From June 7 to September 8, 1991 (publisher: Paris Museums April 8, 1993)
Here are the prefaces by Hervé Bazin and José Artur
The latest of the great Catalans – Picasso, Dali, Miro and others – whose genius has shaken up the art of our time.
Mentor is named after a sage, but his painting does not reflect it. Less inclined to question himself, to question everything than his illustrious friends and predecessors, he remained more faithful to his origins, more marked by them and invented a different field: that of festive exuberance lived in a climate of violence and derision. For him, the pink flamingo with twisted beak replaces Leda’s swan, the bull willingly guts the picador’s horse, the beauties are as mamelu as they are callipyges and a male wader fowl symbolically hoists itself on endless legs …
The fantasy, here, is rather the resource of the fantasy. With a superb profession, which knows how to be forgotten, Mentor is a transfigurative, if I may say so, whose specialty is to paint dreams.
Herve Bazin
Catalan, Republican Citizen.
Royal Painter
Domestic tyrant
Warm friend Half a century of wrinkle-free painting is already in museums around the world.
Here are three years of creation of this Magnificent painter.
Mentor could do without signing his works. They can only be from him.
Jose artur