‘Our Men in Tahiti was an ambitious project based on a quest that took Zabell to Scotland, California and French Polynesia, to later create series of artworks based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s gruesome last novel, ‘The Ebb Tide’. Zabell strives to represent the beauty of the South Pacific overlapping it with the crude reality of colonialism as genially described by Stevenson; creating as a result a convulsed beauty that takes more than one viewing.
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‘Our Men in Tahiti’ (Nuestros hombres en Tahití) fue un ambicioso proyecto de Zabell, basado en una extensa investigación que le ha llevado a Escocia, California y la Polinesia Francesa, y a partir de la cual ha creado una serie de obras basadas en la sórdida última novela de Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘Bajamar’ (The Ebb Tide). Zabell se afana por representar la belleza del Pacífico sur a la que superpone la cruda realidad del colonialismo genialmente descrita por Stevenson; teniendo como resultado una belleza convulsa que precisa de más de una mirada.
‘Our Men in Tahiti’ (the yellow flag), 2016, oil on canvas / óleo sobre lienzo, 180 x 220 cm
‘Our Men in Tahiti’, 2016, oil on canvas / óleo sobre lienzo, 150 x 150 cm
‘Our Men in Tahiti’ (the encroaching seas), 2016, oil on canvas / óleo sobre lienzo, 200 x 200 cm
‘Our Men in Tahiti’ (man’s affairs), 2015, oil on canvas / óleo sobre lienzo, 150 x 150 cm
‘Our Men in Tahiti’ (destiny at the door), 2015, oil on canvas / óleo sobre lienzo, 150 x 180 cm
‘Our Men in Tahiti’ (a scarce denser medium), 2015, oil on canvas / óleo sobre lienzo, 180 x 220 cm
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The ‘Our Men in Tahiti’ project is generously backed by / El proyecto ‘Our Men in Tahiti’ cuenta con el generoso apoyo de
