This exhibition began with the enthusiasm of Javier Viar for John Davies,whose work he had seen and admired twenty years ago in an exhibition in London at Marlborough Fine Art. When he became Director of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, he followed up this old interest and found his way to John Davies's studio in the East End of London. It was not by chance, for the Museum in Bilbao has developed a tradition of openness to English art in its acquisitions and exhibitions. This was most recently exemplified in the exhibition of R.B. Kitaj's "Spanish" pictures,and before that in the exhibition of Anthony Caro's Last Judgement sculptures and indeed in the double exhibition of Whistler and Sickert in 1998.

This first contact was followed almost immediately, and coincidentally, by the arrival of Kesme de Baranano in John Davies's studio. John Davies is the most English of artists but he has a considerable affection for Spain--there are sculptures in the exhibition which began, in his head at least, when he walked part of the Camino de Santiago some years ago--but nevertheless he must have been astonished by the number of directors of major Spanish museums knocking on his studio door.

Presentaci6n / Presentation

Consuelo Ciscar

Javier Viar

Prefacio / Preface

Andrew Dempsey

John Davies: "La historia de ser humanos"

John Davies: "The story of being human"

Timothy Hyman

Extranos habitantes

Strange Inhabitants

Javier Viar

John Davies o el tiempo congelado

John Davies or frozen time

Kosme de Baranano

Catalogo de obras

Catalogue of works

Textos de John Davies y una antologia personal

Texts of John Davies and a personal anthology

Biograffa / Biography

isabel Serra

Bibliograffa / Bibliography

Traducci6 al valencia