Music and painting in Sounds. Musical analogies of the Thyssen Space

New edition of the Carmen Thyssen Collection with the exhibition Sons Analogies Musicals a la Pintura . This event was attended by the mayor of Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Carles Motas, the curator of the exhibition, Pilar Giró, and the chief curator. For this summer season, the Fundació Centre d'Art Guíxols has deployed an exhibition program consisting of three proposals that invite you to discover heritage, contemporary creation and dialogue between disciplines, from a perspective rooted in the territory and open to the world. These three projects are connected through a common story that is: art as a space for shared experience, sensitivity and cultural transformation.

The exhibitions that have been scheduled are: Sounds. Musical analogies to painting. Carmen Thyssen Collection , which is a synesthetic reading of painting that proposes listening to the paintings through color, form and rhythm. The exhibition also includes a special section dedicated to the composer Juli Garreta from Guixols.

• Image exhibition at the Espai Carmen Thyssen in Sant Feliu de Guíxols.

The second exhibition is Dansa Cromàtica. Alex Pallí, homage to Garreta, which is a pictorial installation in the lobby of the Monastery. A kind of sensory entry into the universe of Sons. And the third, is the exhibition entitled “ Gestos Persistents ” from archaeology to the artistic present of Sant Feliu de Guíxols. It is a dialogue between archaeological pieces and contemporary works by Ricardo Campos and Rosa Rosell (Kypsela), Areté d'Empordà, Ana Gutiérrez, Esperança Feixas, Pepa Poch and Quimeta Serra, which claims the continuity of creation over time.

According to sources from the Guixols city council, this exhibition set aims to reaffirm the Foundation's commitment to the dissemination of art and culture, with special attention to the educational community, diverse audiences and links with the landscape, history and local identity.

Sounds, Musical analogies with the Carmen Thyssen collection

Since July 25th, the Espai Carmen Thyssen in Guíxols has been presenting the exhibition Sons. Musical Analogies with the Carmen Thyssen collection, a unique proposal that invites you to “listen” to the painting. It should be remembered that this exhibition was first presented at the Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra and now arrives at the Espai Carmen Thyssen as an example of a living and moving project. Based on a selection of works from the Carmen Thyssen Collection in Barcelona, the public is challenged to perceive the relationships between color, shape and sound, in a sensory journey that transcends the gaze to awaken the auditory dimension.

• Image exhibition at the Espai Carmen Thyssen in Sant Feliu de Guíxols.

The opening of the exhibition in Sant Feliu de Guíxols was held this past Friday at 7:00 pm outside the Plaça del Monestir, with free entry to the exhibition, preceded by a concert of three pieces by composer Juli Garreta (about 20-25 minutes in total), with the Camerata de Música Catalana, conducted by Jofre Bardolet. An institutional parliament was then held, with the attendance of Baroness Carmen Thyssen, her daughter Carmen Thyssen, as well as authorities from the Generalitat, Government, City Council, etc.

The project has been curated by Pilar Giró and organized by the Fundació Centre d'Art Col·lecció Catalana de Sant Feliu de Guíxols, and has the collaboration of the Museu Carmen Thyssen Barcelona, and is committed to an interdisciplinary and immersive reading. The itinerary is built around musical concepts such as Composition, Cadence, Polyphony or Chords, which act as interpretative axes of the selected works.

As a notable novelty, this year's edition includes a section dedicated to Juli Garreta, a leading composer from Guixols, coinciding with the centenary of his death and the one hundred and fifty years since his birth. This section establishes a visual dialogue with his music through works by contemporary Catalan painters such as Urgell, Rusiñol, Meifrèn and Martí Alsina.

• Image exhibition at the Espai Carmen Thyssen in Sant Feliu de Guíxols.

The exhibition has multilingual audio guides (Catalan, Spanish, English and French), which offer an immersive, subtle and sensory narrative experience. As for the sensory journey, you can listen to the music of four composers: Kic Barroc, Lluís Cartes, Lluís Casahuga and Laura García Olalla, who have shaped this sound universe in an initiative promoted by the Carmen Thysssen Museum and the Andorran National Classical Orchestra Foundation (ONCA). These pieces can be listened to in parallel with the visit through a digital system accessible by QR code.

In short, this proposal redefines the visit as a dialogue between the eye and the ear, where painting can be heard and music can be seen.

As for the Kids Space of the Carmen Thyssen Space in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, within the framework of the Sons exhibition, this place becomes a playful and participatory extension of the exhibition, where sound, gesture and color are experienced through play and creativity.

The space has been designed for children aged 3 to 14, with resources adapted to age groups, and with a clear educational and inclusive vocation. The materials are available in Catalan, Spanish and English and are integrated into the school and family visit program. The exhibition will be open to the public until October 12, 2025.