Exhibitions
The silent poetry of drawing with Vicenç Huedo at the Valvi Foundation
An immersion in the graphic universe of Vicenç Huedo, where drawing becomes a space for contemplation, memory and perception of the landscape.
Within the framework of the eleventh edition of the Mestres Artistes cycle, Vicenç Huedo emerges as a silent but profoundly eloquent voice. The cycle, promoted by the Fita Foundation and the Girona City Council —with the complicity of the Casa de Cultura and the participation of several cultural institutions in the city—, offers on this occasion an attentive and delicate look at a work that finds its natural space of expression in drawing.
The exhibition Matter and Poetry. (Nothing) is Truth, 11 , hosted by the Valvi Foundation, brings together a hundred small-format drawings made with pencil, graphite and chalk. Pieces modest in size but vast in resonance, which dialogue with each other to form a single, great visual constellation. Each drawing seems to be a fragment of the same creative breath, a sensitive annotation that, added to the others, builds a mental and organic landscape.
Huedo deploys a poetics of the stroke that delves into the matter to reveal its intimacy. Textures become skin, plant forms breathe, and the suggested gardens are not so much concrete places as states of contemplation. There is in these works a persistent fascination with the natural world, understood not as mimetic representation, but as a territory of perception and memory.
The whole is offered to the viewer as an imaginary herbalist, a notebook where time seems to be suspended. The lines, thin and restrained, evoke silences; the blank spaces act as necessary pauses for the gaze. It is in this economy of means where Vicenç Huedo's work finds its strength: in the capacity to suggest, to make the poetry of the matter emerge without the need for stridentness.
This exhibition, which can be visited at the Valvi Foundation from January 15 to February 28, invites us to observe, to create a dialogue of gazes, but to inhabit the drawing, to let ourselves be carried away by a visual experience that appeals to slowness and attention. In accelerated times, Huedo's work proposes a return to the essential: to the minimal gesture, to direct contact with the paper, to contemplation as a form of knowledge.
