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Girbent
Pictures
The Rite (The documentary)

Galería Horrach Moyà
Carrer Catalunya 4 - 07011 Palma de Mallorca.

Girbent concludes this third delivery of his cycle of exhibitions PICTURES with the inclusion of a video piece that narrates the epic production of the works in charcoal that make up this show... A parallel and deferred narration that overlaps (adding another dimension to the work) the narration articulated on the exhibition proposal of the actual physical pieces.

The video adopts the format of a “fake documentary” (it is not a coincidence that it is based on two supposed visits of the enigmatic film-maker that never really took place) and takes as its model the habitual bombastic tone of art documentaries.

Girbent’s work not only offers us a detached view point –maybe ironic– of his own work, but also a subtle invective on the mystification that habitually impregnates the literature associated to pictorial criticism.

However, it seems obvious that in between one solemn statement and the other Girbent slips off some genuine declarations that stem from his particular worldview. Somehow, the spectator appears to be invited to detect these substantial contributions inserted into the mystifying narration, while he appreciates the far from negligible visual beauty of this work, more like a film poem than a documentary.