Portraits of The-Non-Existent-Bird - MARIO MURUA.

From 10 to 12 May 2020 - Museum. Institut du monde arabe.

  • Mario Murua, Portrait de l’Oiseau ... 1, 2004

    Portrait de l'Oiseau-Qui-N'Existe-Pas 1, 2004. Acrylic on paper, 57 x 38 cm. © Mario Murua. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • Murua, Portrait of The-Non-Existent-Bird.

    Portrait of The-Non-Existent-Bird, 2005. Book-Bird, painted by the artist. Closed, 66 x 46 x 2 cm. Open, 120 x 100 x 46 cm. © Mario Murua. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • Mario MURUA, Book 3, Portrait of The-Non-Existent-Bird.

    Portrait of The-Non-Existent-Bird, 2005. Artist book, totally painted by the artist, to be suspended and open as a bird, 65 x 60 x 121 cm. Donation Claude & France Lemand 2018. Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. © Mario Murua and The Estate of Claude Aveline.

  • Mario MURUA, Portrait of The Non-Existent-Bird 3.

    Portrait of The Non-Existent-Bird 3, 2004. Acrylic and oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 56 x 38 cm. Donation Claude & France Lemand 2018. Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. © Mario Murua.

  • Mario MURUA, Book 4, Portrait of The-Non-Existent-Bird.

    Portrait of The-Non-Existent-Bird, 2005. Artist book, totally painted by the artist, open suspended, 274 x 62 cm. Donation Claude & France Lemand 2018. Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. © Mario Murua and The Estate of Claude Aveline.

PORTRAITS OF THE-NON-EXISTENT-BIRD - MARIO MURUA.
Claude Lemand.

Surrealist magic and sen­sa­tion­alist visions nur­ture Mario Murua’s œuvre, which flour­ished on the French scene of the 1980s. His trip to the Amazon was a source of inspi­ra­tion for his vast paint­ings in which the forest stands out in all its splen­dour and power. Being an envi­ron­men­talist, he painted a large com­po­si­tion to pay tribute to Chico Mendes, an activist of the envi­ron­mental move­ment who was mur­dered.

Murua’s uni­verse is immersed in a mys­tical atmo­sphere. Fairy-tale crea­tures live in it whilst sym­bols bor­rowed from ancient South American cul­tures also fea­ture in it. It is a world that strives for a pri­mary humanity and for a flaw­less mag­ical beauty. Since Chile has once again become a demo­cratic nation, Murua travels back and forth between Paris and Valparaiso.

The Birds of Mario Murua.

In 1995, Mario Murua was cap­ti­vated by Claude Aveline’s poem and pro­duced hun­dred Portraits art­works on paper, until 2019:

- Bird-books. Hanging and open, Murua’s big books unfold them­selves into birds flying, the painted sheets of paper trans­form them­selves into mul­ti­coloured wings, head and tail, recalling the birds of par­adise from Latin America and from the artist’s sur­re­alist and exu­berant imag­i­na­tion.

- His Portraits of The-Non-Existent-Bird painted on paper are cosmic, aquatic-aerial beings bearing mul­tiple wings and ten­ta­cles… They are immersed in an orig­inal and side­real magma-color.

Copyright © Galerie Claude Lemand 2012.

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