introduction to the project
Encouraged by the possibility of creating an experiment combining the sensibilities of poetry and the visual arts within a concept of space and installation, Bruno Galindo and Karel Stoop traced the outline of a possible collaboration in 2009.The search began after the first visit of Galindo to the studio of Stoop in Barcelona. The structures and blue of the work "Avenue of life", along with conversations about the universe, time and dayly life led to the writing of a series of poems by Galindo.That was the basis of collaboration. And a series of about 25 works in mixed media were the material reflection and interpretation of the painter.Later the research became even more profound.
Both of them came to the approach of converting both languages in elements in the creation of a real experience based in the visual, the word, the light, the sound, the space and the time.To capture these areas in a common medium was chosen to interpret both as a variety of cosmic frequencies within the same experience. Thus arose the title, which runs from small to infinitesimal.Thus emerged "1 / 2 1 / 4 1 / 8 3 / 8 5 / 8 7 / 8"

4. Karel Stoop talks about the project

"From the poetry of Bruno Galindo. From the work "Avenue of Life". From the first brush strokes starting the project. From these points, something has begun to grow without  foreseeing the  extension nor the final meaning. For me it was an irrational experience with the sense of the poem, with the canvas and the paint. With the form of the words. These shapes that escaped from my hands by accident.
As a chain of abstractions where we are not talking about 2 works, nor about 25, nor about 2500. Theoretically it is infinite . In the practice it is until where we have arrived. It is a movement in an uncertain direction which reveals us step by step its secrets.

However, experiencing  the project in a shared way, it has added an inspirative dimension that invites to descentre  in the painting and bow the perception even more to a cosmic opening. In that way the paintings , as well the poems, get asumed in a wider concept/installation inwhich the space of the exhibition, the light, the sound, the presence and even the smell have the same protagonism.


5. Bruno Galindo talks about the project
"More interested for the incomprehensible than for the logical, for the distortion than for the shape, for the defocusing than for the knowable, I take the experience as the search
 for a new format for the word at a time when it fades in an unedited way within the history of communication.

The error bears the surprise, the interpretation of the other, the finding. Karel finds unusual meanings in words, and sublimates the meanings of others.
I see the result and let the cosmic logic of its colors and lights fill a cavity in which the words exist or fade, leaving certainty and shadows.
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