LLORENÇ GINARD. SCULPTURES

The long, beneficial artistic career of Llorenç Ginard (Manacor, Mallorca,1935) proves the unquestionable concurrence of two qualities – talent and constancy – in this drawer, painter and, above all, sculptor. A singular creator who formed part of some of the most interesting collective proposals that germinated in the Balearics in the 1960s and ‘70s, as a prominent, highly-active member of the Grup Drac and the Grup Dimecres. Nevertheless Ginard remained relatively detached from the usual exhibition and commercial circuits, although this did not prevent many of his pieces from being incorporated into private collections of a certain relevance, directly from his own workshop.
 
This exhibition leads us down a retrospective route through the medium of expression that has defined a large part of his artistic production. Llorenç Ginard is one of those sculptors who are permanently moving between a struggle with, and affection for, a raw material from which he manages to extract those peculiar forms that characterise most of his work. A journey without end, full of comings and goings, of encounters and misunderstandings, expressing a constant search, intense research, connecting with his exhaustive analysis of the human form, with an innate capacity for synthesis and a highly-developed sense of aesthetics.
 
From his academy years, and including his first, more experimental incursions into certain aspects of the avant-gardes, into futurism, spatialism or metaphysical constructivism, until reaching the consolidation of his language in search of that which is ours, of what defines us, of the essence of the Mediterranean spirit, of its light and its shapes, culminating in a subsequent evolution of a more existentialist nature which has hitherto defined his most recent creative periods; all of them reveal the vitality and uncontainable drive of this artist who is decisively committed to shaping life.