Month: January 2023

A journey through the imaginary of JAUME PLENSA in the Macbeth opera

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With Jaume Plensa as artistic director, Verdi’s opera Macbeth premieres on February 16 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

This was already announced by Richard Wagner when he coined the term “Gesamtkunstwerk”, referring to opera as a total work of art that integrates the six arts: painting, sculpture, music, poetry, dance and architecture.

The Wagnerian ideal seeks a fusion between all the participatory elements of opera, as Jaume Plensa, known for his multifaceted artistic vision, has done. The Catalan artist has taken on the challenge of directing the stage production of the opera Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

Verdi’s well-known opera premieres this February 16 under the direction of Josep Pons, with a powerful aesthetic and ritual presence of Jaume Plensa. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the artist confesses that “it is one of the most profound and interesting reflections on duality between body and soul, between abstraction and matter“.

Plensa affirms that “it is one of Shakespeare’s most mental plays, because we have all been Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and other characters in the play at one time or another“, which is addressed “to the deepest sense of the human being“. All in all, for Plensa, Macbeth represents a deeply introspective theatrical work that resonates with the universal human experience. He explains that each character in the play is a representation of diverse aspects of the human being, inviting the viewer to explore his or her own psyche through the operatic narrative.

“I wanted to make a completely mental opera, to see in each scene moments that are like us, we have all been characters in the piece at one time or another“. Through the costumes, with most costumes out of his time, working on the choreography with Antonio Ruiz and lighting with Urs Schönebaum, Jaume Plensa aims to bring the viewer a more spiritual vision of the work, capturing in the best possible way the journey through the imaginary characteristic of the sculptor. His goal is to take the viewer on a spiritual journey through the rich imaginary that characterizes his work as a sculptor.

Image of white, black, red and gold colored figurines
Image of white, black, red and silver colored figurines

Macbeth art direction mock-up

The opera has an exquisite cast formed by Luca Salsi, Željko Lučić, Erwin Schrott, Simón Orfila, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Gemma Coma-Alabert, Francesco Pio Galasso, Celso Albelo, Fabian Lara and David Lagares. With special enthusiasm, we will meet again with Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano who plays Lady Macbeth and of whom we remember her visit to ARCO Madrid 2021 on the occasion of the presentation of the poster of the Castell de Peralada Festival.

Photograph of four men and a woman smiling at the camera posing in front of a painting

From left to right, Oriol Aguilà, director of the Festival Castell de Peralada; Joan Matabosch, artistic director of the Teatro Real; Carlos Álvarez, baritone; Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano; and artist Jordi Bernadó, posing with one of his works exhibited at ARCO Madrid 2021.

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Photograph of Jaume Plensa seated on a chair with a microphone in hand

Jaume Plensa selected works:

Jaume Plensa – Bartók
Jaume Plensa Tears
Jaume Plensa – SLUMBERLAND III

ANNA MALAGRIDA presents “L’Attente” at La Filature, Mulhouse

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An essential artist on the contemporary scene, Anna Malagrida, has been working in photography and videography since the late 90s with impressive consistency. Malagrida addresses political issues with great poetic delicacy and subtly works the staging, the play of light and chiaroscuro, confusing photography and pictorial art in the same gesture.

Anna Malagrida expresses the personal representation of the city of Paris through her images: the globalized city, on its walls and facades, appears as a skin that bears the traces of the events and crises it is going through.

Exhibition from January 17th to March 5th, 2023 at La Filature, Mulhouse
Tuesday to Sunday from 2pm to 6pm + show nights
(La Filature will be closed to the public from February 12 to 26.)

For more information you can visit the La Filature website through this link:

L’ATTENTE

Children of the Fundació Comtal portray works exhibited in the gallery for the “World Selfie Day in Museums”

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Last Wednesday, January 18, 2023 will remain engraved in the memory of the children of the Fundación Comtal, an organization that has been working tirelessly since 1994 to provide opportunities for the future to children, adolescents and young people in vulnerable situations and their families. On this special occasion, on the occasion of “World Selfie Day in Museums”, they had the privilege of visiting Galeria SENDA.

From the moment they set foot in the gallery, the young people were greeted with a warm welcome and a detailed explanation of the current exhibition: “Love Song” by renowned artist Elena Del Rivero. Excited by the opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of contemporary art, they listened attentively as the story and meaning behind each work of art on display at SENDA was narrated to them.

After absorbing all the information about the exhibition, came the most exciting moment of the visit. As part of the scheduled activity, each child was invited to choose one of the works on display in the gallery to study it closely. With pencils and paper in hand, they immersed themselves in a world of creativity and expression. With each stroke, they tried to capture the essence and beauty of the surrounding artwork. From the vibrant colors to the smallest details, each child let their imagination run wild as they brought their own interpretation of the works to life.

Amidst laughter and murmurs of excitement, the young people shared their creations with each other, enthusiastically describing every detail they had captured in their drawings. For many of them, this experience was much more than just an artistic exercise; it was a unique opportunity to express their emotions and unleash their creativity.

