'Medina Campeny, a lived trajectory' at Espai Isern Dalmau

Espai Isern Dalmau inaugurates Medina Campeny, a lived trajectory, an exhibition that celebrates Madina Campeny's eighty years in full activity at a key moment in her career: when the placement of the four sculptures in which she has been working since 2016 for the towers of the four evangelists of the Sagrada Família.

Medina Campeny, a lived trajectory, curated by Ricard Planas, has time as its guiding thread, and collects a trajectory, a whole life, while recreating the artist's studio.

The art of three-dimensionality quickly subsumes him within an abstraction of constructivist roots and in the irrational world of surrealist ancestry. Critical and ironic at the same time, he is nourished by avant-garde movements such as Dadaism, although he never renounces his indigenous language. The extraordinary mastery of the drawing technique, the fact of knowing how to harmonize monumentality and landscape, the indissoluble relationship between organic elements taken from nature and geometric shapes, as well as the introduction of the fragment as an indispensable element of reformulation, open us new paths and perspectives within an inexhaustible source of expression of innovative ideas and thoughts.

Medina Campeny has always been a sculptor by vocation, self-taught, possessing a rich baggage of life experiences that pass through some pivotal moments, such as the coincidence of his trip to Lyon for an exhibition at the Marcel Michaud gallery, with the revolts of May 1968 or his fifteen-year stay in New York. An accumulation of experiences that has translated into a specific modus operandi. An opportunity to discover that in his work what it suggests is often more important than what it represents.

The exhibition can be visited from Wednesday 20 September during opening hours, but the official opening will take place on Wednesday 27 September, at 7 pm.