Exhibitions
Mari Chordà brings The Pleasure Revolution to Espai Guinovart
It is one of the essential exhibitions of the moment with the intimate revolution of Chordà in Agramunt.
The revolution of pleasure is the title of the new exhibition by Mari Chordà (Amposta, 1942) at the Espai Guinovart in Agramunt. An exhibition tour inaugurated on July 20 and which can be seen until November 23 with a selection of paintings focused on the exploration of the body, but which will also have a direct relationship with desire and feminine sensuality.
Mari Chordà has created an exhibition with works from several decades, with the characteristic curved shapes and vibrant palettes that build the artist's imagination, but there is also evidence of Chordà's feminist struggle in a repressive context.
Photography: Albert Malet, courtesy of Espai Guinovart Agramunt.
This exhibition invites you to delve into the work of an innovative artist who, since the 1960s, broke with the norms of an oppressive society to investigate, with striking sincerity, feminine sensuality from a personal and emancipatory point of view. Mari Chordà is one of the pioneers in feminist art and always creates art that goes hand in hand with social action.
Assumpta Bassas explains how "Chordà's boldness lies not only in what she paints, but in how and when". An exhibition at Agramunt and the Espai Guinovart that takes over from the great exhibition of Mari Chordà… y muchas otras cosas at MACBA in 2024. Image, language and social commitment constitute the pillars of Mari Chordà's work and are deeply intertwined with her life trajectory: the artist, the writer and poet, and the activist merge into an inseparable unity that shapes a way of being and convictions that run through both her creative production and her biography.
Photography: Albert Malet, courtesy of Espai Guinovart Agramunt.
Now is the time for The Revolution of Pleasure . To stop at every detail of this temporary exhibition, with the curved elements, full of color and shapes that are so protagonists in her creations. She invites the eye to understand art as an indispensable space of pleasure and revolution. She makes the exploration of femininity and corporeality explicit like few others, but she also has a feminist commitment, she creates from the fusion of disciplines, combining authenticity and expressiveness with intense color and organic shapes.
Photography: Albert Malet, courtesy of Espai Guinovart Agramunt.
