Retrospective of Cesc Abad

As if it were the chapters of a life, the FACT in Terrassa, in collaboration with the Alzueta Gallery and co-curated by Júlia Abad, art history student; Ricard Planas, editor of Bonart magazine, and Mònica Marañón, art historian, present a retrospective of the artist Cesc Abad from Terrasse. The exhibition includes different stages or chapters of his artistic career, the common thread of which will be the vital axis of his own experience.

The first part of the exhibition is framed under the title Father, and shows the beginnings of his artistic life. The viewer can see an easel, a gift from the artist's father in 1989 that symbolizes how it gives him the possibility to start forging a career and with which Cesc Abad experiences his relationship with nature under the influence of the artists of the Catalan landscape school. The Wall begins with the sudden death of his father and shows the stage in which his artistic output was hidden behind a wall that divided, both physically and metaphorically, his business life from his creative life.

The death of his father means that what his father gave him a few years ago was taken from him. Taking over the family business involves leading a life far removed from his artistic and creative ideals. At this moment the artist focuses on creating pieces of life from the forests of the Catalan Pyrenees, showing the deep world of insects, with a constant communication between the animals' den and the outside world. After many years of hiding his most creative side, he decides to make the wall disappear to show the world that what he painted was no longer a secret. Finally, he had conquered the right to freedom, which is the name that precedes the next part of the exhibition, where Cesc Abad incorporates the human being into his canvases. The characters of this series accompany the viewer to guide him, like a cicerone, through the heart of the woods and show him the spicy, suggestive, funny, satirical, acidic and even surreal stories that Cesc Abad proposes. The Uffizi section wants to show the ceramist facet of Cesc Abad, offering a space that will represent his new office, his new office, stripped of all connotations other than that of creativity and plastic expression. Here we can enjoy ceramics that, far from being an archaeological discovery, are an iconographic discovery with multiple figures and readings, accompanied by a very special color palette that gives his works an infinite number of visions and interpretations. To end the exhibition, and under the title The lost art of keeping a secret, the viewer will be able to enjoy his most unprecedented and shocking work. With large, medium and small format pieces, Cesc Abad delights us with works where he deploys a whole series of techniques such as shading, impasto and drawing, showing what is called "craft", and where they fit works that reinterpret the classics of the Renaissance with the feeling and hope of today's man.