The exhibitions, when it is day again
We make one of the possible tours through the exhibitions inaugurated these days and that will be able to be seen during the next months
PalmaLa Nit de l’Art always fills Palma with exhibitions and people who come to celebrate. But it ends, and the galleries remain open. The shows inaugurated these days offer a good opportunity to return calmly, look at the works without rushing, and discover proposals that deserve a visit beyond the Night. Below, we take a tour among the many possible ones of some of the most outstanding exhibitions shown by the city's galleries.
At Kewenig, the meeting between Fabrizio Plessi and Bernardí Roig acquires a special significance. The dialogue between the two artists, which starts from the relationship that Roig established with the oratory of Sant Feliu, now becomes a kind of homage to Plessi, who passed away recently. A pioneer of video art and multimedia installations, the Italian artist made water, fire, technology, and time the essential materials of his work. Roig, for his part, explores the human figure, light, and the tension between presence and absence. The encounter allows us to think about memory, perception, and what art is capable of keeping alive.
The Baró gallery presents an exhibition by Alexandre Farto, known as VHILS, a Portuguese artist who makes destruction a form of creation. He works on doors, walls, posters, and other surfaces, which he erodes, cuts, or hollows out until faces and figures appear. His works speak of memory and transformation: the images emerge from the matter, as if they had always been there, waiting to be discovered.
At Pep Llabrés, José María Yturralde allows us to approach the trajectory of one of the great names of geometric experimentation in the Spanish State. His painting investigates the relationships between color, form, light, and space, and questions the limits of pictorial language. An exhibition to look at carefully and let the visual structures transform perception.
The 6a gallery and workshop hosts an exhibition by Juan Suárez, a veteran and solid painter who has developed a career linked to the search for diverse geometries, the relationships between space and light, and the possibilities of color. His is a proposal that vindicates the capacity of art to open spaces for contemplation.
Pelaires, for its part, dedicates Espinturalidad to painting and its ability to reinvent itself. The exhibition brings together works by highly contemporary classics, such as André Butzer, Luis Gordillo, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Jana Schröder, and Christoph Steinmeyer, artists who, from different languages and generations, have questioned the conventions of the pictorial act. The result is a defense of painting as a territory of freedom, experimentation, and conflict. At the same time, in the Pelaires Cabinet, Sal divina adivina, by Claudia Peña Salinas, proposes a look at memory, territory, and history. The Mexican artist works with objects, installations, and research processes that establish connections between Mexico's pre-Hispanic past and the present. A more intimate exhibition, yet full of layers and stories.
Finally, 30 NITS 30, from the Xavier Fiol gallery, focuses on the trajectory of the gallery itself, which has been present at the Nit de l'Art since its first edition. Over three decades, it has contributed to giving visibility and continuity to a long list of artists. The exhibition is also a way to review a history made of complicities, bets, and relationships that have gone far beyond the opening nights.
There are a hundred artists in fifty exhibitions left by the Nit de l'Art. So, beyond the Night, we have the possibility to return and discover that work that, in the midst of the celebration, might have gone unnoticed.
