My first impression when I entered this exhibition hall was: "What the heck is this? Is this an unfinished exhibition or are there missing works? Maybe my eyes are deceiving me and am I seeing all the same pictures...
But really, don't they all look the same? If I see it well, all of the paintings represent one and the same thing - musical instruments. 🤷♀
Are those guitars? Violins maybe? Or their combination? None of them is bad actually, as a musician I am thrilled with whatever musical instrument I see (the exception is the piano - then I am super thrilled haha).
It was time to get a little closer and see if this was the most boring exhibition I have ever visited or the opposite because sometimes for the artist it is a real challenge actually to work on the same theme but presenting it in a different way. It is not easy at all. Also, for the spectators, it is a challenge to see the difference (no, I don't mean that game of "spot the differences" haha, although that wouldn't be bad for distraction either) and find another dimension, some other level or way of perceiving that will give them a kind of satisfaction.
The almost identical paintings slowly showed their differences, but at the moment just in a subtle way. Still, they are all only string instruments. Okay, I admit, it is the case with humans too. Just imagine, we would all look the same for some aliens who visit our planet for the first time. (I wonder if they would like to come back the next time finding our world a bit boring? 😆).
Now, if we see each painting from this batch in a separate photo, we can notice the difference in presentation, instruments, shape, and colours. And indeed, the author of these works, Javier Jesús Zamora Hernáiz, called them all Melodía (Melody) but with a different colour. I missed seeing the name of the first painting 😅 but I would call it something like... Melodía Soleada (Sunny Melody).
Btw, this was a sales exhibition of this author. I found on the desk a catalogue with the names of the paintings and prices. The prices were oscillating between 450€ and 700€ (in this page). I had one favourite painting from the whole exhibition, I will show it at the end of this post.
As our daily lives, full of situations that seem very much the same, these seemingly alike paintings kept popping up on the walls. However, we know they are not the same at all.
Your gestures, habits, words, places you visit or live in, or the food you eat may be set and similar, even the sun that rises every day is the same but do you really perceive it in the same way each time? Can you establish relationships in one word, and require everyone to fit into that standard in the same way? If that is what you want then you are addressing the expectations in the wrong direction.
Well, these instruments for sure didn't mind appearing in different colours and positions. A musical world upside down, mixed up, twisted and apparently not as boring as it seemed at the beginning of this post... or?
My favourite piece found its melody and its colour... it appeared as Melodía Siena (Siena Melody), priced at 750€. I think my son would also like it and be thrilled to see it. 🎻 😊
