"Posidonia" by Carles Bros, at the Mediterranean Museum

Since January, you can visit the temporary exhibition of Carles Bros Posidònia in the Baix Ter Space of the Museum of the Mediterranean in Torroella de Montgrí.

This exhibition has a set of sculptures that represent the submerged plant, on the one hand, and the forms that the dry leaves of the plant take when they are turned into spheres by the action of the waves on the other. The first sculpture is a soft, agile and volatile work, and delicate like the plants at the bottom of the sea. The second is a set of sculptures in the form of spheres made with recycled materials, disused copper and iron wires. Spheres with transparencies and contrasts, the result of hand-curved wires that evoke a smooth and harmonious movement. The sculptures are complemented by various works, paintings and collages, which show the different stages in the life of the posidonia, and the whole marine ecosystem of species to whom it gives protection.

Posidonia is one of the most important plants in the Mediterranean. Contrary to what many people think, it is not an algae, but a plant with roots, with a stem, that makes a flower and bears a fruit. An endemic species of the Mediterranean Sea whose presence is a symptom of clean waters. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most threatened plants in our sea.

Carles Bros, an artist who has made the sea and the defense of traditional fishing his creative habitat, has found one of these treasures in the posidonia. This aquatic plant, as full of history and legends as it is unknown, is the protagonist of its exhibition at the Mediterranean Museum, where it gives new life to posidonia, transforming it into pigment, into collage, into copper. It gives it plasticity and movement and turns it into an artistic object from different sculptures and paintings.

Carles Bros (Terrassa, 1956 - Girona, 2023), photographer, painter and sculptor, started in the artistic world at an early age when he studied and worked with his mother Joaquima Solanes, an artist-painter. He received his academic training at the University of Girona and the Real Cercle Artístic de Barcelona, where he trained in curatorial studies and cultural management. He has held more than 150 individual exhibitions in Europe and Asia and is invited to exhibit by governments of different countries and by institutions and museums. Since 2010, Carles Bros has been the promoter, director and curator of the contemporary art exhibition "Festival Tramuntanaart".

In 2012, he received the Catalan Fisheries Medal from the Generalitat de Catalunya in appreciation of the defense, throughout the world, of sustainable fishing in Catalonia. He is also the holder of the Sala Parés Young Painting Award (Barcelona), the First Begur Award and the First La Cellera de Ter Award.

The Museum of the Mediterranean and sustainability

Posidonia is an exhibition with which the Museum of the Mediterranean works in line with what was approved in the Strategic Plan 2021 - 2025. It states that part of the Museum's mission is to join, with its actions, to the efforts to combat the climate and ecological emergency and promote the goals of sustainable development.

On this occasion, through artistic expression, the Museu de la Mediterrània is advancing in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG2030).
According to sources from the organization: "this exhibition is to be claimed as an opportunity to bring this plant closer to society and warn about the serious danger it is in, as well as the multiple threats that our sea suffers in general."

The exhibition can be visited until May 1, 2023.