Exhibitions
The Castell de Calonge opens a window into memory and mystery
Francesc Artigau and Robert Llimós coexist in a double exhibition that confronts human introspection with the fascination for the unknown.
This summer, the Castell de Calonge becomes a space for dialogue between two fundamental trajectories of Catalan contemporary art. The exhibitions by Francesc Artigau and Robert Llimós, inaugurated this Saturday, bring together more than a hundred works including paintings and sculptures that, from very different languages, invite the visitor to reflect on the human condition, memory and the limits of reality.
Francesc Artigau presents Pintura 2020-2026 , a selection of more than forty recent pieces that confirms his fidelity to a deeply narrative and emotional painting. The artist structures the exhibition itinerary as a visual novel divided into four chapters, where childhood, fragility, feminism and the footprint we leave in the world become the axes of a work that avoids spectacularity to seek the intensity of everyday gestures.
Artigau's painting maintains a rare ability to transform seemingly simple scenes into universal metaphors. His figures, silent and contained, do not impose a narrative, but rather suggest open questions about vulnerability and memory. It is a work that demands a slow gaze, far removed from the rapid consumption of images.
In a radically different vein, Robert Llimós' Contact explores the boundary between personal experience and imagination. The exhibition brings together works created from 2009 to the present day and is based on the artist's account of a supposed encounter with two extraterrestrial figures in Fortaleza, Brazil, while he was drawing outdoors.
Beyond the credibility of this experience, the artistic value of the proposal lies in its capacity to transform an intimate episode into a coherent symbolic universe. Alien figures, large-format paintings and sculptures in terracotta and bronze build an imaginary that speaks both of the immensity of the cosmos and of the inner unknowns of the human being. Llimós does not seek to prove anything; he uses mystery as a poetic resource to explore what escapes reason.
The exhibition also includes sculptures linked to Miraestels, one of the artist's most recognizable icons, installed in the Port of Barcelona. This figure, permanently oriented towards the firmament, synthesizes one of the constants of his career: the fascination with the sky as a space of questions rather than answers.
The coexistence of both exhibitions turns the Castell de Calonge into a particularly suggestive setting. If Artigau invites us to look inward, Llimós proposes to raise our gaze towards the universe. Two apparently opposite itineraries that, in reality, share the same desire: to explore the invisible territories of human experience.
The two exhibitions can be visited until August 2, offering an exceptional opportunity to discover two unique voices of contemporary Catalan art that, from different sensibilities, continue to question our time.
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