Chance has it that every twenty years Claudi Casanovas exhibits at the Museu de la Garrotxa. Mater is the result of the work done by the artist during the last three years. Sculptures that, protected from the weather and welcomed in the dim light of room 2 of the museum, are mirrored in the engravings that show the persistence of memory. Outside, three telluric sculptures from the previous series The garden of the full moon . The video projection by the Chinese filmmaker and ceramist Ayu Tan complements the exhibition with the subjective interpretation of the work of Claudi Casanovas.
Inspired by the visionary Angela Volpini and the Venus of Willendorf, he immerses himself in the search for the origin, the embryo. In what makes us unique, in singularity and essence, in the persistence of the unmodifiable core. The embryonic growth of the fertile piece, the sphere of the cosmos in five expanding, extroverted, effervescent sculptures that, appropriating the light, are transformed with the fire and, at the same time, the artist's longing in the search of the piece permanently incandescent as an apparition of Volpini.
The need to approach the luminosity of Volpini breaks patterns in a creative process that Claudi Casanovas had never experienced. Poured in search of transparency uses white, not to add, but to erase.
Mater are sculptures made of spheres with individual entities that, despite the transformation, are a world in themselves. Like the person who transforms without changing the intrinsic value that determines him as a unique and singular being.
A shared space with five etchings that take the sculptures as a model. Creation back and forth with the need to witness what was. The memory, the imprint, the palimpsest of what has disappeared.
The room, as a space of refuge for pieces in constant modification, and the cloister, the space that welcomes introspection. The three pieces of El jardí de la luna plena culminate the artist's need to search for other registers. Suitable to withstand the weight of the weather, Claudi Casanovas wants to give voice to the specificity of the material. Pebbles emerging from the earth referring to William Tucker's definition of sculpture: "A sculpture is etymologically what we put right."
Claudi Casanovas, interested in the spontaneous and organic growth and durability of ceramics, conceives work with non-ephemeral media as a response to the yearning for transcendence. A creative process with a Bach and Duo soundtrack that helps curate the piece. Sculptures from a series different from the previous one and the one to come, because the creative process, according to Casanovas, can vary in another creative moment.
It is with the truth of the now that we will remain expectant to the truth of the embers of a new fire.
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