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Garden of Words<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Celebrated Visual Artist and Holocaust Survivor Pnina Granirer Blends Art and Poetry in a New Book<\/a>, Montecristo Magazine<\/em>, February 22, 2022<\/p>\n

Pnina Granirer launches new work at Jewish Book Festival<\/a>,  The Vancouver Sun<\/em>, February 4, 2022<\/p>\n

Poetry and Painting Flourish,<\/a> The Jewish Independent<\/em>, January 28, 2022  <\/p>\n

Light Within the Shadows<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

From wartime Romania to Vancouver, an artist’s memoir<\/a>
\nCBC Radio, May 21, 2017<\/p>\n

Author question and answer: Pnina Granirer talks Light Within the Shadows<\/a>
\nThe Vancouver Sun, May 19, 2017<\/p>\n

L’artiste Pnina Granirer entre dans un mus\u00e9e en Espagne (French)
\nJuly 28, 2017<\/p>\n

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TRANSLATION from Spanish
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INTERNATIONAL SURREALISM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Miguel P\u00e9rez Corrales \u2013 Surrealismo Internacional – http:\/\/surrint.blogspot.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/surrint.blogspot.ca\/search?q=pnina+granirer<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 21, 2012<\/p>\n

Pnina Granirer and Surrealism<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2005, the exhibition \u201cWest Coast Surrealism: A Canadian Perspective\u201d was held at the Foundation Eugenio Granell. It was presented by Gregg Simpson, the principal exponent of the Surrealist adventure in that part of the world. The names associated with Surrealism in the West Coast, whose center is Vancouver, have changed over the last half century. Other than the master of ceremonies, this exhibit included only three of its current representatives: Gordon Payne, Pnina Granirer and Martin Guderna\u2014an \u201cabsolute Surrealist.\u201d Payne and Granirer have participated in the group\u2019s activities since the early 90s. Since the first exhibition that brought these artist together in the 90s, Granirer has participated in two highly important exhibitions for the Surrealism of our day: \u201cO reverse do olhar\u201d (The Other Side of Seeing), in Coimbra 2008, and \u201cEl umbral secreto\u201d (The Secret Threshold), held to great acclaim in Santiago de Chile in 2009-\u00ad\u20102010.<\/p>\n

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\nHomage to an Unknown Kwagiuth artist, 1989, mixed media on paper, 22×39 in., 56×76 am.<\/p>\n

Pnina Granirer\u2019s oeuvre <\/em>cannot be considered Surrealist in its entirety. It also lacks an openly acknowledged influence by the movement at any given moment, at least as far as we know. However, a truly fascinating period of her work attracted Gregg Simpson\u2019s educated gaze. Simpson singled out her \u201cpoetic vision\u201d and lyrical abstraction as the two traits that linked this artist to Surrealism. \u201cPnina Granirer\u2019s art,\u201d he wrote in a key 1997 text dedicated to her work, \u201cis before all a lyrical art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pnina Granirer was born in 1935 to a Jewish Rumanian family. She moved to Israel in 1950 in the aftermath of atrocious historical circumstances, which included surviving Nazism and, shortly thereafter, the so-called \u201cdictatorship of the proletariat.\u201d Twelve years later, she moved to Vancouver where she has lived ever since.<\/p>\n

Always resorting to a great variety of media and techniques, in the late seventies Granirer\u2019s work took a turn that would bring it significantly closer to Surrealism. A few weeks ago I wrote in these pages that we need a book about Surrealism and Amerindian cultures. One of the chapters of this book would have to be devoted to Pnina Granirer \u2018s work between 1978 and 1981, which was inspired by the landscape and rich native cultures of the Pacific Northwest and which brings to us a vision that Agustin Espinoza would have described as \u201cintegral\u201d, that is to say, as poetic and non-\u00ad\u2010realist.<\/p>\n

