On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Albert Ràfols Casamada, artist, painter, poet, humanist, educator and founder of EINA, three exhibitions of his work have been inaugurated.
On the one hand, the Joan Prats Gallery presents De la rialla Del crit. Elegia del retorn, an exhibition curated by Rosa Pera, which also features the artists Mar Arza, Anna Irina Russell and Pere Llobera. The exhibition, open from 30 November to 27 January, brings together a selection of pieces and proposes a contemporary reading of the artist's work.
As Rosa Pera comments: "Exhibiting Albert Ràfols Casamada's work today means delving into the work of one of the artists who are understood to be pillars of Catalan contemporary art, present in the main Catalan public and private collections and equally represented in other important national and international collections. As a whole, his art speaks to us about us, about the cultural substrata that have nourished us. Looking at his paintings and drawings, reading his poems and writings, helps us to understand ourselves, in part, as an artistic community.
When I attended a few months ago the inauguration of the celebration at EINA of the centenary of the birth of Albert Ràfols Casamada, one could perceive in the atmosphere his imprint, through the materials and documents that traversed not only his pictorial work, but also the relevant pedagogical contribution he made, together with Maria Girona".
Ràfols Casamada. Salomon Way, 1989
On the other hand, the Fundació Palau in Caldes d'Estrac presents the exhibition Ràfols Casamada. El passeig del poeta, the relevance of writing in the life of the artist, who wrote his first poems and painted his first paintings when he was only fourteen years old. The exhibition, curated by Bernat Puigdollers, can be visited from 11 November to 11 February.
Also at the EUDE Gallery is the exhibition Ritmes i Espais with an exhibition of drawings and engravings by Albert Ràfols Casamada from 1979 to 2006.
Cover image: Ràfols Casamada. Egyptian Nights, 1988