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- Gloria Moure
Ràfols-Casamada. Anthological Exhibition: 1957-1985
About the exhibition:
‘Bringing together the work of twenty-eight years, first remembering it and then seeing it again represents an experience of a certain magnitude. You have to choose the pieces that seem the most important to you, the most significant, those that best mark the evolution of your thinking and your disposition, which is not easy at all. There are always works that you remember as important but that are difficult to find, that you believe to be lost. Fortunately, however, they are few and far between, and it is possible to trace the path taken over the years. A path that brings you to where you are now, which is nothing more than a waypoint to get to where you want to go. The place to which you have always wanted to go, even if you have taken different paths in an attempt to arrive there. The place we want to go to is always far away, and perhaps that is its charm, its attraction.’
The aim of this exhibition, which brings together more than one hundred and fifty works and places them in the context of Ràfols-Casamada’s other artistic practices in the fields of teaching, design, theatre and literature, is to review the plastic work of Albert Ràfols-Casamada in the spirit that he himself expressed in these introductory words.
The exhibition has been prepared over a long period of time with the aim of bringing together the most representative and defining aspects of the painter’s evolution, so that both those who have followed his development closely and those who are encountering his work for the first time can grasp the inseparable synthesis in his plastic work of elements that intervene by diluting the concepts of space, time, matter and spirit. Ràfols-Casamada’s work is not the product of ease or of the painter’s abundant gifts; it is the result of ‘a struggle, of tensions, of conflicts’ that have eventually led him to the maturity he has reached today.
This exhibition has benefited from the collaboration of many collectors, museums, galleries and institutions, and we would like to express our gratitude to them for the facilities they have provided.
It has been organised by the Fine Arts Department of the General Directorate of Artistic Heritage in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró, with Gloria Moure as curator-director and the studio of Miguel Milà providing the design.
An important catalogue has been published to accompany the exhibition, with colour illustrations of all the works on display and previously unpublished texts by J. M. Castellet, Oriol Bohigas, F. Calvo Serraller, Tomàs Llorens, Georges Raillard, Gloria Moure and Daniel Giralt-Miracle.
Albert Ràfols-Casamada has produced a special lithograph for this anthological exhibition.
