Josep M. Garcia
Crossroads
Most Lleida art institutions are in the public sphere .For this reason, private born and grown entities are one remarkable enrichment as platforms that become less required of consensus.
If, in addition, they have physical exhibition space, eventually develop a public service with the ability to formulate a conceptual identity entirely free .
The creation and opening of Teresa Vall Palou Foundation must be assessed under this exceptional vision . An enthusiastic vocation for painting allows the city of Lleida an space and a foundational structure capable of carrying less usual exhibitions to the city, as has been Ventós collection or the selection of contemporary photography of the Musée d’ Art Moderne Saint Etienne.
Its location, opposite the new building “La Llotja “ widens the territory of the cultural infrastructure of the city and can be a good laboratory to measure the cictyzens interest ability towards contemporary art . Clearly we would say that Vall Palou Foundation has been created to add, not to subtract and under this light should be inserted strongly into the fabric of contemporary culture that drives Lleida . The examples made to go far away from Lleida though a private structure are very clear, when we, for example, think of everything that made the Petite Galerie in the sixties and seventies : a benchmark Catalan contained in all the stories of our art .
Time to time, therefore, to an institution that aspires to have a role in this scene. Since Now through the end of January, the Foundation hosts its third exhibition, dedicated to the work of its founder : Teresa Vall Palou . They are large format works, executed in the years up to the present, where it is clear the author’s efforts to understand its creative path as an artist, which is a declaration of principles at the time we live in, and in a second stadium a reaffirmation of painting as a territory of Abstract Expressionism.
Teresa Vall Palou could argue that does not paint, but the paint paints itself . Its process is to build up layers and layers of paint fluid, until the accident, random or determination tell enough . The paint runs horizontally until the vertical arrangement gives it the category of art work,of painting . This procedure,always followed, is now more obvious by the fact of working with large formats, with paintings on canvas where even construction margins become part of the same work .
The set is important and is the most ambitious shows Teresa Vall Palou has presented ever, including the amount of work and the confidence given by these huge formats . We would say that if one of the functions of the foundation was to reaffirm the meaning of his work, this object has been achieved with no-brainer.
Now is the heaviest part, the part to make this artistic language reach the maximum number of people interested, and do not talk about the amount, but about the need that Lleida has not to show and understand contemporaneity as a rivalry or as an order of preference, but as a clean call in the few attentive to contemporary art .
In this aspect, the Vall Palou Foundation has all the way to go.”
Josep M. Garcia
Art critic
Periódico Segre
If, in addition, they have physical exhibition space, eventually develop a public service with the ability to formulate a conceptual identity entirely free .
The creation and opening of Teresa Vall Palou Foundation must be assessed under this exceptional vision . An enthusiastic vocation for painting allows the city of Lleida an space and a foundational structure capable of carrying less usual exhibitions to the city, as has been Ventós collection or the selection of contemporary photography of the Musée d’ Art Moderne Saint Etienne.
Its location, opposite the new building “La Llotja “ widens the territory of the cultural infrastructure of the city and can be a good laboratory to measure the cictyzens interest ability towards contemporary art . Clearly we would say that Vall Palou Foundation has been created to add, not to subtract and under this light should be inserted strongly into the fabric of contemporary culture that drives Lleida . The examples made to go far away from Lleida though a private structure are very clear, when we, for example, think of everything that made the Petite Galerie in the sixties and seventies : a benchmark Catalan contained in all the stories of our art .
Time to time, therefore, to an institution that aspires to have a role in this scene. Since Now through the end of January, the Foundation hosts its third exhibition, dedicated to the work of its founder : Teresa Vall Palou . They are large format works, executed in the years up to the present, where it is clear the author’s efforts to understand its creative path as an artist, which is a declaration of principles at the time we live in, and in a second stadium a reaffirmation of painting as a territory of Abstract Expressionism.
Teresa Vall Palou could argue that does not paint, but the paint paints itself . Its process is to build up layers and layers of paint fluid, until the accident, random or determination tell enough . The paint runs horizontally until the vertical arrangement gives it the category of art work,of painting . This procedure,always followed, is now more obvious by the fact of working with large formats, with paintings on canvas where even construction margins become part of the same work .
The set is important and is the most ambitious shows Teresa Vall Palou has presented ever, including the amount of work and the confidence given by these huge formats . We would say that if one of the functions of the foundation was to reaffirm the meaning of his work, this object has been achieved with no-brainer.
Now is the heaviest part, the part to make this artistic language reach the maximum number of people interested, and do not talk about the amount, but about the need that Lleida has not to show and understand contemporaneity as a rivalry or as an order of preference, but as a clean call in the few attentive to contemporary art .
In this aspect, the Vall Palou Foundation has all the way to go.”
Josep M. Garcia
Art critic
Periódico Segre