1st edition of the Bescanó 2022 Emerging Art Capsule

The 2022 Emerging Art Capsule will be officially inaugurated next Sunday, April 3, at 12:30 pm in the Rosa Maria Cabré classrooms in Bescanó.
The main objective of this group exhibition is to encourage and support the professionalization of young creators in the province of Girona and throughout Catalonia. The event coincides with the celebration of the traditional fair of the Embotit de Bescanó 2022 and it is for this reason that Jaume Fàbrega i Colom has been invited to give a lecture on art and gastronomy at 1 p.m. and will be entitled "The art of food and food as art: 5,000 years of history." The conference will consist of two parts, the first The Art of Food, will be discussed from the performances of hunting, honey harvesting, etc. from Prehistory to Barceló. While the second part, Food as Art, will refer to Tirant lo Blanc, the Chinese basket, the Russian buffet and the tea and Japanese art ceremony. At the end of the talk, attendees will have a round of prayers and questions at Jaume Fàbrega.

The aim of the organization is to attract professionals and lovers of the art world, as well as to bring the usual public who normally visit the Bescanó Sausage Fair and to be able to give them the opportunity to enjoy this exhibition. collective and at the same time be able to participate in the conference on art and gastronomy, which gives added value to this event.

The art capsule has been organized by Bescanó City Council together with curators Xavier Santos (Artisticus) and Alexandra Planas (cultural manager), who have been responsible for recruiting and selecting the artists participating in this edition. The group exhibition can be visited in the church of Sant Llorenç de Bescanó throughout the day and the participating artists are: Rocayats, Alfons Gil, Mohammed er Rabehy, Jordi Bofill, Pia Crozet, Narcis Bosch, Edgar Massegu, Monika Grygier and Iolanda Claveras.

It should be remembered that two years ago, on March 29, 2020, the first edition of the Bescanó Emerging Contemporary Art Fair, FACE Bescanó, had to be canceled due to the pandemic. The Councilor for Culture of Bescanó City Council, Carles Genoher, explained that “the Bescanó City Council expects this first edition to be very successful with a large number of people in attendance, who will be able to enjoy the pieces of art , which will be exhibited in a place that is as emblematic as the church of Sant Llorenç in the municipality "and added that" this capsule of art is the result of a fair that was born two years ago but we had to to cancel the Covid-19 and in the end we were able to organize a small exhibition that aims to be the prelude to the 2023 Emerging Contemporary Art Fair ”. Genoher also wanted to emphasize that “it has taken a short time to be able to manage this event but I am very proud that in the end we have been allowed to do so and I encourage emerging artists from the province of Girona to come and visit. us this Sunday and sign up for the next call for the 2023 fair ”.

For their part, the curators of the exhibition Santos i Planas have stated that "this exhibition aims to promote the subject of collecting in an affordable and accessible way" and have stressed that "the raison d'être of this exhibition is to create a space for the exchange of experiences between the different participating artists and the audience ”.

Visiting hours at the exhibition are 10 am. in the morning at 7 p.m. in the evening.