Exhibitions
Palafrugell turns Cuixart into a collective constellation
The Library inaugurates Constellations Cuixart. Dau al 16, an exhibition with sixteen artists who revisit the universe of Modest Cuixart in the year of the centenary of his birth.
The Palafrugell Library joins in commemorating the centenary of Modest Cuixart with a proposal that puts memory, contemporary creation and collective work into dialogue. This Friday, July 10, at 7 p.m., the facility's courtyard will host the inauguration of Constel·lacions Cuixart. Dau al 16 , an exhibition that brings together sixteen visual artists linked to the ARTECA project to pay tribute to one of the key figures of the Catalan avant-garde of the 20th century.
The exhibition is part of ARTECA, the temporary loan service for artistic works promoted by the Palafrugell Library, an initiative that has been working for over fifteen years to bring contemporary art closer to the public and give visibility to local creators. On this occasion, the project takes on a commemorative and choral dimension on the occasion of Cuixart Year, inviting a group of artists to create a piece inspired by the painter's visual, symbolic and material universe.
The result is a large collective mural ten meters long formed by sixteen vertical recycled PVC canvases, where each participant offers their own reading of Cuixart's legacy. The installation, presided over by a central piece with a photograph of the artist and the title of the work, unfolds a game of correspondences between different languages, techniques and sensibilities, and claims the validity of an imaginary that continues to generate echoes in current creation.
The title of the exhibition refers directly to Constellation , a work created by Cuixart in 1949, while the subtitle Dau al 16 reformulates the memory of the group Dau al Set —of which the artist was a member— to update it in a contemporary and collective key. The reference to the sixteen participating creators underlines precisely this desire to convert Cuixart's legacy into a shared space, open to new readings and interpretations.
The artists participating in this tribute are Rosa Aguiló, Abdessadik Ahmittach, Lola Barranco, Om Barbarà, Lluís Batlle, Uriel Bruguera, Laura Elías, Ainhoa Gonzalez, Enric Iglesias, Carla Iglesias, Llorenç Marqués, Alex Quiles, Cati Salazar, Elisenda Soler, Eva Tormo and Cyril Torres. Their careers encompass fields as diverse as painting, ceramics, drawing, cabinetmaking, tattooing and crafts, a plurality of disciplines that is reflected in a collective work conceived from formal and conceptual diversity.
Beyond the exhibition, the proposal also aims to bring the creative process and the context of the works closer to the public. During the visit, a dossier with information about the artists and the pieces on display will be available to consult, and on the same day of the inauguration, an audiovisual recording of the participants' creative process will be screened in the Library's multipurpose room. The event will be open to everyone.
The exhibition will be open until early September and is supported by the Modest Cuixart Foundation, an organization dedicated to preserving and disseminating the artist's work, while promoting contemporary creation and supporting new talents. This complicity reinforces one of the underlying ideas of the Cuixart Centenary: to turn the commemoration not only into an exercise in memory, but also into a platform to activate his legacy from the present.
In parallel with the opening of the exhibition, the centenary program will continue this Saturday, July 11, with a new session of the AcCent Cuixart cycle at the Espai Cuixart, which will have Om Barbarà as guest artist. The evening will culminate with a live performative pictorial action and with the performance of the American musician Warren Walker, in a proposal that will once again put the visual arts and music in relation, two dimensions also present in the experimental spirit that marked Cuixart's career.
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