Nautilus 9
This work belongs to the Nautilus series, the name of Captain Nemo’s underwater ship, the outlaw and loner, referencing the protagonist of Jules Verne’s classic work, Twenty-One Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. In one scene, Nemo, Latin for “Nobody,” shows two intruders the interior of the ship and the large room containing the greatest works of art in the history of humanity.
A Story
Taul\u00e9 is a painter, but from the very beginning, photographs were a medium, a tool in the process prior to painting. But from a certain point on, the medium became confused with the end. Photographs are as enigmatic as paintings. The spaces had to be empty, and it was necessary, above all, to choose the time and day: it was very important to know how to capture the instant when the sun rose and the light penetrated horizontally into the interior.
(Sabadell, Catalonia, 1945)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Taul\u00e9’s painting is based on his attraction to large, empty spaces. In it, one finds the dialectic of emptiness: a dialogue between the large interior spaces and light (or backlighting, as in the series of caves he painted in Formentera during the 1980s, but also in works from other periods). A dialectic, by extension, between interior and exterior space, which penetrates the painting through the almost cinematic projection of light. A light that unveils the dark interior and reveals its disturbing and enigmatic nature. And which at the same time recalls the exterior landscape, indefinite, immeasurable. The interior is thus the stage for the light that comes from outside. A luxurious, markedly architectural setting. And empty, uninhabitable except in dreams. Because all these spaces, these inexplicable situations, are made of the stuff of dreams. Equally important are the corridors, the doorways, the passageways, unpredictable spaces. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2291,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1389","col-leccio","type-col-leccio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n