Luis Gordillo and Jorge Carrión inaugurate two new artistic interventions at Coster Art and Nature

PalmaThe Coster Art i Natura – Centre d'Investigació i Producció Artística, in Pollença, inaugurates this Friday two new exhibition proposals that reinforce its commitment to contemporary art and the dialogue between creation, nature, and thought. On the one hand, it presents Transmigración de almas, an installation by Luis Gordillo, one of the most influential artists in Spanish contemporary art. On the other, writer and curator Jorge Carrión intervenes the center with Sistema nervioso (A distributed library), a project that transforms the space into an expanded library linked to the landscape.

The two inaugurations are part of the PHOF Mallorca PhotoFest program and will take place this Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Coster Art i Natura facilities.

Luis Gordillo moves his visual universe to Pollença

The main novelty is Transmigración de almas (2020), a large-format print canvas adaptation (284 × 1,182 centimeters) of the project that Luis Gordillo developed at the request of the cultural department of El Corte Inglés for ARCO 2025.

The installation invites the visitor to immerse themselves in a visual universe marked by the superposition of painting, photography, and digital processes, where color, movement, and memory constantly dialogue. Gordillo himself defines the work as "a blast of color and energy, with a very important movement and temporality" within his artistic career.

Born in Seville in 1934, Luis Gordillo is considered one of the great innovators of contemporary Spanish painting. With more than six decades of career, he has exhibited in some of the main museums and art centers in Spain, Germany, France, the United States, Brazil, and Mexico, and has been distinguished with awards such as the National Prize for Plastic Arts, the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts, and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts.

A library that unfolds through the forest

Coster Art i Natura's fifth artistic intervention arrives from writer Jorge Carrión with Nervous System (A Distributed Library), a conceptual proposal that offers a new reading of the center based on the relationship between books, trees, and landscape.

The project takes as its starting point the idea that libraries and forests share the same logic of interconnection. Based on this metaphor, Carrión proposes distributing books in different points of the enclosure so that they dialogue with the works of the artists who are part of the permanent collection.

The intervention is structured around Lookout Tower, a piece by Amador, which becomes the core of a central library from which this network of dispersed readings is organized. According to Carrión, the proposal is inspired by the functioning of forests as complex systems for information exchange between trees, fungi, lichens, and other organisms, and transfers this idea to the field of culture.

With this initiative, Coster expands its function as a space dedicated to research and artistic production to also become a place for reading, archiving, and reflection. The project aims to foster a critical view of the relationship between culture and nature, especially in a context marked by the debate on sustainability and the impact of artificial intelligence.

The two proposals consolidate Coster Art i Natura as one of the reference spaces for contemporary creation in Mallorca, combining exhibitions of international figures with projects that explore new ways of understanding territory, art, and knowledge.