Exhibitions
Eulàlia Grau: Five decades of critical art arrive in Andorra
Eulàlia Grau and her entire career will be the center of attention in Andorra with the exhibition "Eulàlia Grau. Art as an Ethical Commitment" at the Government Exhibition Hall, curated by Ricard Planas. A tour of all her artistic moments, creating a detailed retrospective featuring emblematic works from the 1970s, 1980s, and recent pieces, on view until October 26.
From the beginning, she created a signature style where collage is the backbone of her work, and she is one of the most significant figures of the first transition from Franco's dictatorship. Collage and photomontage denounce inequalities, institutional and gender violence, and corruption with diverse themes that she adapts and creates over time and across eras.
Cementiri, Eulàlia Grau, 1972.
The inauguration will take place on Tuesday, July 15th, at the Government Exhibition Hall in Andorra la Vella, featuring one of the most powerful voices in conceptual and critical art on the contemporary scene. Art acts as a tool for thought, transporting the viewer's gaze to a striking iconographic world. A tour of the Principality's museum hall with artwork, collages, photographs, silkscreens, books, and Grau's latest work, a video about the street that is highly representative of the sweat, drunkenness, and open bars, explains Grau, with the terrible suffering it brings to the residents.
Menu, Eulàlia Grau, 1973.
From that moment in 1973 when she exhibited at the Vinçon, an essential space in Barcelona at that time, to exhibiting in many places around the world and making a name for herself as a woman in the art world, alongside leading figures such as Fina Miralles, Esther Ferrer, and Àngels Ribé, or the exhibition dedicated to her at MACBA in 2013. More than ten years later, Eulàlia Grau continues to think and create, always in parallel with highly topical issues. Art as an ethical commitment details this point of awareness and collective responsibility in her art, but as a woman, she also consistently views uncomfortable social critiques in her artistic practice.
Eulàlia Grau and Ricard Planas, the exhibition's curator, have created a journey that offers a broad overview of Grau's entire career. Each work and piece has a vision driven by reflection, thinking, and rethinking, leaving aside contemplation, as it transports you to provocation, even discomfort. The Terrassa-based artist opens cracks to articulate a visual resistance against forms of injustice.
Cafés Brasil, Eulàlia Grau, 1972
The artist revives techniques such as collage and photomontage to construct a striking iconographic vocabulary. She is considered an artist who straddles the role of avant-garde artist and activist, where newspaper fragments, clippings, posters, and covers of magazines such as Canigó and Bonart serve as new communication mediums, giving rise to a composition full of contrasts, yet charged with visual power, both raw and beautiful.
