"The poetics of gesture" by Agustí Puig at the Castle of Vila-seca

Two large-format works, created exclusively for the Castle of Vila-seca (Tarragonès), lead the exhibition La poética del gest by the Sabadell artist Agustí Puig. The exhibition, which can be visited until September 17, covers the author's main themes such as the passage of time or the fleeting condition of the human being. He does this through ceramics, sculpture, engraving or drawing. About sixty works are on display, the vast majority newly created. With this, there are already five exhibitions that the facility has hosted at the hands of the Vila Casa Foundation, the result of the agreement they signed at the end of 2019 and which they revalidated at the beginning of this year.

Since the Vila-seca Castle exhibitions have gone hand in hand with the Vila Casa Foundation, the facility has received close to 27,000 visitors, according to Vila-seca Councilor for Culture, Manuel Moya . Of these, 36% are local visitors, 51% come from Catalonia, 11% from the rest of Spain and 3% are foreigners.

From March 24, the joint work continues and will do so through the exhibition of the Sabadell artist Agustí Puig. In addition, Moya has emphasized that it is the first time that Puig shows his works in Camp de Tarragona. For her part, the curator of the exhibition, Natàlia Chocarro, has emphasized that the sixty pieces in the work 'The poetics of the gesture' have nothing to do with the artist's first creations.

"Although the work we know of Agustí Puig in its beginnings was a more sinuous and contained work, in recent years we see a work, practically, of deconstruction of the work of art", he pointed out. The curator has also emphasized that the artist even uses a mechanical saw to elaborate the speech "of a world that vibrates, that is in motion and that gives off energy".

International projection

Chocarro has also remarked on the uniqueness of Puig and has assured that he is "one of the creators who has the most international projection at present", since his works have aroused "a lot of interest in the American market". Finally, Agustí Puig has described himself as a man of few words and has pointed out that "everything he had to say, he has already said by painting".