Bonaventura Anson and Gil Granero at Calonge Castle

From this past Saturday, August 5, you can visit the temporary exhibition Myths and Seas by Bonaventura Ansón and Planeta Nostrum by Margarita Gil Granero at Calonge Castle. These two temporary exhibitions were inaugurated on Saturday 5 August at 19:30 in the evening at Calonge Castle with the presence of the mayor of Calonge and Sant Antoni, Mr. Jordi Soler i Casals and the artist Margarita Gil Granero.

The Bonaventura Ansón exhibition was presented by Glòria Bosch i Mir, art historian, curator and art critic, and Maguí Noguer, vice president of the Bonaventura Ansón Association. Regarding the exhibition Mites i Mars de l'Ansón, Jordi Soler explained that "the present retrospective is focused exclusively on three themes of the backbone of his body of work, which are mythology, clouds and stakes , and finally his introspective windows. It is in this way that the artist tells us about our Mediterranean origins through Greek myths" and also points out that "the third theme, which is the open, closed, dreamlike barred windows, represent an introspective vision while projecting the artist's particular vision of the outside world". The mayor also wanted to thank the collaboration of Ansón's widow, Titó Juandó, and the B. Anson Foundation. For her part, Glòria Bosch affirms that "in his work he does not collect specific objects through which time has passed but rather wants to represent it as a symbol of a culture that is collapsing.

Look for substitute elements that reduce the visual image to a stone god, a crooked log, a stake, a window, a broken boat, a shipwreck, clouds – with the moon, the stakes, imprisoned or in full fall when they are black, a fragmented sky, a wave – fossil laughter, closed, long bars, some remains, some waves with a taste of salt, which can be long, undulating and fossil or the image of the island of Tossa, which through five pieces online, it marks the sequence of its collapse until it disappears. Over the years, through his series based on different themes, we can build timeless circles in which rootedness in a world in transit is lost, a childhood broken without continuity, but what he has lost goes beyond that. of what people want to see."

Regarding the temporary exhibition of Gil Granero Planeta Nostrum, the poet, cultural manager translator and university professor, Àlex de Susanna comments that "in this exhibition the painter faces issues that until now she had not addressed plastically, such as of the climate emergency and some of its more visible derivatives (melting polar ice, rising temperatures, increasing desertification, rising sea levels, sudden tree death). But it is also equally clear that art is above all a formal inquiry - a resolution of formal tensions - in which we find a series of resources and styles that we recognize as characteristic of his plastic imagination".

According to Susanna "in this exhibition the artist proposes an apparent contradiction which, on the one hand, is an awareness of the main weakness and threat of our world, and on the other, the embodiment and plastic recreation of this problematic through a series of motifs, which challenge us through the work and grace of its own plastic vitality". Some of the featured works in this exhibition are The Arctic and the Shadow of the Trees, Planet Nostrum, Kiribati, The Islands of Lost Dreams series, 1,2,3, Kiribati Trilogy, Australia, etc.

Visiting hours for both exhibits are from Tuesday to Sunday from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at night. Entry is free.