Amor hasta los huesos (Head Over Heels Love)

Artist, art critic and poet Juan Ismael is one of the main exponents of Surrealism from the Canary Islands. His pictorial work conveys an oneiric aesthetic, the source of an experimentation he started in Madrid in 1934. Ismael cemented friendships with many of the figures involved in Gaceta de Arte and his most direct ties with the magazine came with his participation, in June 1936, at the Arte Contemporáneo ADLAN – Gaceta de Arte exhibition, held in Tenerife’s Círculo de Bellas Artes. The previous month he had participated, with Maruja Mallo, Remedios Varo and other artists, in the first and only show of the Grupo Logicofobista from Barcelona. Amor hasta los huesos (Head Over Heels in Love) imparts the influence of telluric Surrealism from the Escuela de Vallecas and the Dalinian concept of “the putrid” in a creative exploration of the anatomical interior, coupled with the romantic metaphor in the title.



Raúl Martínez Arranz