Dimensions: support: 483 x 168 mm
Copyright: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have Joan González's "Girl with Black Gloves" from the Tate Collections. She seems suspended in time, like a figure from a half-remembered dream. What symbols do you see here? Curator: The gloves themselves suggest a performance of social expectation, a carefully constructed persona. Notice how they contrast with the vulnerability in her gaze. Is she protected or imprisoned by these symbols? Editor: That contrast is so subtle, I almost missed it! Thanks for pointing it out. Curator: What we choose to display, and what we conceal, tells a profound story of cultural memory. Consider, too, the hat, its presence in this setting.
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González used drawing as a primary way of exploring his ideas. These drawings, made over a six-year period, show how his abstract idiom was rooted in reality and, especially, in the figure. González concentrated on upright structures that, if translated into sculpture, would make use of the strength and balance available from welded iron. This group gives a sense of his inventiveness as he worked towards images with a high emotional charge. Gallery label, August 2004
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