BGW. La campana cósmica y el aire que respira. Dionis Escorsa

In ‘La campana cósmica y el lago que respira’, Dionis Escorsa (Tortosa, 1970) critically recovers the nineteenth-century bourgeois landscape imaginary, to elaborate a fictional autobiography framed in the Catalan patriarchal heritage.

Starting from a painting of the bell tower of Tavèrnoles -a small village near Vic- painted by his grandfather almost a century ago, he has developed -together with Albert Merino- a 3D videomapping that alters in real time the atmosphere of the watercolor and turns it into a clock and a device for meteorological consultation.

This methodology is expanded -through an immersive installation of large oil-painted panels- to the semi-submerged bell tower of Sau -neighbor and brother of that of Tavèrnoles- whose water level is also projected covering the painting.

In these and other pieces, Escorsa performs an exercise of stylistic appropriation that allows him to continue painting as if he were his grandfather, seeking to recognize himself not only in his art but also in the devotion he had for astronomy and to discover his own affinities or repulsions with the mystical-religious culture of that time that may still underlie the present.