Santi Moix puts ceramic light in the "1280.C" installation

Porcelain has long been a material that creation and contemporary creators use with interest and surprising results. Santi Moix from Barcelona, who recently returned to study in Barcelona and who coexists with the one in New York, began researching this technique years ago. His sculptural floral intervention in the church of Saurí became key to entering a world, ceramics, which from Picasso to Barceló has provided incredible objects and which "manage to bring you back to a state of freedom total, with painting it costs me more "admits the same artist. The process for obtaining these works involves a biscuit, a double baking, first at 1020 ° C and in a second stage at 1280 ° C, hence the title of the exhibition. Moix had started walking with some sculptural works in this technique at the Cyprus Art gallery in Sant Feliu de Boada; And the fact that having the Bisbal d'Empordà -and the Terracotta Museum- and the ceramist Joan Raventós nearby have helped to do the rest. The relationship between the latter and Santi Moix is crucial, we could compare it with that of Joan Miró and Josep Llorens Artigas.

Apuleyo's book "The Golden Ass" and its many situations and characters have been, in part, the inspiration for the monumental installation. The large, seven-meter-high porcelain mural is stylistically a multicolored burst of psychedelic-reminiscent pop reminiscences; who doesn't smell like Philip Guston, Damià Escuder or Roy Lichtenstein - and the sculpture "La cara" next to the port of Barcelona? The exhibition is completed by other porcelain sculptures of smaller formats but no less intense. We also find a small series of canvases characteristic of the author with an overflowing energy and visual power.

The process of making these works is the protagonist of the catalog published by the gallery for the exhibition, written by Enmanuel Guigon, director of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona and which leads us through the conception of the large mural. The themes that make up this language could be divided into biomorphic forms that tend to abstraction or geometry, organic forms that come from fauna and flora and others of calligraphic origin.

This exhibition, which can be seen until January 22 at the Marlborough Gallery in Barcelona, sheds more light on a Barcelona season full of good proposals and renewed energy.