In the early 1970s, Eulàlia is very young and very angry. She’s in her twenties when she begins to sketch portraits of her society - conservative, violent, authoritarian and Catholic. She calls herself Eulàlia already ; no patronym, and no clear-cut idea of what she hopes to do, except to leave. Leaving is urgent. In 1971, Eulàlia elects Paris and leaves her native Catalonia where Franco continues to spread his terror. Entrance tickets to national museums, chocolate wrappers and a few café receipts bear witness to this getaway. These sparse scraps of paper are laid out on a gray cardboard sheet, clearly dated. The memory of a first collage.
Collage allows her to deconstruct what is troubling, everything that is sometimes established too quickly, and which anchors itself in people's minds like the foundations of a beautiful building. She cuts-and-pastes, criticizes her society in a very spontaneous way. In 1972 she launched the ‘Etnografias’ series of photomontages; the title speaks for itself.
Each Etnografia is made from a collage - photographed, enlarged and then reproduced on canvas using a photographic emulsion process, sometimes enhanced with a few touches of acrylic.
This is why Eulàlia almost always speaks of "paintings". However, the premises are indeed assemblages of images gleaned from the pages of the magazines of her time. Through collage, she confronts fragments of reality that do not normally meet. She details them, rubs them together on the same plane; and that's when the work starts to scream.
For the artist's second exhibition, the gallery is showing for the first time and in exclusivity the artist's original collages.
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
Opened in 1990 in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois has been able to bring together heritage and contemporary artists through large-scale exhibitions. The presentation of major works from New European Realism and American Hyperrealism alongside a vibrant contemporary artistic scene remains the hallmark of the gallery.