Exhibitions
Sergi Aguilar turns the UAB Exhibition Hall into a space to think about art and the world
Tool, Game, Travel offers an intimate journey through the creative universe of one of the great figures of Catalan contemporary sculpture. A rigorous and subtle proposal that allows us to rediscover Sergi Aguilar's work from a critical, sensitive and fully valid perspective.
On a campus where the daily rhythm tends to prevail over contemplation, the UAB Exhibition Hall continues to prove that it is one of the most stimulating spaces to discover quality exhibition projects. Located in the Library of Communication and Newspaper Archive, in front of Plaça Cívica, the hall has consolidated a line of work that combines academic rigor and curatorial sensitivity. A good example of this is Tool, Game, Travel , an exhibition dedicated to Sergi Aguilar and curated by students of the Master's Degree in Analysis and Management of Artistic Heritage, which proposes a renewed reading of the creative universe of one of the fundamental artists of Catalan contemporary sculpture. The exhibition can be visited until September 2.
The exhibition offers a suggestive approach to the work of one of the most influential creators of contemporary Catalan sculpture in recent decades. Far from proposing a conventional retrospective, the project builds an itinerary that allows us to delve into the working processes, references and conceptual concerns that have defined Aguilar's career. The exhibition can be visited until September 2.
The tour opens with a gesture as simple as it is powerful: a peephole through which the visitor observes the artist's workshop. This first action functions as a metaphor for the entire exhibition project. More than showing the physical space of creation, it invites one to cross the threshold of the gaze and penetrate that territory where ideas take shape, where objects become thought and matter is transformed into language.
From here, the exhibition unfolds a selection of works that cross different registers of Sergi Aguilar's artistic practice. Small-format sculptures, drawings, paintings and audiovisual pieces dialogue with each other to demonstrate a coherent production, marked by formal purification and by a constant investigation into space, route, landscape and perception. In Aguilar, form is never just form: each element becomes an invitation to rethink the relationship between the body, the territory and experience.
The tour culminates with To G. Anselmo , a work that is symbolically presented as a tool for inhabiting and interpreting the world. The piece synthesizes many of the issues present throughout the exhibition: the idea of displacement, the notion of the object as an instrument of knowledge, and the capacity of art to generate new forms of perception. More than a conclusion, it functions as an opening towards new questions.
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