EMILIO GONZÁLEZ SAINZ

Spain, 1961

GALERÍA SIBONEY

Emilio González Sainz recreates in his works the personalities of the collector in his cabinet of curiosities, the explorer of the deep north, the walker in the forest, the hunter with his greyhounds, the writer working in his cabin… to a certain extent archetypes of a part of European culture of the last three hundred years that is related to books and to the knowledge of nature as spheres of both work and individual pleasure.

González Sainz loves winter landscapes, bare rocks and frozen fields, and it is in this sphere of elective affinities that his latest production of felt-tip pen drawings is situated, in which he writes the names of his favourite artists and writers forming swirls in the air. Patinir, Brueguel, Poe, Corot, Ucello, Melville, Mantegna, Pessoa, Bonnard, Dufy, Matisse, Morandi, Brancusi, Austen, Hopper, Stubss, Giacometti, Paul Klee, Highsmith seem about to disappear.