From the Archive
This section presents documents relating to the artist’s biography – mainly correspondence, photographs and exhibition documents – as well as notebooks and sketches, the latter dating from the 1990s and 2000s, no further back.
The sketches seem particularly illuminating in terms of the priorities of this art. It would appear that, between background and figure, it is the background that largely prevails: the colors, of course, but also their consistency, thickness, and layers, whether scraped, applied with a brush, reworked with paint stripper, with drippings or painted with a dry brush, round or flat… Guido’s backgrounds are incredibly rich. A whole philosophy, not only aesthetic, can be drawn from this radical shift in focus.
We also have some correspondence from the 1950s – rather sparse, as is natural given the abundance of letters written in exile – and photographs, including a few portraits of the painter by the photographer Mario García Joya, “Mayito”, and Raúl Martínez. Mayito took part with Antonia Eiriz in the last Los Once exhibition in 1963.
It is impossible to put all of the documents online. Researchers should note that the entire archive will soon be available at the Kandinsky Library, Centre Pompidou, Paris.