Exhibitions
Diego Guirao, present in absence: Mataró celebrates his life and work in a posthumous exhibition
At Ca l'Arenas – Mataró Museum, the universe of Diego Guirao unfolds as a vital tribute: two decades of creation marked by perseverance, social commitment and a critical look at his time.
The Mataró Museum presents an exhibition by Diego Guirao: Untitled . It is a show dedicated to the artist from Mataró, who died in January 2024 without knowing that he had been selected to hold an exhibition in the Singulars cycle, at Ca l'Arenas – Mataró Museum, the municipality that saw him born and die. The project has taken on a character of homage, not of mourning but of celebration of a life fully dedicated to art.
The exhibition is led by Sílvia Aguilera Guirao, his niece, to whom the artist entrusted the conservation and dissemination of his legacy, together with Verónica Aguilera Carrasco, the artist in charge of curating this journey through the last two decades of his work. Verónica, Sílvia's cousin, was deeply marked by Diego Guirao's reflections on the raison d'être, the craft, the experience and the artistic context; a dialogue that she decided to transfer to the museum's rooms through the presence of her own work.
Photo: Sergio Ruiz.
The exhibition is not presented as a set of various paintings and sculptures, but as a solid and coherent trajectory that the public has not always been able to follow continuously. Diego Guirao's creative universe is built from multiple layers and a deep substrate of personal experiences. His work is born from an impulse of rebellion against what he considered unjust. He understood the artist as a servant of society, capable of transmitting, from his sensitivity, concerns that are often shared collectively. Although this role is often misunderstood, as is contemporary art, his work demands an active and committed gaze from the viewer.
Diego Guirao shows us how the artist can, through his brush, interpret and shape his time, building a structure that dilutes polarities and generates a game of mirrors between art and nature. Never stopping, with constancy and determination, perseverance becomes his most defining trait.
Photo: Sergio Ruiz.
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