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- Curated by
- Vicenç Altaió i Glòria Picazo
Flux by Pere Noguera
Press release
Flux installation by Pere Noguera
Fundació Joan Miró’s Espai 10, Taste and Differences season
Dates: 30 April to 1 June 1986
Opening: Wednesday 30 April at 7.30 pm
Pere Noguera’s installation Flux is the eighth exhibition in the Taste and Differences season, organised at the Fundació Joan Miró’s Espai 10 in collaboration with the art critic Glòria Picazo and the writer Vicenç Altaió.
The last installation in Barcelona by Pere Noguera (La Bisbal d’Empordà, 1941) was presented as part of the Beast! exhibition in 1984. Traffic brought together three muddy cars in the middle of the Rambla de Santa Mònica, in line with his work practice since 1980 of covering everyday objects with mud and relating them to the landscape and the basic elements of earth, water and fire.
His work has recently evolved towards the use of new materials, although maintaining his interest in landscape and objects. Energy, an installation presented at the Antwerp Sculpture Biennial in 1985, therefore took the car as the defining element of the project and related it to coal.
In his last work, at the Museu Morera in Lleida in February 1986, Noguera presented the installation Pairs of Opposites, based on a landscape painting by the Lleida-born painter Morera, which he transferred to the object-oriented nature of his work.
The installation he is presenting at the Fundació Joan Miró’s Espai 10 originates from a similar approach, for it is also based on a landscape image, in which the reflected landscape reveals an intervention by various objects. Flux represents the transfer of this outdoor landscape to an indoor one through the use of a wide range of objects that will shape a new landscape, one that questions the discrepancies between nature and the industrial world.
Barcelona, 21 April 1986
