What comes first, the chicken or the egg?, Asked children in the Hegelian school. And right after this question, the world of the school in two, between those who believe that the first is the egg and those who believe that it is the hen. War, blood, disparate religions ... everything has a similar origin. A dispute over a trivial matter, and also has no answer because it is a kind of trompe l'oeil of logic structure of the dialectic Escher adventure. Because everyone knows that there is no egg hen, but also that there is no hen egg that can be expected. Actually solving the dilemma lies in the abandonment of the cage where prisoners remain Cause and Effect, each lying on his bed brooding new lawsuits, without regard to any admission of guilt or regret. Cause and effect are unmarried partner, but as much as to endeavor to enlarge the size of your legend can not aspire to be recognized as the only parents of all beings in the universe. So, leaving his cage Cause and Effect, skirting the pitfalls of classical logic and ceiling covering the Euclidean space where dying can be glimpsed other ways, other solutions to dilemmas hen egg-type. The skull is to be understood as a boundary between man and thinking that distinguishes it as such, ie, as a new red line dilemma egg-type chicken. That is the starting point of the exhibition Andy Planas on Reus Fran Palma gallery, the idea that the artist has' skull container as being "as his expression, the foundation aiming to previous dilemma. In the same way that the egg contains within itself what will be the future hen, once developed from what it is concentrated inside the skull that holds the brain stores all thoughts that occur to the skull Throughout its existence, thoughts, as in the case of the egg, and given there are, potentially, and that will come to light as the skull grows and collect experiences that make crackling in one way or another; come to light as do the feathers of the chicken as it unfolds, and as do the new eggs that will eventually mature hen.

But this approach is not deterministic, despite appearances. Remember that we have left the two jailed members of that unfortunate partner, Cause and Effect. Contain within the skull, in this case, means the act of artistic creation may be similar to that produced by copulating with fertile results. But how often was coupled without fertile result? Ah, there you have caught, unlucky Caused and Effect! The chicken-egg dilemma in terms of artistic creation, has other paradoxical solutions.

What does produce significant and tangible effects is dancing in cassocks collective memory of those who were students at a religious school. For example, La Salle de Palma. Cassocks dance sometimes to the tune of a homophone rate, and everything is disrupted by a veneer of hypocrisy and falsehood, the end of the day, be one of the main school teaching, at least in the Mediterranean environment, students extracted its passage through purgatory than to confront childhood or the rigors of adult life.

The mixture is then explosive: crosses and bibles repressors stand as symbols, skulls adopt the profile death (and thus rid themselves some function as containers of being), the strategy is dark (like the robes) and grows one underground rampant homosexuality (under one of the robes). It is rich in moral and amoral universe, anaerobic, Mediterranean plankton, the country where they have lived the most prolific creative processes of his later years as an artist Andrés Planas.

An element is still missing in the theoretical overview of this impressive showing, and collecting the parallelism between surgery and education. Some people believe that education is a solid foundation to build on a new building; but there is also one establishes its winter headquarters in horticulture theoretical and believes that the best education is the result of pruning and restraining rods guides to stop controlling their development, in addition to the grafts. The surgeon does not educate the body through muscle discipline or eating habits but through direct, forceful, fierce physical work, transforming reality by way of a Deus ex Machina comes to fitting in, of course, with the dream of those offenders that we had left locked in the cage, Cause and Effect. Basically everything is aligned in this thesis except the skull, the ovoid shape leads us directly to the hen-egg dilemma that sweeps all the robes and all boots surgeon horizon. The skull as a bulwark, as last barricade of belief in magic. The "Meditecráneo" series of small format and executed in mixed media (oil, acrylic, collage), includes all proposals Formalhyde artist, from which great use of them open and light color which are tripping over themselves in the recesses more initiatory symbolism. "Meditecráneo" is a comprehensive, inexhaustible series, where Andrew Planes voice finds its most empathetic, and which also has published a wonderful book on the occasion of this exhibition, which includes some of the pieces together with related texts 199 has been collecting John Rabell, friend of the artist, exquisite collector, plastic surgeon and recognized craneofílico (no wonder my Rabell participated in exhibition "What Unamiable option" in the museum Baluard, with a real head of a cannibal in Papua New Guinea of its collection artfully worked, the exhibition was the cause or point of suspension of the whole sample).

The work of art as a prosthetic reality needed urgent intervention, and therefore assumed to be artificial reality in the intrinsic meaning of Deus ex Machina, stands and transformer body, and involves, among other bullrings, strongly believe in the ability to change the world with the human forces when they dress superhuman, as in the case concerns the area of art. But ultimately, you can make a prosthesis almost all members and elements of a human body, and even almost all nature, except for the skull, which admits of no removal. To the heart can be replaced, even an artificial one, a coronary stent, but not the skull that contains the brain that contains or turn all thoughts. The skull is not supported prosthesis is removed or integer, and then we'll be talking about another (usually dead), or not removed, and therefore not worth in today prosthesis approach.

There prosthesis shaped cassock, and there are people who feel their brain as if it were a prosthetic although, as stated above, this is not possible. Andy's foray into this complex dialectical Planos area, collecting the dregs of memory (their school experience in the company of priests) and linking it to their subsequent relationship with prosthetic (through the world of artistic creation, artisan baking ceramics and relationship with a surgeon friend and really dangerous), has led to a very strong and suggestive open work, full of twists and narrative and symbolic layers, unsuspected plastic folds, finally, one booming construction and dense, which has just begun to grow.