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Galeria
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Centre Permanent de l´Esmalt |
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ANDREU VILASÍS
Esmaltes para el siglo XXI
Barcelona. Sala
Rovira. Rambla Catalunya, 62
Del 15 de mayo al 16 de junio de 2007
( Look Exhibition )
En diversas ocasiones he hablado de la
plena y entusiasta dedicación del artista Andreu Vilasís al arte del esmalte, en todas
sus vertientes: artísticas, pedagógicas, de investigación histórica, museísticas,
etc; y, como no, de su extraordinario dominio técnico de este arte del fuego.
Ahora puedo hacerlo de nuevo sobre su
vertiente creadora, pues podemos disfrutar de una exposición personal en la Sala Rovira
de Barcelona, entre mayo y junio de este año. |
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Las últimas ocasiones en
que pudimos contemplar su obra fueron en 2003, en Lérida, en una completa exposición,
donde se combinaba dibujo y esmalte. En el texto de presentación intuimos entonces un
nuevo concepto para el nuevo milenio, como etapa compendio de las anteriores, potenciadora
del oficio, algo que se nos confirma ahora y que nos permite precisar que ello no ha sido
en detrimento de la creatividad. Después en Barcelona, pudimos apreciar nuevamente
trabajos de esta etapa en junio de 2005, coincidiendo con la exposición homenaje que sus
discípulos le dedicaron con motivo de su jubilación como profesor de esmalte en la
Escuela Llotja, después de 35 años de docencia. Andreu Vilasís creó en 1970 la
especialidad de esmalte en la Llotja, Escuela Superior de Arte y Diseño de la Generalitat
de Catalunya y fue además Subdirector y Director de la misma durante diez años. La
retrospectiva tuvo lugar en los locales del Paseo de Gracia, que aún ocupaba Artesania
Catalunya, ocasión magistralmente comentada por el crítico Josep M. Cadena.
Nuevamente el corazón de la ciudad recibe la obra reciente de Andreu Vilasís en la
prestigiosa Sala Rovira de la Rambla de Cataluña, que tradicionalmente acoge dibujantes y
esmaltistas de la “Escola de Barcelona”.
En esta ocasión pues, el trabajo creativo
en esmalte al fuego no ha debido compartir tiempo con la generosa vocación de enseñante
del artista. Fruto de esta dedicación son las obras de esta nueva etapa del siglo XXI,
mimadas, pensadas, elaboradas cuidadosamente, serenas y reposadas. El formato más
uniforme y más reducido, permite al espectador la contemplación íntima y pausada , sin
efectismos, abarcar los pequeños detalles, esta vez más depurados. Algunas, menos
preciosistas, son obras rítmicas, en que la línea y la composición predominan sobre la
temática; casi musicales, dado el juego de línea y color.
Los temas son excusas. Nosotros vemos
referentes y homenajes a los grandes artistas reseguidos largamente en periplos
museísticos ( klimt, Leonardo, Gargallo, Moreau, Redon, Jawlensky, el art decó, egipto o
los ordenes clásicos griegos...), pero el artista no es consciente de ello, su arte es
intemporal y abstracto, vestido de figuración.
A destacar, de esta etapa, la importancia
compositiva global, que incluye las formas en madera, las cuales son parte integrante e
ineludible de un todo: cruzan los esmaltes, caladas, pulidas, tintadas, barnizadas o
enceradas y se complementan entre si. A veces esmaltes cabalgan los elementos de
ebanistería. Éstos, aquí imprescindibles, no deben entenderse como un marco o soporte
de presentación. Son el límite entre el espacio real y el mundo del artista, que nos
habla a los ojos, sentidos y mente. Las piezas se conciben como esculturas de pared o
dibujos corpóreos.
Andreu Vilasís elabora en el 2007 obras
delicadas, vibrantes de color, en técnica mixta en esmalte vitrificable sobre cobre, y
maderas. Las podemos considerar, dentro del espacio evolutivo del artista más depuradas,
coloristas pero sobrias y de gran intensidad vital.
La técnica predominante, la que le es más propia, el esmalte pintado con inclusión de
grisallas de ópalo, su especialidad, pallones de metal precioso, esmaltes transparentes y
opacos fusionándose con las maderas coloreadas. Excelente combinación de materias que se
han dejado querer por las hábiles y sensibles manos del artista.
Una lección magistral de arte y esmalte de las arte decorativas del siglo XXI.
Dra. Núria López-Ribalta, especialista en
esmalte. |
Rosa Gelpí: ( Look
Exhibition )
FOC Gallery in its virtual gallery has the pleasure to present the work and the artist's
enameller current exhibition of Rosa Gelpí. Although, as all incipient artist in their
artistic beginnings hesitates between several techniques and concepts until finding their
own one on the expression way that identifies them, we would say that Rosa Gelpí already
from their beginnings in the appearance of the world of the art imposed a creation unit in
their work that, after their long artist life she maintains their characteristics that
define her. It doesn't mean that Rosa's work has not matured and evolved toward a
simplification of lines and expressions that summarize and they express in one alone, a
lot more than those that before needed for the same result.
