Àlex Nogué, Jordi Puig and Víctor Sunyol inaugurate "No Exit"

The temporary exhibition by Àlex Nogué, Jordi Puig and Víctor Sunyol No Exit was inaugurated on 25 June at 7.30 pm. The Costa Brava from north to south on tourist cruises at the Municipal Museum of Tossa de Mar.

Prior to the inauguration, the project was presented on board the ship Dofi Jet. The artists themselves were present at the event to explain their exhibition and the town's mayor, Ramon Gascons i Tarrés.

Ramon Gascons pointed out that "after these two strange years, we wanted to make an exhibition derived from a unique project and NO EXIT really is" and added that "tourist boats are part of our collective memory for many years. We like that these three artists have found the poetics of a tourist activity in addition to not being able ”.

This exhibition and the project talks about the tourist boat trip that made the route through the coves of Cap de Creus and that made the artist Àlex Nogué, the photographer Jordi Puig, and the poet Víctor Sunyol in 2019 on the beach of Cadaqués.

For five days, without a goal set by the artists, they made trips on family cruises along the Costa Brava to Blanes, mingling with tourists, taking walks through the villages they were meeting and resting and sleeping in hotels.

The art historian and researcher, Glòria Bosch, who also presented the event, commented that in recent days she has been working on a text by Rafael Benet, one of the founders of the Municipal Museum of Tossa de Mar in 1935 and since another perspective he wrote many pages about the Costa Brava, tourism and paradise lost, which would become this idea of NO EXIT, translated into Catalan as "no way out".

According to Bosch, “many things come into play in this exhibition that is presented today, but one of the most important is the idea of questioning myths, clichés, established codes, in short, paradise lost. It would be a way of linking nature and human beings, who appear in a new set of thresholds because in a way the discovery is drawn and combined with the loss ”.

Glòria Bosch also wanted to focus on the point that we want to “break the limits that cut the condition of possibility. Always leave open paths and run away from coded circles, to grow in connections. It’s as simple as saying you need to be more open to the world. Another thing that amazes me is that artists embark on the adventure with nothing planned unlike what conventional tourists do who have it all stipulated and organized while traveling and often miss what they could actually absorb. They act like tourists in a free way ”.

Another relevant point of the show is the theme of space. Especially being able to appreciate how the space is transformed to reach a sound and visual line that the artists have made, each in a very different way.

According to Bosch, “this project is very important to me as we are talking about another traffic space and I invite the viewer to transform with the gaze everything you see.

To highlight how the artists have played with anonymity, when entering the cruise and have mixed with a whole set of anonymous people and have done this kind of intimate process, which is based on the mood that being each person ”.

To summarize what each artist has chosen to present this project, Glòria Bosch summed up “Àlex has sought the sea as an incorporeal distance and the symbols of navigation; Jordi has been interested in the route of the coast and the people (the most material part) and Víctor has moved more between immateriality as he has collected the voice that is immaterial, these infinite layers of sound, to stretch the words of the journey projected, dreamed and realized ”.

The exhibition can be visited throughout this summer from Monday to Sunday from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 20:00.

Reforms in the Municipal Museum of Tossa de Mar.

The NO EXIT exhibition coincides with the will that the Toss council has begun to carry out to get the Municipal Museum of Tossa de Mar back into the network of museums in Girona. It should be remembered that in 2016 he was expelled and reduced to the category of "collection" following an inspection by the Department of Culture for non-compliance with regulations.

The Municipal Museum of Tossa de Mar is considered the oldest museum of contemporary art in Spain, as it was inaugurated in 1935 and is currently carrying out a series of reforms to regain its category. museum, such as repairing roofs, installing an elevator, etc ...

The city of Tossa de Mar has recently confirmed that it plans to allocate a total of 1,254,847 euros in three years to make a change of model focused on culture and sustainability, as it has been selected for the program of sustainability plans tourist in destinations. The reforms and adaptation of the Municipal Museum of Tossa de Mar will be one of the main actions that will be carried out.