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Jaume Carbonell in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

CaixaForum Barcelona exhibits until the 9th of September Jaume Carbonell 1942 – 2010 Retrospective, which gathers the work of the Catalan painter who defined himself as figurative “because the images are inside the world that surrounds me”. The exhibition is a route to the work of the Catalan painter who reflected the self and Mediterranean culture, both in the domain of the landscape´s own colours and luminosity, as in the freshness of the themes that will identify him with the iconography of this Spanish region. Jaume Carbonell was born in Barcelona in 1942. He was a painter, draftsman, engraver and he made interesting works enameled in glass and painting on clay. Creative from a young age, he studied in the Massanas Sumptuary arts Conservatory and in the Book art Conservatory and he later travelled to Italy to get to know the great Renaissance painters, those who had been the focus of his admiration from an early age. His first exhibition was in the Ateneu Barcelonès in 1966 and, later, they were followed by exhibitions in galleries in Madrid, Valencia, Zaragoza, Toulouse and London, among other cities in Europe where he marvelled the public with landscapes made in a very particular painting style of lightly texturized paintings. It´s interesting to observe the work of Carbonell and his different styles that are included in the pictorial trends of the 20th century. In his beginnings, naif would dominate his paintings in certain ways, both in the use of shiny colours as in the figurative way. Even in his recent work Castillo de Irás y no Volverás, there´s a reminiscence of naif from... read more

Arena Plaza Budapest

Mónica Boixeda Budapester, Only-Be, Restaurantes

Arena Plaza is known in Hungary for being the biggest shopping in the country with the best clothes labels and the best food in the world.

Schopenhauer versus Hegel in the University of Berlin

Mónica Boixeda Berliner, Only-Be

When we think in Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) the first that we do nearly inevitably is refer to his incomparable style. A delicious and seductive way to write and present his ideas, so interested in putting in contact Western philosophy with some important aspects of ancient wisdom and Oriental thoughts, which has subjugated from its emergence to a large part of the most select and important writers of the last two centuries, unable to resist the influx of its siren call. From Nietzsche – who abandoned philology for philosophy on its hypnotic rise – to Borges via Marcel Proust, the most important and delicate craftsmen of the literary creation of the male pantheon have had him as a light which made hours milder and more enjoyable shedding unused light into life´s long and gloomy night. It´s not strange, given his extremely offensive misogyny – which may have to be understood under his conception of art of insulting as the last resource when it becomes apparent that the opponent is superior and it´s not possible to be right or to defeat him with reasoning – that women, generally, have maintained their enthusiasm for him on a secret and critical level. However, Schopenhauer himself was in charge of reminding us in more than one occasion that having something to say wasn´t only the first rule of the good style but the only one necessary, despite that all German writer, particularly philosophers, distinguished themselves for transgressing it from the time of Fichte, cultivating what he ingeniously named the Homeopathic Method: “a minimal and weakened portion of thought in fifty pages of waffling, and... read more