Exhibitions
Dionis Escorsa in RocioSantaCruz: a critical and poetic rereading of the landscape and family memory
The artist is exhibiting for the first time at RocioSantaCruz and is doing so as part of Barcelona Gallery Weekend.
Multiple relationships and crossroads when the gaze is directed to the work of Dionís Escorsa where he links representation, space, light and spectral character. The multidisciplinary artist from Tortosa, creates The cosmic bell and the lake that breathes at RocioSantaCruz from September 18 to November 22.
For the first time, Dionis Escorsa presents his work at the gallery, as part of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend . This exhibition reveals the artist's sustained interest in investigating forms of visual representation and their relationship with the elements that shape aesthetic experience. Escorsa invites us to a critical and at the same time poetic rereading of landscape and family memory, conceived not as static or closed archives, but as living territories, in constant transformation, susceptible to being rewritten, intervened in and revisited from new sensibilities and contemporary perspectives.
Dionis Escorsa, The Tallest Flower, 2025.
Dionis Escorsa's artistic practice is characterized by a subtle fusion between traditional techniques —such as painting and drawing— and the tools of contemporary technologies. This combination gives rise to a rich and suggestive visual poetics, in which matter and light become essential protagonists. His works are often deployed in enveloping environments, where reflections, shadows and atmospheres configure a delicate scenography that transcends simple aesthetic contemplation. These spaces, formed halfway between physical presence and perceptual transience, challenge the viewer from a double dimension: on the one hand, they activate the senses through textures, lights and visual rhythms; on the other, they evoke deep layers of emotional memory, opening intimate paths of recognition and suggestion.
The lake that breathes, 2025, In collaboration with Albert Merino.
"I spent my entire childhood under the painting of a bell tower that hangs in my parents' dining room. A few months ago I asked them if I could take it with me so that the bells could be heard and it would become a clock again. Now even the day passes there and you can see in real time the same weather as in Tavèrnoles, the small town on the outskirts of Vic where my grandfather painted it almost a century ago," explains Dionis Escorsa.
Dionis Escorsa delicately intertwines the intimate sphere with the historical context, weaving a profound reflection on memory, representation and the processes of transmission between generations. Through this dialogue between the personal and the collective, his work transcends the limits of individual experience to open up to shared meanings, where the particular experience is transformed into a narrative with universal resonance.
Dionis Escorsa, The tallest flower, 2025.
“The series of watercolors of The Tallest Flower starts from painting a copy as perfect as possible of the original bell tower, to gradually vary it. All together they form a landscape with a continuous horizon and sequential reading that fictionalizes a patriarchal genealogy and allows us to visualize the portrait of my father (at the same time grandfather and self-portrait) ringing the seed-bells inside the bell tower-flower”, Dionis Escorsa.
