Current exhibitions
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Pere Bellès. GeometricsFrom April 30 to July 30, 2021
Opening: Thursday, April 29, at 7 pm. Curator: Pilar Parcerisas Man’s footprint on the ground is geometrically shaped. Fields, cities, buildings, communications take geometry as a foundation. Pere Bellès conceptualizes the territory. It is based on the plots that architects and urban planners have drawn up on a map to define their space for action. Lately, his walking or running journeys have been incorporated into his geometric thinking. His work, he says, “is based on the search for traces left by man on the territory where he has lived throughout history.» Pere Bellès is the author of M1 IFT LLD (Mural1 InFrastrucTures LLeiDa), a public art project for the city of Lleida on the walls of the Fundació Vallpalou, on Avinguda Tortosa. |
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Joseph Beuys. ManresaFrom April 30 to July 30, 2021
Opening: Thursday, April 29, at 7 pm. Curator: Pilar Parcerisas In the mid-1960s and within the framework of the FLUXUS movement, Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) found the possibility of turning the art system upside down as an artistic discipline. Art could be an instrument for changing man and the world, but for that it was necessary to expand its narrow margins and enlarge its concept: all of Beuys ’actions were important in expanding the old concept of art. The action MANRESA by Beuys had its spiritual substratum in Ignatius of Loyola, which the artist read and reread during his spiritual crisis in the late fifties. The demonstration action MANRESA, executed at the Schmela Gallery in Düsseldorf on 15.12.1966, with the collaboration of the Danish artists Henning Christiansen and Björn Nörgaard, opens its doors in Beuys, following the example of Loyola, to the evolution of his work towards social sculpture. Photographs, Walter Vogel ↓ Postal |
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Pere Bellès. GeometricsFrom April 30 to July 30, 2021
Opening: Thursday, April 29, at 7 pm. Curator: Pilar Parcerisas The MANRESA Hbf action carried out in the city of Manresa on November 4, 1994 by the composer and musician Henning Chistiansen and the sculptor Björn Nörgaard, artists of Danish origin and close collaborators of Joseph Beuys in the 1966 MANRESA action maintains the spiritual substratum of this action-demonstration and also that of Loyola in Manresa. Christophe Charles and Friedhelm Mennekes collaborated. The MANRESA Hbf action was a visit to the original energy source by two mediating artists and coaches of this northsouth journey on the continent of Eurasia. The two artists created a script that followed spaces on the Ignatian route of Manresa and turned a FLUXUS action into a Via Crucis with six stations or stops in homage to Joseph Beuys and Ignatius of Loyola. Photographs, Joan-Esteve Guillamet ↓ Postal |
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Pere Bellès. M1 IFT LLD (Mural1 InFrastrucTures LLeiDa)From November 13, 2020 - July 30, 2021
Opening: Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 12 pm. Curator: Pilar Parcerisas In this project, designed for Lleida, the artist has worked on the idea of flow, movement, a concept of the city-region that goes from the city as a protective shell to the diffuse city. This project has been inspired by the junctions of the roads connecting the Lleida railway infrastructures that appear in the Municipal Plan that includes the following stations: Torres-Salsas Station, Segre Station Polygon, Lleida-Pirineos Station and Lleida Station – September the 11th. In his work, the artist looks for the movement arteries of the territory flow and close or expand them in themselves as neighborhood units. His capacity for dialogue with the physical and territorial space converts urban planimetries, architectural projects and cartographic maps into abstract compositions with the appearance of ideograms close to neoplastic abstraction. |
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