Benet Rossell. A Ningú
25 May — 5 June 2016
— With the production of Adolf Alcañiz
- Artists
- Benet Rossell
- Curators
- Diana Padrón
- Venue
- Museu Picasso de Barcelona
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A Ningú (To Anybody) shows a selection of unreleased films made by Adolf Alcañiz during the last six years, documenting actions executed by Benet Rossell (Àger, Lleida, 1937) from the intimacy of his private life. Personal metaphors linked either to his home town, Àger, or to his artistic career between Barcelona and Paris, bring us closer to the figure of a vertical artist: from the specific to the common, from the everyday gesture to poetry. The duality of the visual artist and actor invites to a dialogue that is at once material and ephemeral: the ideal conversation takes shape through a hermeneutics of the use of the objects and reminds us of that dismissed scene from Chaplin’s City Light, in which he imagined a series of possible uses of a piece of wood.
Experimental filmmaker from the Sixties, painter, poet, sculptor and playwright, this exhibition pays tribute to the intimate facet of this dedicated artist and, in the words by Jean-Clarence Lamb, to the “spectacle of everyday life.”
Artists: Benet Rossell
Diana Padrón is a researcher, critic and independent curator. She holds a B.A. degree in Art History from the University of La Laguna, M.A. in Advanced Studies in Art History from the University of Barcelona and a Ph.D. from the same university in Society and Culture: History, Anthropology, Arts, Heritage and Cultural Management. She has been a visiting post-doc researcher at the Università di Padova, Université de Lille and Goldsmiths College – University of London. She collaborates with several art, thought and politics journals, and has been co-editor with Martí Peran of the journal REG|AC (Scientific Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art of the Universitat de Barcelona). As an independent curator she has organised exhibitions for the San Martín Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Museo Picasso de Barcelona, Loop Barcelona Festival, 13th Havana Biennial, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporànea, Centro de Arte La Regenta and Casal Solleric. She is a member of the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo (IAC) and the Associació Catalana de la Crítica d’Art (ACCA).
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