The breathing lake
Dionis Escorsa
RocioSantaCruz, Barcelona
- Title
- The breathing lake
- Gallery
- RocioSantaCruz, Barcelona
- Year
- 2025
- Duration
- 24 min
- Format & Technical
In collaboration with Albert Merino. Oil painting on wood measuring 250 x 150 cm and 24-minute HD video loop projected above it. This piece corresponds to one of the chapters of the work, the rest of which is part of the exhibitionThe cosmic field and the breathing lake), on display at the RocioSantaCruz gallery.
- Contact
Dionis Escorsa recovers 19th-century landscape imagery and engages in a stylistic appropriation that allows him to continue painting as if he were his grandfather. He proposes a critical reinterpretation of landscape and family memory, not as closed archives, but as living territories that can be rewritten and reinterpreted.
Together with Albert Merino, he developed a 3D video mapping system connected in real-time to a meteorological server and projected onto a painting depicting the semi-submerged bell tower of Sau, a neighbor of Tavérnoles, which his grandfather painted nearly a century ago. The large oil paintings of The Breathing Lake highlights a climatic component particularly sensitive today: the oscillation of water levels, projected using data from a server belonging to the Hydrographic Confederation.
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Dionis Escorsa
- Participant
- www.dionisescorsa.net/txt/autor.php
Dionis Escorsa started out as a painter in the early nineties, and gradually broadened the scope of his work to include photography, installations and video. In 1998 he began creating video-scenographies for dance and theatre companies. He also collaborated with the social-artistic-territorial collective Rotor.He exhibited individually in art centers such Zvono Gallery of Belgrad, Dispari&Dispari projects of Reggio Emilia, Italy, Sala de l’Antic Ajuntament of Tarragona, Spain, Casal Solleric of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Travesia Cuatro Gallery of Madrid or Senda Gallery and Ego Gallery of Barcelona, among others.The Caixafòrum Foundation – MACBA Foundation of Barcelona, the Sammlung WÚRTH of Germany or the Sunyol Foundation in Barcelona, collected some of his works.As filmmaker, he directed recently the feature film “Y”, premiered in 2013 at the Kino der Kunst Festival of Munich, and shown, among others, at Xcentric Festival of CCCB in Barcelona, or IBAFF of Murcia, Spain. His short films were also shown in festivals such Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Cosi fan tutte of Vienna, Festival de cine de Málaga, Hamburg kurz film festival, OVNI festival of Barcelona, Festival de Cine Pobre of Santiago de Cuba, Berlin kurz film festival or Flux festival of Barcelona.
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RocioSantaCruz
- Address
- Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 627, 08010, Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34936338360
- info@rociosantacruz.com
- Website
- rociosantacruz.com
RocioSantaCruz (before Raina Lupa and +R Gallery) opens its doors at Eixample, Barcelona’s most emblematic gallery district with an area of 300m2. Rocio Santa Cruz continues her solid career as a gallerist, art editor and curator, which began its path in 1994 in Paris. The gallery continues developing previous projects as the artist and photography book publishing, but also aims to open a space to experimental cinema, working with young emerging artists and major internationally renowned artists.