Painting
- Fernando Arrabal has often described himself as a “frustrated painter.” He has produced around fifty canvases, a hundred or so drawings and collages, which have been exhibited in museums such as the Paris Art Center, Musée de Bayeux and the The Villa San Carlo Borromeo Art Museum, Milano.
- Is approach to painting consists of close collaboration with artists who produce large-format oils based on detailed sketches which he provides.
- In 1962, his first such painting was chosen for reproduction in the noted art publication, “La Brèche: Action Surréaliste Revue” by its founding editor, André Breton.
- Currently Fernando Arrabal is collaborating with the sculptor/video artist Christèle Jacob, with whom he has created a dozen videos and photomontage series, including “Les artilleurs des échecs et de la littérature” (The artillery corps of chess and literature), inspired by an artwork by Henri Rousseau (1909), and au “Rendez-vous du Corps des satrapes” (Meeting of the Satrap Association), based on a work by Max Ernst (1922).
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