Cop de Cor. Claudia Elies
Claudia Elies, Director of La Fabra Centre d’Art Contemporani.
Relevant voices from the art world share the exhibitions they won’t miss at this year’s Barcelona Gallery Weekend — the ones that captured their hearts at first sight.
[1] Bombon Projects – Deixa’t créixer les ales – Josefa Tolrà – Curated by Pilar Bonet
Pilar Bonet has spent a lifetime observing the work of Josefa Tolrà, and each time she has something more to tell us. I’m always drawn to these figures who, like editors, accompany an artist throughout their entire life. I also sense that the dialogue she will create with the work of Eva Fàbregas will be especially interesting.
[2] Chiquita Room – Mari Chordà and Bruno Munari – Curated by Àngels de la Mota.
Because it not only means getting to see Bruno Munari’s work in Barcelona, but we’ll also experience it through the eyes of Àngels de la Mota, who is capable of imagining an encounter between the Italian artist and Mari Chordà.
[3] ethall – El vuelto – Julia Spínola.
The image of the exhibition, somewhere between delocalized and decentralized, gives me that strange feeling that makes me want to keep looking. I also don’t need any excuse to go see whatever Julia Spínola is doing.
[4] Galeria Marc Domènech – Palencia vs. Serzo. Prelude to a III Escuela de Vallecas – Benjamín Palencia and José Luis Serzo.
I am very curious to see those open spaces and barren lands that once inspired so many artists. Places that have now become new urban stages, cleared of old warehouses and re-inhabited by contemporary artists.
[5] Prats Nogueras Blanchard – The architecture of the unbuilt. Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Unrealized Projects – Christo & Jeanne-Claude.
It’s a chance to see what we normally don’t see, what remains buried under a pile of papers in a studio, and and that often only belongs to the intimacy of the artist or his/her narrowest circle. And also because it’s a chance to see –– finally –– the Columbus monument covered.
[6] ProjecteSD – Searching Where There Is Nothing – LUCE.
Just from the title alone, I imagine we’ll be able to discover details of things that have always been there but that we’ve never known how to stop and truly observe. I sense a journey through what goes unnoticed, as if we could become the camera that sometimes LUCE wears on his helmet.
