Alfonso Palacio, director of the Museum, described the day as “very happy” for exhibiting Sanjurjo’s work after two previous experiences in 1986 and 2002, plus the thirteen paintings and other works that are in deposit and in property. With the exhibition open yesterday, he advanced, a new program of exhibitions dedicated to consolidated contemporary artists begins. A big start “with the most important living Asturian artist, the dean. I thank Bernardo for his affection for the Museum, his dedication for months, modulating and deepening the exhibition with the curator Óscar Alonso ”. The writer Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, who participates in the catalog extolling Sanjurjo’s “capital art”; Manuel Fernández, its designer, and Ricardo Villoria, author of the exhibition video, were with the teacher along with three devotees of Sanjurjo’s work, such as Antón García, director of Language Policy, and José Luis Costillas, Councilor for Culture in the Oviedo City Council, which reiterated its commitment to the cultural mile of museums.
The curator of the exhibition, Oscar Alonso Medina, acted as a guide after defining his participation as “exciting work”. He rated Sanjurjo as an artist “Remarkable in Asturian and national plastic artsl. Never have our lines of life been crossed so intensely as now ”. And from that intensity comes an approach to an abstract work “in very complicated times. A great time of silence from which perhaps the work has benefited ”. The model thus approaches the artist’s style: “Silence, recollection, being alone with the work.”
2 It is not usual to find a painter like Sanjurjo who, at 82 years of age, “lives such a vivid creative moment, without a doubt one of his best moments”.
It is not usual to find a painter like Sanjurjo (Barres, 1940) who, at 82 years of age, “lives such a vivid creative moment, without a doubt one of his best moments”. The exhibition, therefore, gives spatial prominence to the recent work, “not because of pressures or whims but because it brings together the interests that Bernardo has approached in half a century of work.” The perimeter is therefore open to the evocation of older works with the most current, without chronological order, with crosses and jumps in time that provide a freedom in accordance with the personality of Sanjurjo. A dazzling zigzag. Alonso, overwhelmed by “the human level” of the artist, led those present through an artistic universe of spots that speak for themselves, memories of mysteries finally solved in the trunks of the Castropol estuary that he saw as a child, areas of sober color “Almost funerary” and other more lively and brilliant. Crossed glances, contrasts, variations, sequences of all kinds and fascination. There are 39 works that, according to the curator, allow playing in search of the intended sensation of light and that the presence of the body is perceived. He invited people to come closer and move away from the paintings: letting Bernardo Sanjurjo speak with them.
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