Within the creative work of artists, historical research is always present. Even more so when it is related to personal and family life. In the case of Ivan Forcadell (Alcanar, Tarragona, 1993), a multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, sculpture, installation, video art and performance, it is not surprising that he surprises us with a new investigation into his origins in the countryside and the close relationship with nature. A commitment already acquired and presented in previous exhibitions where the land is closely linked to the personal and parental sphere. An exploration that serves him to address such a recurring theme as the recovery of historical memory and delve deeper into family ancestry.
The artist rescues from oblivion those objects that bear witness to past existences to give them another meaning. He brings together research on cultivation and generational origin that he conceptualizes in an orderly, methodical and systematic way. Although the natural state seems disordered to us -according to the artist-, in its essence it sustains an invisible arrangement that generally goes unnoticed by us. A romantic feeling is perceived in the artistic sense more IBooklets with reticular pattern leaves preserved by his mother where he wrote down, over the years, the time of sowing, harvesting, irrigation, fertilizers and all that information linked to farming work.
He also talks about the materials used as recovered elements to which he gives new life and a new utility. A visual diary of a lineage to which the artist puts order from materials that apparently seem disorganized. A research that materializes through the data obtained, saved and guarded on small sheets of paper, treated in many cases with watercolors of intense and explosive chromaticism.
Ivan Forcadell links past and present in an imperceptible historical thread. The exhibition he presents at the Factoria de Terrassa, open until January 26, shows us his creative process and the importance that themes such as the rural environment and the artisanal process take on in his work. An intimate and singular work that delves into the corners of experiences and that makes those little things around us worthwhile that transcend the universal.
'Ordenant les arrels' a la Factoria Cultural de Terrassa.