An exhibition of caricatures by Harry Boyser is opening in Tenerife.
A free exhibition, "Harry Boster: Humanizing Geometry," is opening in Tenerife, showcasing the avant-garde caricatures of the artist who sought to reflect the inner world of man through geometry and metaphor.
Today, Friday at 7:00 p.m., the exhibition "Harry Beuster: Humanizing Geometry" opens at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes. This is part of the 22nd Tenerife International Comics and Illustration Salon.
Admission to the exhibition is free, and it will run until November 9. Here you will see caricatures by Harry Beuster (he was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and lived from 1931 to 2010). The exhibition will show that his works are not just printed drawings, but true art. And also – how much the artist loved his work.
The exhibition "Harry Beuster: Humanizing Geometry" features 40 works. Most of them were provided by the Harry Beuster family and the Film + Comics Foundation. Some are from the TEA collection. The curators of the exhibition are José Manuel González Reyes and Carlos M. Rodríguez Carlines. The exhibition will be open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Graphic humor has always been special in art. It is more accustomed to newspapers than to museums, and is perhaps closest to ordinary people. But because it is a comic, it is often considered frivolous and reduced to simple entertainment. This is especially true of caricatures: they are often seen as entertainment for tourists or a grotesque mockery of people. Harry Beuster was one of those who fought against these prejudices.
He was one of the main representatives of the avant-garde caricature movement that emerged in Spain in the 1950s under the leadership of Luis Lasa and Paco Martínez. Harry Beuster advocated a new model of caricature.
Beuster believed that caricature is not just copying and ridiculing. It should not turn a person into a grotesque. Beuster was most interested in the inner world of man. He wanted to create a vivid image, a portrait of the soul, using color and simple lines. He believed that with the help of geometry and metaphor, a person could be reproduced more truthfully than any copy. This gave rise not only to the eternal dispute between caricature and other forms of art, but also to a new conflict: between the new and the old caricature.