Joan Brossa, protagonist of two collective exhibitions: one in Mexico and the other at the Prats Nogueras Blanchard Gallery in Barcelona – Joan Brossa Foundation
At the end of this 2024, several pieces by Joan Brossa have participated in two collective samples that have made us very happy: a collective in Mexico about poetic experimentation in the 60’s and a friendship and a friendship Creation with Chema Madoz at the Prats Nogueras Blanchard gallery in Barcelona.
The Museum Cabañas de Guadalajara (Mexico) inaugurated on November 29 the exhibition curated by Manuel Borja-Villel and entitled Reading for contact. Poética and experimentation in Spain (1962-1972). This sample, performed in the framework of the International Book Fair (Thread) 2024comprises a whole decade in which writing in Spain acted as a vector for experimentation through painting, music, poetry, theater and cinema. In this interdisciplinary and experimental conception of poetic writing, Joan Brossa has a particular representation and, in this exhibition, a resounding presence through visual poems, poems objects, books and a selection of literary poems. The exhibition will be open until February 23.
The Prats Nogueras Blanchard gallery has dedicated its Barcelona space to an exquisite exhibition on the relationship of the images and objects of Joan Brossa and Chema Madoz, Gathered sets. The installation, designed by Emiliana Design Studio, for the first time brings together works by the two creators: photographs by Chema Madoz and objects by Joan Brossa, relating the correspondence games that are generated between the pieces and the artists. The exhibition can still be visited until January 25, and Maria Canelles, co-director of the Free Arts Center, has been responsible for the writing of the text of Sala, of which we leave here a fragment:
When Jordi Coca asks Joan Brossa what a poem is, Brossa answers: “A concentration of language and a rehearsal of correspondences”. The way they have to look, and represent, the reality of both Joan Brossa and Chema Madoz seems to be looking at all the time to generate more and more correspondences, to invent them. To force them, if appropriate. As if the relationship between the individual and the nature (the reality, in short, that surrounds us), is truly the center of their research and that the most fruitful way they have to deepen this relationship is to show that everything is interconnected and That, therefore, any element of reality (however insignificant it is -a shoe, a light bulb, a piece of chess) has a significant correspondence in the cosmos. The idea that plans above Brossa and Madoz objects is that of a unified world in which anything can be transformed into any other. Therefore, the summary of analogies, which is his objective work, is still an exercise in cataloging reality, which is obvious, but especially those that are only visible through poetic eyes. Rocks, pebbles, trees, rain, water drops, or the moon have their equivalences in objects typical of the purest everyday life. In things, go.
