To accompany the paintings of Concha Sampol
CARME RIERA
When Concha Sampol and I met, at the end of the sixties, she wanted to be a painter and I a writer, but neither of us had done more than dabblings, shown secretly only to our closest friends. Our vocations, however were clear and for nothing in this world would we have renounced them.
Geologías
JOSÉ CARLOS LLOP
I've often asked myself about the tendency of contemporary Majorcan painters toward abstraction and conceptualismo With few exceptions - curiously, some of the best known and most highly esteemed among them -, my contemporaries have opted for abstraction.
Wealth and austerity
GUILLEM FRONTERA
Concha Sampol naturally an island, Mallorca, and is worth remembering, if only for the fact that a certain geographical determinism has traditionally involved asynchrony between the streams of art in Europe and on the island. The moments shared correctly have been few and glorious.
Geometries
BIEL MESQUIDA
I will make pictures of words with diluted thoughts among the letters to be able to express some of the pleasures I’ve been given by Concha Sampol’s paintings, exhibited at Espai d’Art Miquela Nicolau in Felanitx this April 2008. Aphorisms are symptoms of mental arteriosclerosis, as the friend Vladimir Nabokov said
From ten to ten
RAMON CANET
It's ten o'clock in the morning. The studio ofConcha Sampol is neater than what I am used too There is much light in the upper part of Barcelona. An easel, each painting in its place and a table for tranquil work. Pulchritude governs the place. Everything is measured. The environment transmits great aesthetic concern.
Internal figuration
ELENA VALLÉS
Concha Sampol recognizes that requires order and perfection of the square, that figure in which is contained, "but where I go crazy because then I urge out." prisoners of geometry boxes, but the fugitives through imperfect confinement strokes and colors that open a different path to the outside.