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When the verse unfolds: the plaquette as a miniature exhibition of Art and Word
Artists and poets join hands in a book-exhibition-poem publication curated by Fina Duran, Jesús Galdón and Martina Morittu.
The exhibition Art and Word proposes an intense and delicate journey through the links that unite the world of visual arts with poetic literature. More than an exhibition, it is an open dialogue—an intimate conversation—between two forms of creation that share the same soul: the capacity to move, question, and transform.
Each visual artist who participates in this proposal travels a journey back and forth between their own gaze and the voice of a poet. Through their work, they pay homage to those who master the art of words, establishing a deep connection between written language and plastic language. The result is a living network of interpretations, sensations and complicity.
The names that make up this artistic mosaic come from different generations and sensibilities. Amèlia Riera, Guinovart, Jordi Tolosa, Francesca Llopis, Jesus Galdón, Ester Xargay, David Ymbernon, Mar Arza, Anna Llimós, Gerard Altaió and Lluís Vilà are some of the creators who give visual form to the word.
The poets who inspire them are equally diverse and essential: Salvador Espriu, Joan Oliver, J. V. Foix, Maria Mercè Marçal, Carles Hac Mor, Felícia Fuster, Joan Brossa, Ramon Llull, Vicent Andrés Estellés, Àngels Moreno, Ausiàs March and Jorge Luis Borges. Their voices —classical or contemporary, canonical or radical— take on new life in these visual dialogues, allowing the audience to discover them in a different light.
Art and Word reminds us that art is never an isolated language. When an image meets a verse, when a sculpture breathes poetry, a new way of looking and feeling is born. In this shared space between the eye and the word, art becomes a bridge, and poetry, matter.
Curated by Fina Duran, Jesús Galdón and Martina Morittu, the catalogue remains in the form of a miniature exhibition with a detailed plaquette of Art and Word . It is a faithful version of the exhibition proposal where poem and visual work look at each other and dialogue. There is no hierarchical structure beyond text and image, both drinking from poetry.
This plaquette from Art i Paraula is another piece in the exhibition , with an almost artisanal or collector's character, with a careful artistic design and offering a singular publication as an artistic object. In short, a plaquette is a small editorial gem: a short, careful and often poetic publication, which seeks beauty and expression more than mass commercialization.
Each poem coexists with its visual work within a fold, which unfolds according to the intention: sometimes in the form of a diptych, others as a triptych or even as a quadriptych. These folds have a format designed to be held in the hands. They are light, intimate, portable. When unfolded, they make the word and the image rotate together, suspended in the air, to the rhythm of the movement of the reader-spectator.
Once left on the table, the folds become small ephemeral walls, as if they were fragments of a miniature exhibition. Each new reading and each new fold added builds a living model, a visual and poetic game that progressively unfolds before us. It is as if the exhibition took shape on a reduced scale, converting the gesture of reading and looking into a sculptural action. 13 poets and 12 artists constitute this book-exhibition-poem that accompanies the temporary exhibition of Art and Word.
