Exhibitions
UBI UMBRA, UBI LUMENA
Ubi Umbra, Ibi Lumen: Domènec Corbella's new exhibition transforms the Les Avellanes Monastery into a space of contemplation and spirituality.
First exhibited in November 1984 under the title Victims at the Reus Reading Center and fourteen years later at the Montserrat Museum, Ubi Umbra, Ibi Lumen (Where there is shadow, there is light) now resurfaces as a space for meditation, contemplation and spiritualization at the Bellpuig de les Avellanes Monastery.
In this new presentation that can be seen until April 4, Domènec Corbella proposes a dialogue between light and painting that reveals, in an intimately interrelated way, the great existential states of the human condition; life, sacrifice, death and resurrection.
Through a set of eleven paintings about crucifixions accompanied by eleven quotes from philosophers, painters and philologists who, in their clash, amplify their meaning, Ubi Umbra, Ibi Lumen invites the viewer to delve into what would be the peak of Domènec Corbella's career.
The chromatic intensity and a vibrating line, with informalist resonances, construct an expressive space where agony and ecstasy are confused, and pain coexists with transcendence. In this context, the verticality and horizontality of the body become a metaphor for a persistent tension between matter and spirit. The series, born from a vital experience marked by the intuition of loss, unfolds in a journey that moves from suspended bodies to crucified figures, with a convulsive gesturality that crosses the whole.
Domènec Corbella studied at the Llotja, School of Art and Design of Barcelona, at the International University of Art of Florence, and at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, where he obtained his doctorate, and where he is currently professor emeritus. He created the Cognitive Painting Laboratory; he is a researcher at the Institute for Water Research, and the Institute in Art, Design and Society of the University of Porto.
The artist's constant soulful and spiritual search is evident throughout a career that evolves through various stages—existentialist, informalist, expressionist, Mediterranean, intimate, essential, Zen and Taoist.
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