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El Pirata (The Pirate)

Author
Óscar Domínguez
Edition
I Exhibition (1973-74)
Year
1952-55
Further information
Loaned by the Viscount of Noailles, returned after the Exhibition.
Material
Iron and canvas

“The Noailles family also contributed with “El Pirata” (“The Pirate”), a large iron drawing integrated with canvas and ropes, to be placed in a large space. In these two works we can appreciate the great inventions of this artist, his fidelity to Surrealism, the application of various techniques, his constant humour and originality. (…) In these works the sense of playing remains constant.”

Westerdahl, E. (1973). La 1ª Exposición Internacional de Escultura en la calle, en Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme, ISSN 1133-8857, Nº. 99. Número dedicado a los parques naturales, 47-50.

“The great interpreter of Surrealism in the Canary Islands, Óscar Domínguez (born in La Laguna in 1906, who committed suicide in Paris on the last day of 1957), as one of his imaginative witticisms full of sparkling defiance. The same playful proclivity was shown in El Pirata (The Pirate), a triangulated figure in iron and canvas infected by Picasso and Chirico.”

Hernández Perera, J. (1996). Dos décadas de Esculturas en la Calle. En A. Carnero, D. Duque, & C. Schwartz, Iª Exposición Internacional de Escultura en La Calle (págs. 25-54). Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Cabildo Insular de Tenerife. Área de Cultura. ISBN: 84-87340-63-6

“The works by Óscar Domínguez, Pirata (The Pirate) and Monumento al Gato (Monument to the Cat) (1952-53) are situated between the playful montage and the surreal distorting imagination of his period in Hyères.”

Pérez Reyes, C. (1996). Reflexión sobre lo visto y lo vivido. En A. Carnero, D. Duque, & C. Schwartz, Iª Exposición Internacional de Escultura en La Calle (págs. 65-76). Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Cabildo Insular de Tenerife. Área de Cultura. ISBN: 84-87340-63-6