, painting and drawing, movement and stability, harmonize their differences and share a place, real and ideal, on the surface of the material and the imagination of who looks at them. That place where the desire to command the chaos and disturb the order concur in the perfect space of simultaneity.

Life

Leopoldo Irriguible was born in Zaragoza in 1946, where he has lived until 1970. After some early figurative works, in the 1960s his art evolves towards abstraction, influenced by pop art. Since 1971, he developes his own very personal style characterized by the geometrical structures. In 1974 he moves to the island of Ibiza,in Spain, where he lives until 2007. In this period, he creates his first artistic productions, sometimes outdoors on beaches and streets. Granted by March Foundation, he lived in Paris in the late seventies. Throughout his career he has made over 130 exhibitions in Spain, USA, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Australia and Thailand.

Work

"Irriguible paints the ideas; he paints the idea where the opposites converge, where the oppositions of substance and form, chaos and order, painting and drawing, movement and stability, harmonize their differences and share a place, real and ideal, on the surface of the material and the imagination of who looks at them. That place where the desire to command the chaos and disturb the order concur in the perfect space of simultaneity."

Antonio Marí (from the introduction to the catalogue Irriguible. The geometry of chaos, 1993).

Funeral art

In the book "The disadvantage of being born", E. Cioran, with obvious irony, de-dramatizes death (accompanied by sad and painful events) so long as it is the irrefutable consequence of birth. The claim of Ortega y Gasset (a century ago) "I am myself and my circumstances" evidences that a person is not an entity in itself. And in front of the event of death is the same. The disappearance of a human being involves leaving these "circumstances": the reason of death, but above all, relatives, friends, home, books, dozens of objects that were all part of our lives. Almost all that remains. Whatever religion we profess, including agnosticism, death is the emptiness and silence. Personally, I have chosen in my will cremation because I believe that in my ashes, something eternal, it will remain part of me and the context and how my life evolved. I do not know why, but my desire is to be cremated seven days after my death. After that point in time, I am totally sure that my loved ones will choose the right fate for my ashes.

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