The Museu d'Art Modern de Tarragona (MAMT) is transformed, for a few months, into the setting for an artistic journey that defies the rules. The creative force of Mariaelena Roqué is present with the exhibition 'Silenci despullat. UnaDonaUna', a selection of almost fifty works that cover a multidisciplinary career since 1985, when the artist settled definitively in Catalonia. This exhibition, curated by Manel Guerrero , is not limited to a retrospective, it is also a tribute to a creator who combines visual and scenic language, building a work marked by passion and provocation.
Mariaelena Roqué (Tarragona, 1952) has lived between Catalonia and Venezuela and is a creator who is difficult to categorize. Set designer, performer and audiovisual artist, her work is a fusion of art and action where the human body takes center stage. This exhibition at the MAMT, which can be visited until June, combines installations, short films, costume designs, sculptures and photographs.
Mariaelena Roqué durant l'inauguració de la mostra al MAMT.
The exhibition begins with the short film Piedraperla (1985), which also marks the beginning of the collaboration between Roqué and the pianist and composer Carles Santos and would constitute the starting point of the personal language developed by both creators, which led them to create the Companyia Carles Santos . Together, they created an innovative artistic universe, where Roqué assumed the role of costume designer, set designer and director of several performances that left their mark on the contemporary cultural scene.
'Silenci despullat. UnaDonaUna' al MAMT.
Throughout her career, Roqué has explored the limits of conceptual art, always from the perspective of a woman who questions the roles imposed by a patriarchal society. Her works draw on sources as diverse as Romanesque art, European Christian tradition, paganism and Latin American baroque, weaving a discourse where the empowered woman emerges as the central axis. It is an art that celebrates, imbued with rage and sanity, as she herself highlighted in the presentation of the exhibition, and which at the same time invites us to reflect on the human condition.
He is a fundamental figure of the contemporary avant-garde, now more than ever in the midst of an active recovery process thanks to the critical research of Assumpta Rosses , who, as a great connoisseur of his work, has written the volume dedicated to the artist within the Tamarit collection. Roqué's transgressive creations contrast with the permanent pieces of the MAMT, a dialogue that invites us to reconfigure our perceptions of art and its relationship with the body and space.
'Silenci despullat. UnaDonaUna' al MAMT.