Some maybe will attribute to Rosa's Gelpí work an excessive anecdote content without
noticing that this is exactly their inspiration world for their fine poetic sensibility
that vibrates and it is nurtured in fact and almost exclusively of the human contour that
surrounds she, it moves her, it makes her happy or sad. |
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As the art critic Josep M.
Cadena says in the presentation of the catalog of this exhibition from Rosa to which
refer:.. She observes, captures (...), she consents to the different states of spirit of
the other ones and she is happy or she saddens... " and that then she translates so
much in her paintings or drawings as in enamel with fire on metals. |
Rafael Arroyo Villemur: ( Look
Exhibition )
Foc Gallery presents in this occasion the work of the enameller Rafael Arroyo. Formed
firstly in the workshop of Consol MASCAREÑAS, one of the most active of Barcelona in the
years 50 i 60, he specialized in the jeweler's enamelling and worked for the best ones in
Barcelona. It enlarged studies in the Llotja School of Barcelona.
It highlights in the cloisonné technique and on plique-a-jour.
Nevertheless he cultivates a personnel line of art works in artistic creation and in mixed
techniques that we present now here and that we are sure they will make the delights of
all those that visit this virtual exhibition.
A group of imaginative, amusing and impossible characters looks at us from its delicate
copper structure with avid and curious eyes.
The textures and the dermal surfaces covered with preciosity seduce us on a works that in
reduced size are as small jewels and in more measure they enter in the land of the
sculpture.
A singular work and differentiated that personalizes this creator's work in enamel with
fire on metals which has opened a door of the many that the art and the fire allows us. |
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VI th INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ENAMELLING "WORLD OF
ENAMELLING" SALOU 2005 THE DISH: From 2 until July 31th 2005.
( Look Exhibition )
We celebrate a new edition of these defined
international exhibitions as. The World of Enamelling that, initiate modestly as national
in the year 1985, they have gone being internationalized progressively and consolidating
in the incomparable mark of the Torre Vella of Salou. Chronologically biennials, excepting
a lapsus of some years for reasons of the segregation Vilaseca-Salou villages, this year
2005 a 20 years of these manifestations dedicated to the world of enamel are completed
then. A good cake with 20 candles could be made to celebrate this anniversary. It is
encouraging to check like after this effort maintained in these two decades, each new
edition represents a so much participation growth of countries, as of participants and
works. It is curious to check as arriving to the 20 years of a manifestation it has meant,
in many cases, the disappearance of many of these or similar activities. A paradigmatic
fact can find it in the magnificent ones Biennial of enamelling of Limoges that, as a song
of dying swan, when completing this anniversary they disappeared. |
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For what
concerns us, we would not want and we will make the entire possible so that, this
malediction, is not fulfilled the biennial of Salou. As information to the readers will
say that in this sixth exhibition of Salou we have been received more than 350 works of 20
countries of the world from those that, once carried out the previous selection, they are
exposed only near 200 works because the selection should have been very rigorous given the
available space to make it worthily. Already from the first international exhibition the
participation was conditioned to a topic or forced unique format, that besides providing
an unit to the sample and of facilitating the justness in the grant of prizes, it has
allowed to check the wide and varied creative capacity of the artists enamellers before
the obligation of sticking to a topic and an established format. In this current edition
the topic has been the plate. This way in the exhibition it will be very nice to
contemplate real china of decorations and technical very enriching. Moreover the enjoyment
of the lovers of the art of the enamel, we believe that these biennial should mean a lot
for our enamellers for the fact of bringing home the last achievements of many foreign
enamellers, allowing them to see technical and concepts varied that otherwise would behave
some almost impossible multiple displacements. We advise the visit then to the exhibition,
an event, we believe, of thanking. |
MIGUEL CAAMAÑO. ( Look
Exhibition )
It is presented in Foc Gallery in this
first virtual sample of our Permanent Center of Enamelling Art.
We want to give him the welcome and the
opportunity that this way offers us at the moment to give to know the work of artists and
artisans, of any place to everybody. |
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It is this
way that we receive this author's work from Lugo, in the green Galicia that historically
it has given enamellers since the Celtic ones settled down and they rooted the tradition
goldsmith in these humid lands. The work of Miguel Caamaño, enameller jeweller, won't
surprise us for stridencies neither audacities, before it will comfort us from the optics
from the craft love, the neatness and the professionalism of somebody that looks for the
beauty of the simple and daily things and that he still falls in love with a nature that
he offers us the art in butterfly form, flower or grass strand.
From the simplicity, the careful work and
the desire of surpass and to learn he offers a group of jeweller's creations, wearable,
young and refreshing that are, in Lugo, the test of the survive and the future of the
technique of fire enamel on metals.
Núria López Ribalta.
Barcelona, March of 2005 |
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