F. CHIRIVELLA SORIANO. Valeriola, 13
Enric Banyuls is mostly known for having been part of the Al Tall group, but it turns out that he was only a musician for one season, painter all his life. To discover this artistic facet, the Consortium of Museums has displayed in the Palau Joan de Valeriola the last thirty years of the career of this reserved painter from Corbera who lived quietly on the periphery of the periphery without the need to enter the artistic circuits more conventional. From the silence groups abstract works in black and white ("painting is not made to inform, it is made to move", said Banyuls), thorough and away from fashions and effects, made of low quality materials. fishing line, umbrella rods, rubber, painted canvas and cardboard interact with oil in still life paintings and three-dimensional landscapes (in his study he was surrounded by Cavall Bernat and the Marjal de Cullera) or fogasses de pa, which he produced by gluing hundreds of thin strips of paper onto the canvas that drew the shape and volume, applying a thick layer of oil and lifting the strips again to get a doughy bread made of holes. Since he was not going to the field to plow, he was more than willing to sweat in the studio making art. AU
