G. Carbó Berthold and Nobuko Kihira at the Castle of Benedormiens

Benedormiens Castle presents an exhibition by G. Carbó Berthold and Nobuko Kihira from August 3 to September 29. Nobuko Kihira and G. Carbó Berthold are artists with wide trajectories and recognition. Both have worked with various materials, formats and techniques and have had their favourites, but the most remarkable thing is that each one belongs to an artistic culture a priori so far removed from that of the other. While Kihira comes from Nagoya (Japan), Carbó Berthold is from Barcelona, which frames each of the artists established in Cadaqués – they have the Marges-U Gallery there – in a very different imagination from the other.

As Alexandre Roa Casellas writes "this exhibition explores, more than this distance, the space of relationship that is established in spite of everything in the respective works. In fact, it must be said that the distance is not only of geographically distant cultures but, even more relevant, of markedly different artistic disciplines. While Carbó Berthold develops his work centrally in the pictorial register, Kihira's main form of creation is engraving, two areas marked by different procedural, material and visual conditions approach to the creative task. However, we find in his works ties and points of union, the relationship with nature or the chromatic treatment of his works. [...] While Nobuko Kihira collects l 'experience of light and the Emporda environment and transfers it to a language that mixes Japanese tradition and contemporaneity, G. Carbó Berthold approaches the minimalism also typical of the Japanese tradition and applies it in a format and a tradition inherited from the Catalan avant-gardes of the second half of the last century. The relationships and dialogues that are established between both artists grow with the repeated contemplations, from the sought-after texture to the use of ranges rather linked to the organic environment and the earth, passing through an awakened creative attitude, in constant evolution but always consistent and consistent with the legacy."