ISABEL BANAL AND THE POETICS OF ARTISTS’ BOOKS

ISABEL BANAL AND THE POETICS OF ARTISTS’ BOOKS
A conversation between Glòria Picazo and Isabel Banal

Thursday 26/2/26
From 6.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
At the Pilarín Bayés Library

With Isabel Banal and Glòria Picazo, artist and curator of the exhibition ARRAN DE TERRA

Free activity, open to the general public. No prior registration is required.

Since 1991 Isabel Banal has taken a profound interest in artist’s books and publications in the widest sense, from postcards, to objects, to graphic work.

Isabel Banal and the poetics of artists’ books is a literary encounter to discuss the diversity of projects carried out along this line of work throughout her career.

Glòria Picazo will begin the event with an  introduction to the role of artist’s books in contemporary art, followed by Isabel Banal presenting her books, which are currently on display at the Biblioteca Pilarin Bayés in Vic.

Artist books on display:

– Bugada. Carta Blanca I. Correspondència Isabel Banal-Bea Espejo, 2003-2025. La Panera, Lleida, 2025.
– Anar a marina. Edicions ARBAR, La Vall de Santa Creu (El Port de la Selva), 2025.
– El llibre dels passos perduts. Chiquita ediciones, Barcelona, 2020.
– A la manera de les Danaides. Olot Cultura, Ajuntament d’Olot, 2019.
– Paisatge amb barques. Mercè Soler edicions, Barcelona, 2018.
– D’albades i postes. Càtedra Joan Vinyoli de poesia contemporànea. UdG, 2013.
– De visita obligada I.  Academia de España en Roma, 2013.
– De visita obligada III. Academia de España en Roma, 2013-14.
– La maleta [blava] de W.B. Ed.  Crani-Museu de l’Exili, Ajuntament Portbou, 2011.
– Invitació a fer un paisatge.  Autoedició, Nadal 1997.
– Paisatge. Fundació Tharrats d’Art Gràfic, Pineda de Mar, 1991

Isabel Banal. Visual artist and teacher at the Escola Massana. Isabel Banal explores  landscape, nature, and everyday life through common materials and objects. The colour white, miniaturisation,  a representation of rural life, and the nativity scene form central elements of her work, in which attention, silence, and subtlety generate a dialogue between art and life.

Glòria Picazo. Bachelor in Art History. She is an independent critic and curator. She has collaborated with leading museums and art centres and directed the Centre d’Art la Panera (2003–2015). She has taught university courses in contemporary art and curatorship.