Joan Hernández Pijuan ///

Painting and Space: A Personal Experience

The practice of painting is a form of knowledge and not so much of communication as is in generally asserted. It is a form of continual training in which doubt is ever-present. It is not a detached event for it accepts neither logical beginnings nor endings. One has to learn that painting is not something that looks pretty but rather something that conveys meaning. It must be a reflection of oneself and arise from the 'need' to paint; there will be something of a 'hobby' overlapping the professional side.
The practice of painting –through being more direct, through being my own reflection, without dialectic pitfalls or ambiguities, by being the job I chose to do and in which, therefore, I must run my own risks, by being, in conclusion, my own truth Ð has to be, or so I must believe, much more valid than my own words. Evidently these are engendered more in words about words, in rhetoric or else in the desire to explain and often justify 'discovered' realities in ARTIST SPECULATION –which philosophers or theoreticians always endeavour to confuse with philosophy or theory. The reflection of such speculation will always be pictorial practice itself. (...)