The Miguel Marcos Gallery hosts 'Espais dibuixats' by Josep Miàs, an exploration of the relationship between drawing and space through forms that defy fixation. The lines of the drawing are transformed into three-dimensional structures, into constructions, into objects in transit.
This exhibition shares a personal, almost secret space, the space of freedom that exists in the very act of drawing. Lines on paper, which abandon this condition to relate to space, where, far from wanting to represent anything, they seek to establish spatial relationships through geometry. They are objects that result from constructing lines in the air, of the same thickness as the pencil stroke that had fixed them on the paper; lines that recognize themselves, or each other, simply by affinity. By overlapping, they may, perhaps, suggest passable places; other times, most of them will simply have no purpose.
Its reality is no longer found on paper, nor in the real world. These lines do not want to be, nor suggest an identifiable space, but rather express this space of doubt, a space of freedom, in short.
Marcos Cruz, architect and professor of Innovative Environments at the London Bartlett School of Architecture, highlights that "Miàs's work is imbued with a harsh authenticity and very unusual strength, but it also has a formal eccentricity that those with a more minimalist pedigree find overtly complicated and even arrogant. Josep expresses in his design an uncompromising strength that is inherently defiant and disobedient against the mundanity and repetition in our lives."
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Josep Miàs (Banyoles, Girona, 1966), sculptor, architect and professor of Architectural Practice at the London Bartlett School of Architecture. He graduated as an architect in 1992 from ETSAB_UPC. In 2020, the Centre Pompidou in Paris recognized his international relevance, dedicating a monographic room to him at the museum with the title Unpredictable Traces (Paris, September 2020 - October 2021), and acquiring his works for the Permanent Collection. In 2022, the Government of Catalonia and the City Council of Barcelona honored his international achievements with the monographic exhibition The Making of Making (Architecture) (Barcelona, November 2021 - January 2022), at the Museum of Design and Architecture of Barcelona.
In 2024, the American Institute of Architects awarded him the title of Honorary AIA Fellow 2024 for his “exceptional work and contribution to architecture and society internationally.”