Exhibition I Solo show

Mon Colonel & Spit

24 June – 28 July 2024
Can Garita, Ibiza, Spain

Photography by Sarah Suco Torres

Can Garita & Los Enamorados are pleased to present Eric Colonel & Thomas Spit’s first solo show in Spain. On this occasion, the artists gather a new selection of ceramics especially made for this exhibition which coincide with CAN Art.

The long nose of the plague, the stretched smile of a joker; the grin of a witch or a death mask. For the past few years, Mon Colonel & Spit have brought to life a strange crowd of terracotta masks. By plunging their hands into the clay to create small sculptures, the duo explores the endless possibilities of a practice that has always accompanied human communities, from the kitchen to the art object. In ceramics, anything can be played out, just as a child only needs a garden to bring to life a world of images and tales, with a bit of sand, earth, and a few twigs to draw lines. New forms can emerge – as no two masks are alike – but everything can also be replayed in a story as ancient as the world itself. For that is what masks are: so many figures, representations of little secret stories that we think we can guess and that we always invent. Their expression is a face frozen in eternity by a firing process, which is also an artifact of culture, for it is indeed by firing them over time that Mon Colonel & Spit’s small sculptures capture the features of fears, joys, desires, lies, legends, and beliefs, everything that flourishes better under a mask because the latter can be a sly disguise as well as a welcome protection or discretion.

Extract from the press release
Rose Vidal