With the aim of continuing our journey towards the representation of new and up-and-coming artists, we developed a project that showcases the artworks by three artists who, despite having a solid career and a clear vision, are still at the threshold of their creative path. Three artists from different backgrounds and nationalities and who are under 40 years old, an age that has helped them to forge a clear discourse but that allows them to still have many years ahead of them to continue their intellectual and technical investigation.

We have given to each one of these three selected artists their own exhibition floor at the Palau de Casavells, with the idea of offering them the proper space to truly create an immersive experience that represents them and that shows their work on their own terms. Each exhibition floor is designed as a Solo Show, where the artists have developed a concept that is meaningful to them and their practice, including painting, collaborative installations, works on paper, sculpture, and video.

Isabel Servera (Artà, Majorca, 1986) is a conceptual artist working with the pictorial practice and traditional processes, highlighting the artisan techniques of object making from her home town in Mallorca. Her work is an exploration of the limits of textile, painting, mark-making and drawing. She explores the limits of a media, yet pays homage to the original artisans and raw materials, introducing concepts such as collective creation and the idea of the artist as someone who does concrete actions. She proposes overall a dialogue between craft, art and painting.

In this same topic of questioning the reality of the painter, we find the work by Jan Monclús (Lleida, Catalonia, 1987) whose oeuvre depicts the implications of being a contemporary figurative painter nowadays. In a sort of Kantian exercise that puts in evidence the painter questioning the act of painting, Monclús presents oil on canvas works that mull over their own existence and concept. Highlighting the artist’s feelings at the studio, and the many challenges of being an artist.

Following the area of representation of tacit emotions, present recurrently, but never obvious, Juan Narowé (Mariana, Brazil, 1993) plays with bright colors in a contemporary surrealistic dance that portrays feelings of displacement. Born in Brazil, now living in Barcelona, the artist meditates over the different connotations of being surrounded by loved ones that depart, sinuous figures that were there once but that only their shadow remains. The bright and vivid oil colors in contrast with colossal black figures that convey characters recorded only by memory.

In this new exhibition we have selected three remarkable artists who exemplify the promises of Catalonia’s vibrant cultural scene. Each artist, with their distinct artistic lexicon, hails from diverse backgrounds and brings a unique perspective that weaves a narrative transcending conventional boundaries and embracing a plurality of styles, techniques, and inspirations. As they embark on their individual journeys, these artists pay homage to the sanctity of their craft, revering the profound significance of the artistic process in its entirety.
A celebration of the artist that produces, the artist who is aware of the conceptual tacit paradigm of thinking as the only way of making art, and who proposes a journey into understanding the contemporary artist as someone who, besides thinking, feels and experiments with its own identity and reality.

09-09-2023 to 31-10-2023

Palau de Casavells

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17121 Casavells, Girona

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