Counterpastoral. Art and Farming

In literature, painting or other artistic manifestations, the pastoral genre is what idealizes peasant, farmer life. The bucolic vision of the Catalan rural world, often constructed from the cities, has originated an often mistaken and distorted imagination of a reality much more complex than we imagine. In this exhibition, the complexities of the country’s peasant reality are highlighted through visual representations of the rural contexts of Catalonia from the end of the 19th century to the present day. The exhibition is organized in different areas where historical works dialogue with current pieces, creating counterpoints and tensions (pastoral counterpoints) that allow us to see, through art, an almost anthropological, yet critical, evolution over the last 150 years of a part of the Catalan rural world.

Curator: Pau Minguet