Thekla Sala Arts Center hosts the exhibition Standard maps by sculptor Sergi Aguilar, which opens next Thursday, March 21, at 7 p.m. The exhibition, curated by Teresa Blanche, is included in the Observatori Tecla Sala cycle.
Aguilar (Barcelona, 1946) trained at the Escola Massana and the Institute of Book Arts in Barcelona between 1962 and 1967, and subsequently expanded his training at personal residencies in Paris, London, Prague, Stuttgart and Minorca. He began his work as a sculptor in 1972, working with marble and steel, and since the 1990s he has been translating drawings and photographs of the places he visited into sculptural works. At the beginning of 2000, he abandoned sculpture as a unique working style to focus on the region as the focus of his work.
For Sergi Aguilar, “roads can be the skeleton of the earth,” explored in hundreds of unpublished drawings that rewrite the travel experience using numerous coordinate rings, photographic records, signs, and fragmented maps. The collages and drawings accompany a mural of words about sites in the area. Aguilar is an artist committed to the idea of the active construction of places, a result of the experiences of displacement and fluctuation that come with transit in close complicity with the spatio-temporal phenomena of nature.
This exhibition is part of the cycle of Observatori Tecla Sala, a space aimed at promoting the excavation of active artists with a long career in our country. Observatori Tecla Sala was born with the idea of supporting these creators and publishing their latest works.
Serge Aguilar has participated in solo and group exhibitions in galleries across Europe and the United States, as well as at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. There are also his works in public spaces in cities such as Barcelona, Vila Seca or Vitoria.
Standard maps It can be visited from March 21 to July 14 at the Tecla Sala Art Center, a building located at number 44 on Josep Tradlas y Juan Street.
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