The image at the beginning, titled \u201cHomage to an Unknown Kwakiutl Artist,\u201d belongs to this cycle. Other admirable pieces are \u201cLegend of Forbidden Plateau (triptych), \u201cForest Ghosts\u201d (diptych), \u201cWhispering Forests\u201d (full series), \u201cSilent Roots Beneath the Mountains,\u201d \u201cPortrait of an Old Kwatiutl Man,\u201d \u201cConsumed Forest\u201d and \u201cDeep Forest\u201d. Totemic elements and Kwakiutl masks are incorporated into the series on anthropophagic birds, \u201cThe Cannibal Bird Suite.\u201d These mythical birds haunted the forests where people went in search of their song. The initiated were in danger of becoming transformed into one of them. The following painting from this series is titled \u201cDawn\u201d (1981):<\/p>\n

\"Dawn,
\nDawn, 1981, mixed media on paper 30×22 in., 76×56 cm.<\/p>\n

The fantastic totems, the masks and the sumptuous feasts that characterize Kwakiutl culture attracted Vincent Bounoure, for whom Kwakiutl art was the most \u201cviolently tormented\u201d and the most \u201cexpressive and colorful.\u201d Edward S. Curtis dedicated to it a full chapter of his book North American Indians, <\/em>chapter 10 titled Chamanes y deidades <\/em>(Shamans and Deities), <\/em>translated by Ola\u00f1eta in 1994. For her 1980 Vancouver exhibition, \u201cWest Coast Series,\u201d Pnina Granirer wrote: \u201c I deliberately used some native design elements, as well as images of things vital to the life of the Coast People, who lived here from time immemorial. The animals, the boat, the fishhook, the fern and leaves printed directly on the paper are there to pay homage to the ancient West Coast People\u2019s culture and to the hope of its survival in our times.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1985 and 1986 Granirer found a new Surrealist inspiration. In early 1985 she had travelled to the Sunshine Coast where she experienced a revelation or, rather, where the rocks revealed themselves to her. The difficulty in describing this experience is telling.<\/p>\n

We say mechanically that one \u201csuffered\u201d a hallucination or a revelation instead of saying that one \u201cenjoyed\u201d a hallucination or a revelation, which would be more correct. Pnina Granirer enjoys <\/em>the intermittent revelation of the rocks, to which, she has repeatedly insisted, she had been indifferent up to that point. Rocks became a crucial element in her work and have remained so since that pivotal year. For Gregg Simpson, her \u201cCarved Stones\u201d series situate Granirer firmly within Surrealism, not only due to their \u201clyric quality\u201d but also to their equally \u201cdisquieting\u201d character. Her \u201cPortrait of a Rock\u201d (1988), see below, is a notable example.<\/p>\n

In 1986, another trip to Gabriola Island acted as a poetic trigger. On this island, fertile with sand stones and indigenous pictographs, the artist discovered strange hollow cavities carved directly from the bedrock, now filled with rainwater and wild grasses. These were the remains of an old millstone quarry abandoned since the mid 30s. Its absolute strangeness gave birth to a plastic series, \u201cThe Millstone Quarry,\u201d but also to poems and photographs. The triptych \u201cMystery on Gabriola Island\u201d (1987), below, is part of that series.<\/p>\n

\"Stonehead
\nStonehead Red., 1988, mixed media on paper, 30×22 in. 56×76 cm.<\/p>\n

When Pnina Granirer\u2019s exhibition in a Strasbourg gallery opened, a visitor compared those mysterious holes to the holes she saw in the Vosges mountains. The Celts used rock cavities for libations. Had I been present at that exhibition, I would have found a similarity with the sanctuary at Pan\u00f3ias, in Tr\u00e1s-os-Montes, Portugal, where the Romans sacrificed animals \u201cto the somber gods\u201d atop granite rocks where they had excavated similar cavities.<\/p>\n

\"Discover<\/p>\n

For more information on Pnina Granirer, who I would venture to call a Surrealist in her Kwakiutl gaze and in the secret of the rocks, see Ted Lindberg\u2019s thorough monograph, Pnina Granirer. Portrait of an Artist <\/em>(Ronsdale Press, Vancouver, 1998).<\/p>\n

You can also access her excellent webpage at www.pninagranirer.com.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Miguel P\u00e9rez Corrales Departamento de Filologia Espanola Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, November 21, 2012<\/p>\n

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