Pedro Gandía Literature. Was born on August 4, 1953, in Minglanilla, Cuenca, Spain, where he lived until he was nine years old. He studied secondary school in Cuenca, a city that marked him by awakening in him, with its Museum of Abstract Art, a taste for art, to which his friendship with Fernando Zóbel contributed. Also for Literature, pleasure that he discovered through his teacher, and also friend, Vicente Tusón. In 1972 he moved to Valencia and enrolled in the Superior Conservatory of Music and in the School of Arts and Crafts, disciplines that he later left for the studies of Philology. His literary education was marked by his stays in Paris and its museums between 1974 and 1976, as well as by his visits to Rome, Florence and London, where his pleasure in artistic creation was revived. He has been a painter (1982-1992), sculptor (1996-1999), professor of Literature, art dealer and director of the “Jade” collections, of narrative and poetry, of the Institute of Modernist Studies. Since 2016, he has re-taken the brushes to paint, on some of his old canvases, his series “Elegías”.
Pedro Gandía Literature. If poetry was painting for Simonides of Ceos, and poetry was a talking image, it is fascinating to study the painted images (mute verses) of the poet-painter. The case is not uncommon; all knowledge tends by synthesis towards its visualization, and there are many splendid examples throughout history: Salvador Rosa, Goethe, García Lorca, William Blake, Moreno Villa …
Being the image, by definition, a set of forms and figures endowed with unity and signification, Pedro Gandía composes the images of his abstraction harmonizing forms and figures that could be said belonging to the color itself: each color seems to have its own body, skin and movement, as something inseparable from their pigmented reality.
Pedro Gandía Literature. The colors weigh, glide, embrace or become almost weightless waving its profile, as a sendal, to the impulse of an even lighter pigment; they interpret a slow dance, a movement always related to the musical that remembers “stagings” of settecentists’ operas (perhaps Bibiena?); studies for a parsimonious and cyclopean choreography.
The poet directs here the splendid music of Pedro Gandía’s verses.
Acropolis, the title of the poems, whose meaning refers to the highest and most fortified place in Greek cities, advances the key to their meaning, in the opening quotation which says: There are still some acropolis where you can take
Diary of an ascension to the hells of the real, written between 1982 and 1983, initiatory journey to the heart of emptiness, El perfume de la pantera -narcotic perfume of life- represents the flesh, from aesthetics and cursing, as sacred
HEL I XS is a collection of poems in Catalan, thirty short poems written between 1980 and 1995, with interpolations in French, Latin, Portuguese and Italian, which advocates a poetic language of diversity and miscegenation.
In the four allegorical texts that consist into this collection of poems in prose, dated between 1973 and 1976, recurring themes of the author's poetic universe are encoded, at the same time are configuring the keys to access that fictitious
All the curses of the poet come together in this collection of poems, written between 1977 and 1980, an orgiastic ritual that pursues confusion, the fundamental and total undifferentiation of the sexes and values, of the substance, of the chaos
It is about five long odes in Alexandrians, written between 1973 and 1974, where the poet reflects his dazzling by classical Greek art, which gives form to the gods; by Leonardo, the seduction of the enigma of the real; by
El príncipe de los poetas franceses, Paul Valéry (1871-1945), el artista “puro” ―al margen de su propia creación, superior a ella misma―, mostró una fascinación constante por la imagen de Narciso, personaje que recorre toda su obra desde “Narciso habla”,
La Esfinge, la obra más ambiciosa y personal de Oscar Wilde, antes de entrar en prisión, es un poema perfecto. Este joyel simbolista y barroco, con ecos de El cuervo de Poe, Las Flores del Mal de Baudelaire y Las
The works collected in this collection of poems, written between 1974 and 1976, constitute an extension of the poet's passion for the Hellenic world, with its myths and its cult of the beauty of form.
Para Paul Valéry (1871-1945), la poesía es la más hermosa de las técnicas creativas y la más difícil de todas las artes, y un poema no es un verdadero poema si no es bello. Tras publicar su obra cumbre en