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Closing of Art Nou 2025 with the performance of Blanca Tolsá Rovira
On Thursday, September 4, 2025, La Capella de Barcelona hosted the closing ceremony of the Art Nou 2025 festival, the emerging art exhibition organized by Art Barcelona. The event will have a very special central moment: the performance Parafonías , created and performed by the outstanding artist Blanca Tolsá Rovira, accompanied by the performers Pepe Lolo, Berta Pascu and Rodrigo Rammey. The activity will be open to the public and free of charge, offering a unique experience within the festival program.
Parafonías is a proposal that questions the usual coherence between movement and sound, distorting the intuitive relationship between voice and gesture. Inspired by acoustic phenomena such as the perception of a third note when two sound waves of the same frequency are slightly out of phase, the performance generates a strange, yet familiar space that invites curiosity and empathy, opening up a territory where meaning is transformed and made flexible.
Paraphonies
When two sound waves with the same frequency are slightly out of phase with each other, the human ear perceives their friction as a third note. Parafonías proposes a sensitive experience in which the intuitive relationships between movement and sound are distorted and open up a place that is both alien and familiar that stirs our curiosity and empathy. What would happen if, in a communicative act, voice and gesture did not exactly go hand in hand? The intentions of the body or the voice deviate, creating a territory where meaning is questioned and the imaginary is transformed.
Blanca Tolsá Rovira, a graduate of the Professional Conservatory of Dance of the Institut del Teatre and with an initial career as a dancer with IT Dansa, has developed her own career as a creator. In 2021 she premiered her first piece Ecoica , presented at festivals such as Dansa València and Dansa Metropolitana, and in 2024 she developed Parafonías as her second piece during her stay at El Graner. Since 2016, Tolsá has collaborated as a performer with prominent artists and collectives on the contemporary scene, including Lipi Hernández, Ariadna Montfort, Raquel Klein, Robert Zappalà and Magdalena Garzón.
After the performance, the closing ceremony included the presentation of the Art Nou 2025 Award, with the presence of Quico Peinado, president of Art Barcelona; David Armengol, artistic director of La Capella; and Pilar Cruz, director of the festival. This edition of the festival brought together more than 40 artists and 30 exhibitors, offering a complete program that included openings, guided tours, talks, screenings and performances, consolidating Art Nou as a space of visibility and recognition for emerging talent from Barcelona and Hospitalet.
