Whilst on holiday, walking in the Pyrenees, we stopped for dinner at a lovely restaurant called El Montanes in Biescas. As well as a wonderful dinner in a convivial surroundings the walls were decorated with some striking pictures. As I was leaving I noted the pictures were signed by the artist LuJSon and I followed up on my return to England.
@Lu_J_Son is Tomas Langarita, who is from Zaragoza and may well teach there at the University. I contacted him via Instagram and found he has lot of beautiful work.
In particular, in the restaurant I loved "8p.m.". It is easily recognisable as lady on a sofa drinking a glass of wine, with book shelves in the background. There is a hint of Mondrian (who I dont like) in the white bookshelf grid. The books are bright primary colours, neat but not regimented, random but harmonious, filling the top half of the frame. The bottom half contains a grey sofa which is occupied by a lady, making herself comfortable with her feet up. She is holding up a glass of good red wine which she is savouring. Her posture, expression and mood are captured with a few straight line segments. I think this is brilliant. I like the way that artists can capture meaning in single curves representing people or objects; this goes a step further capturing something extra from straight lines. All the colours are outlined with black lines and it would be easy to translate the picture to stained glass fragments, joined / separated by lead joints (e.g.
Sophie Taeuber-Arp work)
I have contacted Tomas and I may actually be able to buy this picture. It would be lovely if this works.
In the meantime I have looked at more of his pictures some of which were at El Montanes....
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