Exhibitions
"Trilogy": three universes in dialogue within the living work of Roser Oliveras Oliver
The exhibition brings together a dialogue between travel, theatricality and introspection at the Valvi Foundation in Girona, and is accompanied by a catalogue converted into a unique, handmade artist's book.
The Valvi Foundation of Girona hosts Trilogy , the new exhibition by the Girona artist Roser Oliveras Oliver, an exhibition that invites the viewer to enter three plastic worlds that, despite their uniqueness, dialogue with each other as parts of the same vital and artistic story. The exhibition, as its title indicates, unfolds in three chapters that reveal different creative stages and emotions that run through Oliveras' work.
The first of these universes is inspired by a trip to Istanbul, a city that the artist transforms into painting, memory and sensory experience. His works evoke the light, textures and colours of this fascinating metropolis, where East and West meet and merge. Through pigment and gesture, Oliveras recreates his view of the city, turning memory into a space of constant discovery.
The second area of the exhibition is structured around the large theatrical pieces, true stage curtains that breathe life of their own. They are compositions of a resounding expressive force, where the artist portrays characters of the night and everyday life with a gaze full of theatricality, but also of tenderness and intimacy. In these works, the pictorial stage becomes a meeting place between fiction and reality, between the mask and the inner truth.
Finally, Trilogy culminates with the small mysterious portraits, works that invite silent observation and introspection. Here, Oliveras' gaze focuses on the face and gesture, on the nuances that define the human being: what is palpable and what escapes, the mystery that dwells behind each expression.
With this exhibition, Roser Oliveras Oliver proposes a reflection on memory, identity and representation. Trilogy is both a journey through his career and an immersion in a poetic universe where each work speaks, observes and dialogues with the viewer from the vibrant silence of the painting.
Roser Oliveras' work, marked by expressive and vibrant figuration, is characterized by its ability to move naturally between different visual languages: painting, engraving, ceramics and sculpture. In each of these territories, the artist maintains a voice of his own, faithful to a lucid and at the same time deeply sensitive gaze. His work interrogates the human presence and its environment with a subtle combination of tenderness, irony and introspection. The female figure appears as a recurring axis: a symbol of strength and fragility, of resistance and vulnerability, becoming a metaphor for the complexity of the human experience.
The artist pursues his research in the tension between landscape and stage, journey and memory, dramaturgy and portrait. The first block—the journey to Istanbul—opens a space of discovery and confrontation with the other, the city, the culture, the experience. The second, with large curtains and scenes of nightlife, builds a stage where the characters move between lights and shadows, artifice and intimacy. The third block—the small portraits—reduces the large scale to the closest gesture, to the face, to the human enigma.
Catalogue in the form of an artist's book by Roser Oliveras
On this occasion, the exhibition catalogue transcends its usual format to become a true artist's book. The volume reproduces, in real size, a series of unpublished drawings that accompanied the trip to Istanbul and that now see the light of day for the first time. Roser Oliveras has intervened manually in each copy, working on the paper with gesture and matter, and transforming each of them into a unique and unrepeatable piece. In this way, the book becomes a space for plastic experimentation, an intermediate territory between painting and paper, between the memory of the trip and the physical presence of the pictorial matter.
