2016

COMBINATÒRIA : Salvador Juanpere - Joanpere Massana

CAVALLERS31-33  
C / Cavallers. 31-33
Lleida
sea - Fri 17: 00-20: 30 Sat 11: 30-13: 30 and 17: 30-20: 30
www.espaicavallers.com

11.12.2016 Opening November 11 to the 20: 00h
 

11/11/2016 - 12/11/2016
Opening November 11 at 20: 00h

Warehouse Space Knights want to add Llull Year with an exhibition whose title Combinatorics and the presented works of the artists Salvador Juanpere and Joanpere Massana.

Ramon Llull (1232-1316) is one of the most versatile writers of European tradition: philosopher, theologian, logical, novelist, poet, mystic, polemicist, missionary.
Got this extraordinary diversity cohesion, through the deployment of some 265 works in Catalan, Latin and Arabic, with a semi-mechanical system and a combinatorial proof of what he called "Ars".

Llull had the intuition extraordinary to see that everything was connected, created a system of thought methodical, known as Ars magna (published in 1315) and interrelate all disciplines of knowledge of his time (astronomy, philosophy, theology, logic, medicine, law ...). The language used to express this is the ars combinatorial, a good example of how to relate different things.

The choice of these artists from the Gallery has been made taking into account the profile of each artist from the point of view of interpretation of the work of Llull, his personal interest in the work and figure of Llull the fact that the combination of their names sound gives rise to a common Joanpere and Juanpere.

Although the respective work are very different in the work presented in Space Knights established a fluid dialogue both as a merger and interesting balance.

The work of Salvador Juanpere from an embryo figuration, immediately entered into a research phase and aesthetic recovery of primitive forms. His work is rooted in the tradition minimalist sculpture and Arte Povera.

In recent years his work has developed increasingly joined on his own sculptural work towards an explicit importance to the process of creating sculpture which is the central theme of his work, pedestals, anvils, pallets or boxes tools become poetitzats objects, usually with reworked materials. Also, your job is executed with great care and technology combined with references to great figures in the history of Western sculpture, and Bernini, Constantin Brancusi, Joseph Beuys, Jorge Oteiza, Donald Judd or Giuseppe Penone.

In relation to the material, established the symbiosis between the natural and the artificial either using materials extracted from nature, either with other industrial materials such as glass and steel flows into the nineties in work focused on science and thought.

Currently, drawings, sculptures and installations have a strong formal and poetic and as mentioned above are the result of a reflection on the creative process itself, the methodology of sculpture and crafts , even in a game of references and ironies metalinguistic.

This whole research reflection on the creative process methodologies used, connects directly with all your mind Llull.

The work in Joanpere Massana shows us a universe that runs constantly creative relationship between man and nature and the universe. A changing nature, where everything happens, everything disappears, everything is exchange, but that is always something.

The surfaces of his works, abstract and symbolic and figurative primitivism in turn, made cloth, paper or wood want to capture this relationship. Also, natural processes such as fertility, birth and renewal strongly expressed. This, together with the representation of symbols related to the world of childhood linked somehow to the complex worlds they created Miró and Tàpies.

The colors and friendly, its language and graphics individuals and inexhaustible pictorial stratifications, wrinkles in the fabric and the inclusion of certain materials of this nature such as leaves, seeds, pebbles and through close them in materials such as resins allow their durability over time.

All this gives the work its unique characteristics and peculiarities.

In Joanpere Massana based on a theme, or actually any information you are interested in however small a story develops which they want to transmit to the viewer. Through drawing, scratching, binding, lace some things with others and has strategically on the surface of the work to communicate and melt leads to a story that is set in amongst them this enables externalization of what the artist wants the viewer to explain each work.

This gives the whole work in Joanpere Massana unmistakable language, personal own.

In relation to the exhibition and Combinatorics based on the reading and study of several books Ramon Llull, and scholars such as Joseph Anthony Bonner and Perarnau among the three in Joanpere says: ... "I have physically and conceptually different building works on paper, canvas, wood, two-dimensional or three-dimensional. "

The fact that I had turned the series "Il libro di Fiori," The Book of flowers, has served to use this as a metaphor for many thoughts that are connected, as in the "graphs" in major freeways concept that derive roads. They are great ways born on other channels in order to reach other points, such as, for various factors, there may not.