MIQUEL WERT. BONS SOUVENIRS.
A summer trip back in time at the Anquins Gallery
Summer is here and with it the new exhibition at Anquins! Bons souvenirs by Miquel Wert transports us to childhood summers, evoking memories full of nostalgia that have captivated those who look at them.
Miquel Wert, recognized for his ability to capture the essence of memory in his work, presents a series of drawings and paintings with charcoal and acrylic on wood and canvas. With this exhibition he brings together works from the last 15 years.
A visual journey full of nuances that invites us to remember past summers and explore memories, as those attending the inauguration could see.
One of Miquel’s multiple virtues is that he chooses the scenes he paints avoiding banal, idyllic scenes void of nuance, yet always allowing for the possibility if not of a disaster, at least of a dark cloud scudding past. These images are also open enough to allow each person to mould them to their own circumstances, experience or imagination. And it seems to me that more than conjuring up some sort of paradise lost his work enters into a kind of tension with the documentary-type proposal that is dependable almost to the point of being evidential of the photographic images from which it started out. Consequently, what Miquel has spent years doing is interrogating the creation of an individual and ultimately collective subconscious using the same aesthetic form that has made his work practically unmistakable. — Borja Barbesà .
At the beginning of the inauguration, we also had the presence of TV3 to talk with the artist and discover a little more about his creative world.
You can find all the artworks of Bons souvenirs by clicking here or consult the digital catalogue here.
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You can visit the exhibition until July 26 and from September 3 to 28 during summer time (closed in August).