Exhibitions
Summary Astral: the cosmos and the poetics of Brossa
An artistic journey through Brossian poetics.
Sumari Astral is the collective exhibition that occupies the Centre de les Arts Lliures of the Fundació Joan Brossa and is presented as an invocation to the invisible, a meeting space between artists who explore the relationship between what we see and what we only intuit. Inspired by the posthumous poetry of Joan Brossa, the exhibition delves into the symbolic games and imperceptible forces that shape our world.
This exhibition invites you to immerse yourself in the magic within contemporary art, to investigate how it manifests itself in current artistic practices and how it dialogues with Brossa's heterogeneous and eclectic legacy. Curated by Caterina Almirall with the collaboration of Claudia Elies , it brings together for the first time at the Foundation the work of thirteen contemporary artists who, from different languages, interpret this transformative essence. Anna Dot , Enric Farrés , André Româo , Luz Broto , Magda Bolumar , Itziar Okariz , Eulàlia Rovira , Cristina Mejías , Fuentesal Arenillas , Lúa Coderch , Esther Ferrer , Aldo Urbano and Martín Vitaliti shape a dialogue between art and mystery.
Each piece on display establishes a link with Brossa's verses, occupying a precise place within his poetics. This configures a dynamic and delicate structure, where the works are organized in a fragile balance that plays with the distribution of bodies in space, in an almost impossible attempt to straighten out the cosmos. According to Maria Canelles , director of Visual and Textual Arts at the center, "this is a collective exhibition with top-level, intergenerational and international artists, who start from the most magical Brossa poetics."
The proposal, however, goes beyond the exhibition hall and is deployed in various formats. Over the coming months, the public will be able to enjoy a program of activities with performances, conferences and screenings, where artists such as Mariona Naudin , Quim Pujol and Marc Vives will challenge the perception of reality through action and the body. In September, a book will be published that will collect reflections and creative processes of artists such as Irene Solà , Ignasi Aballí , Oriol Sauleda , Pedro G. Romero and Pilar Bonet , among others. This publication culminates an investigation led by Almirall that connects disciplines and generations.
This initiative comes to close the third quarter of the Center for Liberal Arts, blurring the boundaries between the tangible and the intangible. Looking towards Brossa's past, Sumari Astral also projects itself towards the future, inviting us to rethink art as a tool to alter the perception of the world and play with the order and apparent logic of things, as Brossa himself did.
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