Exhibitions
Forgetting Gaudí: from 100 to zero
Salvador Juanpere deactivates the iconic figure of Gaudí at the Antoni Pinyol Gallery in a reflection on memory, mythification and the loss of the image.
At the Antoni Pinyol Gallery, the artist Salvador Juanpere (Vilaplana, Tarragona, 1953) presents the exhibition Forgetting Gaudí (from 100 to zero) , a project that proposes a critical and poetic look at the figure of Antoni Gaudí, especially in the context of the centenary of his death.
The proposal is born from a clear will: to deactivate the monumental and often idealized image of Gaudí to recover a more human, earthly and vulnerable dimension. Based on his death mask, Juanpere articulates a sculptural installation formed by a hundred elements in the process of degradation. This set, conceived as a kind of symbolic countdown —from 100 to zero—, functions as an exercise in dissolving the image until returning it to its most primary essence.
In parallel, the series of drawings Desdibuixar Gaudí expands this operation of transfiguration. Using mixed techniques, the artist subjects the architect's face and presence to processes of fragmentation, loss and reconfiguration, with the aim of freeing him from the layers of mythification, mass tourism and ideological readings that have ended up superimposing themselves on the historical figure.
The project is conceived as a 'Zone Zero': a deactivated, neutral symbolic space, where the figure of Gaudí can be reinterpreted from a more essential perspective. Far from contemporary cultural sanctification, Juanpere claims a return to matter, to stone and to the organic dimension of Gaudí's architecture.
The exhibition is completed with the edition of the artist's book G. , a serialized, numbered and signed publication that includes a poem by Vicenç Altaió, photographic documentation of the pieces and a critical study by historian and curator Teresa Blanch, which contextualizes both the project and the figure of Gaudí within its historical and symbolic framework.
Forgetting Gaudí (from 100 to zero) can be visited from June 14 to September 15 at the Antoni Pinyol Gallery, and proposes an artistic experience that interrogates cultural memory and the construction of contemporary myths.
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