As the visit came to an end, the young people left Galeria SENDA with a sense of satisfaction and pride in what they had accomplished. For them, this experience was not only an opportunity to explore the world of art, but also a reminder that, despite the challenges they face in their daily lives, they have the power to create beauty and meaning around them.

In short, “World Selfie Day at Museums” was not only a celebration of art, but also a reminder of the positive impact art can have on the lives of children, especially those who need it most. Although it may seem like a global, absurd and little-known day, it is thanks to such oddities that art never dies. Moreover, thanks to initiatives such as the one proposed by Galeria SENDA for this celebration, art continues to be a beacon of hope and creativity for future generations. Because, as the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, said: “Without art, life would be a mistake“.

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Chus Roig, partner and co-founder of the gallery during the explanation with the Fundació Comtal group

Here are some of the most outstanding drawings that the children of the Fundació Comtal created for this initiative, along with their respective original work:

Sculpture of a young woman's face by Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa
Martina (2022)
Wood, 140 x 32 x 44 cm

Metal and glass sculpture
Túlio Pinto
Complicity #29 (2021)
Steel and glass, 140 x 40 x 96 cm
Wooden sculpture of a man with black jacket, white shirt and pink tie
Stephan Balkenhol
Man with pink tie (2022)  
Wood, 120 x 95.5 x 11.7 cm
Dark canvas with large white star in the center and the word "FEAR" in red
Elena Del Rivero
#102 (2020)
Collage with damaged and recovered fragments of acrylic on canvas, oil, thread and canvas plastered on museum board, 29 x 23 cm
Abstract painting of beings with yellow faces
Evru Zush
Girls Of My Life (1988)
Oil on paper, 92 x 184 cm

The Suñol Foundation presents a monographic exhibition dedicated to ZUSH

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“Zush in Ibiza”

27.01.2023 – 20.05.2023

Fundació Suñol will present at the end of January 2023 a monographic exhibition dedicated to Zush, an artist from the Suñol Soler Collection, in collaboration with Eivissa Museum of Contemporary Art, where the exhibition was presented between the months of June and November 2022.

Curatorship: Enrique Juncosa, Elena Ruiz (Museu d’Art Contemporani d’Eivissa) and Xavier de Luca.

Opening: Friday, January 27 at 7:00 p.m.

SENDA recommends: LAIA NOAL “Poetics of deconstruction” in Lab36

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LAB36 opens its 2023 exhibition calendar with two artistic proposals that have a common concept: thinking and building the landscape. Thus, in this first part of the year, LAB36 presents “Poètiques de la Destrucción” by Laia Noal, the winner of the Nasevo 2021 award from the Ernesto Ventós Foundation , and “Paradis Artificial” by Jordi Gispert Pi.

On the occasion of “Poètiques de la Destrucción”, Jordi Garrido, historian and art critic,
has produced a text that reflects on the work of Laia Noal, introducing us to her artistic project and the exhibition.


“Laia Noal proposes a multisensory approach to the landscape, juxtaposing elements, decontextualizing them and isolating them to highlight the degradation that we can cause in nature” – Jordi Garrido


The full text is available on the LAB36 website: https://lab36.org/blog-poeticas-de-la-destruccion-por-jordi-garrido/

Imma Prieto on “Love Song”, a show by Elena Del Rivero

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Conducting: the ritual of gesture

By Imma Prieto, director of Es Baluard, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma

Elena del Rivero has generated new music sheets, compositions constituted in and from the fragment, a palimpsest of memories that create community and collective imagination. Each work is nourished by previous gestures and generates choreographies in which we can intervene from shared thought. All these works accompany each other and are constellations that make up her vital imagination.

In this stellar space other voices resonate, other internal and social movements. In this space that welcomes us today, intimate passages and collective revolts are presented in constant dialogue, all forging her visual writing. Images, words, sound, spaces, her universe flies over us and touches us.

Without this necessary friction, the movement that fosters conduction would not take place, which, in the composer’s words, becomes a universal vocabulary in which music becomes language, made up of gestures and cadences, of fragments and memories of a collective ritual.

Some of the fragments that make up these collages were part of other works that were on the floor of his old studio, located on Cedar Street in New York, the day the attack took place of the World Trade Center, on September 11, 2001.

We could imagine that, months later, after collecting the fragments, Butch Morris was being heard in some room in the city. Tunes that coexist and promote frequencies from almost forgotten remnants. It is interesting to point to that gesture before and after something, it is interesting to think together about that universal conduction.

It is convenient to attend to the generated landscapes, to the ritual that surrounds them and allows us to be united, with that pairing of images, rhythms and stories, with that simultaneity that promotes the performativity of the ritual.

Access all the information about the show here:

Opening: 12.01.2023 at 7pm in Galeria SENDA.

Read the complete text in spanish here:

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