The exhibition "Mapas ametrics" by the sculptor Sergi Aguilar is presented as part of the cycle Obervatori Tecla Sala.
Sergi Aguilar (Barcelona, 1946) sculptor, plastic artist and also historical teacher of Eina in the last decades. He is an artist committed to the idea of an active construction of place, as a result of the experiences of displacement and fluctuation involved in travelling in close complicity with the spatio-temporal phenomena of nature. Since the seventies, he has developed an extensive work as a geometrician of cardinal orientations, reflected in a structural language that is permeable to the situations of the space. This is the reason for his habitual attraction to passages, topography, atmospheres and marks.
The artist's journeys over the last twenty years to anonymous places (particularly empty places in Libya, on the border between Chile and Bolivia, in Nicaragua or Algeria, with their "captivating absences") have enabled him to study in depth the effects of the journey. In his direct interpellations to the geography travelled for days, he reaffirms the persistent shifting of the horizon, the continuous dance of distances, the non-linearity of the route, the infinite and changing dunes..., the undeniable provisionality of the references.
For the artist, "routes could be a skeleton of the earth", explored in hundreds of unpublished drawings that rewrite the experience of the journey with its repeated loops of coordinates, photographic records, signs and fragmented maps. Indications permanently erased and restored again to retain time in the spatial continuum that is activated in the journey.
A mural of words about locations in the territory accompanies the sets of graphics and drawings. The particular play of synergies and counterpoints in the chaining of concepts takes us into the unfathomable geopoetic dimension of the Atlas.
- Opening: Thursday 21 March at 7 pm.
- Curated by: Teresa Blanch.
- Exhibition until 14 July 2024.