The coincidence in time of the 10th Biennial of Art Leandre Crist\u00f2fol at the Centre d\u2019Art La Panera in Lleida, Mat\u00e8ria Prima at Fabra i Coats, Centre d\u2019Art Contemporani and the current exhibitions at ADN Platform, in Sant Cugat, draw a \u201chere and now\u201d of the panorama of artistic production in Catalonia, as were in their day exhibitions today considered historic, such as Anys 90: Dist\u00e0ncia zero (1994), curated by Jos\u00e9 Luis Brea at the Centre d\u2019Art Santa M\u00f2nica; Vost\u00e8 est\u00e0 aqu\u00ed (2000), curated by Chus Mart\u00ednez and Rosa Ferr\u00e9 at La Virreina or La Cuesti\u00f3n del Paradigma. Genealogies of the emergence of contemporary art in Catalonia (2011), curated by Manuel Segade at La Panera in Lleida and at the Capella in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
Mat\u00e8ria Prima, curated by David Armengol, David G. Torres and Mart\u00ed Peran, is a reunion with some of the most outstanding works of recent years, such as the \u201cRobinson Chair\u201d, the transformation of a table by Albers into a chair by Rafel G. Bianchi; the \u201cHorizonts\u201d and cartographies by Yamand\u00fa Canosa; the Mies van der Rohe wall in an inflatable version by L\u00faa Coderch or the video installation \u201cIl linguaggio del corpo\u201d by Joan Morey, to name just a few.<\/p>\n
The 10th Leandre Crist\u00f2fol Art Biennial, curated by C\u00e8lia del Diego, Oriol Fontdevila and Javier Hontoria, is committed to the hybridisation of disciplines with the incorporation of the performances of the dancer, choreographer and pedagogue Aimar P\u00e9rez Gal\u00ed and the independent publishing house Cru, which highlights the importance of artist publications as spaces of independence and experimentation. The biennial also raises the debate about the patrimonialisation of practices that question material limits. An example is Anna Dot’s action \u201cS\u2019amagaven darrera els arbres\u201d (2016) which is incorporated into the biennial through the story.<\/p>\n
Anna Dot with her interest in language and Pep Vidal with his scientific approach and his research into infinitesimal changes are also featured in two of the exhibitions at ADN Platform, the space promoted by the gallery owner Miguel \u00c1ngel S\u00e1nchez that allows artists and curators to define and develop projects and pre-projects with a freedom that institutional premises often cannot offer.<\/p>\n
Between the commitment to the \u201cfuturibles\u201d of the Leandre Crist\u00f2fol Biennial and ADN Platform and the inventory of \u201cmid-career\u201d artists by Fabra i Coats, we can detect ways of doing things, interests or shared references, such as the emphasis on processes and immaterial practices, as well as their possible transfer to an exhibition format; a focus on the political and social present; the transformation of cities and personal relationships; text, narrative and language; transdisciplinarity and reflection on artistic practice itself.<\/p>\n
[Article published in Bonart, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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