Exhibitions
Traces of time: Fernando Prats dialogues with Romanesque art
A contemporary intervention curated by Gloria Moure that connects nature, movement and spirituality across the centuries.
From March 26 to October 12, the Romanesque art rooms are transformed into a space of dialogue between past and present thanks to the intervention of the artist Fernando Prats, under the curatorship of Gloria Moure. This proposal invites the visitor to travel a visual and conceptual itinerary that transcends time, establishing subtle links between apparently distant artistic languages.
Prats' work is built on a special sensitivity towards natural phenomena and their rhythms. Elements such as gravity or the beating of bird wings become tools to record universal movement, generating a poetic cartography that crosses the rooms. In this context, the landscapes he proposes are not just representations, but experiences that evoke the passage of time and the invisible dynamics of nature.
Fernando Prats, Vesica Piscis, Catch on the Fly, 2009, National Art Museum of Catalonia 2026.
This intervention does not limit itself to dialogue with Romanesque art, but rather reinterprets it, highlighting its hidden geometries and internal structures. The contemplation of these correspondences reveals a profound connection between eras, beyond conceptual differences, and highlights the persistence of certain human concerns.
The route proposed by Prats unfolds as a continuous line that unites the different rooms in a cohesive experience. Through this itinerary, the artist explores the representation of nature as an artistic subject, developing a notion of landscape that is constructed from pictorial registers and cumulative processes.
His works, often out of time, claim painting as a complex and stratified sedimentation, capable of containing the tensions and contradictions inherent in human experience. Thus, the proposal becomes an invitation to look beyond the surface, to discover the invisible layers that connect art, nature and existence.
Fernando Prats, Vesica Piscis, Untitled, 2025, National Art Museum of Catalonia 2026.
"The route establishes a dialogue, outlines a line that is interwoven with alternative passages until it articulates the different parts of the exhibition as a whole. Throughout this itinerary, the concept of representation is addressed through projects in which nature is erected as an artistic subject: works of pictorial register that develop the notion of landscape and creations about time and its duration that claim the vision of painting as a stratified, deep and skillful sedimentation of the contradictions inherent in human experience." Gloria Moure
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