teresarius · marxants i promotors d'art

JULY-AUGUST 2008


Jordi Tortosa, off film Private View: Thursday 3rd of July at 7.30pm Dates: 3rd to 31st of July 2008 This summer Jordi Tortosa, plastic artist born in Sant Cugat del Vallès in 1959, presents his artwork at the Espai Cultural Francolí, venue of teresarius: promotors d'art, where we will enjoy a selection of his oil paintings. Tortosa proposes us a new project, related with one of his fascinations: The cinema. But he makes it in a way different to what perhaps we are accustomed. Tortosa discovers, under the sequence and under the basic goal of the film, the plastic force that there is on the basis of the communication. Jordi Tortosa's reflexion is about the instant, almost as a contrast of the sequence. Tortosa has not aimed for a conceptual work (easy resource to avoid some of the many technical difficulties) but eminently plastic and expressionist. He is not completely faithful to the model and he appeals to the freedom of the artist to modify what he believes necessary. Thus, in some cases, he repositions the scene in other stages (generally Cadaqués) or he adds or takes out elements. Espai Cultural Francolí C/Francolí 13-15 principal, 08006 Barcelona How to get there Opening times: Monday on Friday 10am to 2pm and 4 to 7pm. Saturday by appointment.
WORKSHOPS JULY 2008 Limited seats, make your reservation in advance! Basic course of Photography, practical workshop, use of the camera, basic concepts, parameters to take into account, as to achieve better pictures. Saturday 12th and 19th of July from 10am to 6pm. Price: 95 € (including lunch). Lighting. Day of portrait with model, practical workshop, basic lighting in the study with units of flash and utilization of the flash in requirements. Sunday 26th of July from 11am to 5pm. Price: 95 € (including lunch). For more information and bookings call us at 932 389 877 or check our webpage.

VIRTUAL ART FAIR ARTÍCULA

From the beginning of year the Espai Cultural Francolí has the pride of being part of the prestigious Gremi de Galeries d'Art de Catalunya, constituted in 1978, which is the association linked to the art market that counts on more members in the frame of the Spanish State, more of a hundred members distributed all over the Catalan territory, keeping a constant growth. The function of the GGAC is the protection and promotion of the galleries unionized and, for extension, of the sector, in order to integrate into the social live, creating new sinergies, to relaunch the prestige of the galerist world. Consequently, the cultural life of the whole of the country comes out benefited.

In this frame we have been working during the last year in a new and exciting project: Artícula. Artícula is a permanent virtual fair that represents a great artistic multiplicity, representing the vital trajectory of the Catalan art of the last centuries. In there you will be able to enjoy the work of our artists as well as others represented for other art galleries. We invite you to to be one of the first ones to enjoy it.

SANDRA TURNBULL AT DESIG GALLERY
The erotic shop Art Gallery DESIG of Barcelona presents an exhibition of art created by former director of the band 'Eurythmics', the English artist Sandra Turnbull, titled 'ALL ABOUT EVE'. It is a Visual and Social Documentary that mixes different artistic disciplines and that it is themed about the EMANCIPATION OF THE WOMAN. An extensive period of research so much in the United Kingdom as in the United States and Spain, to highlight the Baghdad Club of Barcelona, it has been part of the process of inspiration of the artist. Turnbull, represented in Barcelona for over two years by teresarius: promotors d'art, is moved by an uncontrolled passion to explain a positive story with her work, trying to join acceptance and provocation. The joy shines through vivid colors and living compositions. Turnbull shows us a new, thrilling and provocative way, to present the nude, highlighting the artistic qualities of its force and the beauty of the body. UNTIL 21ST OF JULY 2008 Openning Times: Monday to Friday 5 to 9pm. Saturdays 11am to 2pm & 5 to 9pm. Galeria Desig: C/Mare de Déu dels Desamparats 14-16, 08012 Barcelona www.desig.org

MARTÍN AT LA COQUERIA
Martín, visual artist born in Seville in 1965 but well established in Barcelona. We will be able to continue appreciating till the end of June his small format artwork, mainly drawings, in the restaurant La Coqueria of the Zaragoza street, in the neighborhood of El Farró in Sant Gervasi, Barcelona. The work of Martín highlights because of the brightness of colors and the simplicity of composition, standing out mainly daily objects and several means of transport, like his searched bicycles, elevating them to the category of art in a cheerful and fun way. La Coqueria UNTIL 31ST OF JULY 2008 Saragossa 66, 08006 Barcelona - www.lacoqueria.com Opening Times: MOnday to Saturday 9am to 4pm and 8pm to 12am

LITERACY GUIDED TOURS IN BARCELONA
ITINERARIES Proposal of itineraries of the Espai Cultural Francolí in collaboration with Coneixerbcn. There are guided walks on foot of a maximum of four hours of duration carried out for official guides and accompanied of explanatory dossiers. It is necessary to book in advance: 651 579 128 / 657 436 467 / info@coneixerbcn.com - La Catedral del Mar by Idelfonso Falcones. Saturday 5th of July at 4.30pm. - La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Saturday 26th of July at 4.30pm. - Rodoreda in Saint Gervasi and Gracia. Saturday 26th of July at 10.30am.


JOAN JOSEP THARRATS (Girona, 1918 – Barcelona, 2001) Spanish painter, engraver and art historian. He is one of the maximum exponents of the UNFORMALISTIC art in Spain. He has carried out numerous mosaics, sculptures and ceramics, which indicates his worry for integrating his art into the architecture, the planning and the landscape. In the field of the engraving he invented the procedure of the "maculatura", mixture of monotype, overprinting, inflamed and manual painting. He was founder of the group Dau al Set in 1948, with what he contributed towards laying the foundations of the plastic renewal from Barcelona. Simultaneously he founded the magazine that took the same name, whose texts he wrote at the same time as he directed the edition until he created a book-object of very high quality. After a related surrealist stage with the Dau al Set, he moved to the informalism in 1954, ordinary ‘tachista’ style that gives more importance to the stain than to the matter, the gestualidad or the space. The colors of his works are warm, of Mediterranean influence. He carried out his studies among Béziers, Girona and Barcelona. Here in 1935 he started his studies in the school Massana, but the Spanish Civil War broke his studies up to 1942, when he reestarted his artistic activity. In 1950 he carried out his first individual exhibition in the galleries Jardín of Barcelona. From 1954 he exposed regularly in the Sala Gaspar of Barcelona, as well as in 1955 in Stockholm and New York, in 1959 in the V Biennial of São Paulo and in the Biennials of Venice of 1960 and 1964. In 1966 he founded the Association of Current Artists. In 1983 received the Cross of Sant Jordi de la Generalitat of Catalonia and in 1994 the National Prize of Plastic Arts of the Ministry of Culture of Spain, depositing that same year in the Real Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi. His work can be seen, among others, in the following museums: MOMA; Museum Guggenheim, New York; Tate Gallery, London; MACBA; National Museum Art Center Queen Sofia, Madrid.


To give art is a splendid way to achieve a touch distinctive and differentiating. The gifts of original pieces and of quality can be the best way to surprise a friend or a customer. This month from teresarius: promotors d'art we want to highlight the works of Berenice, which is the pseudonym that uses the artist María La Placa (La Paz, Bolivia, 1962) for her decorative line. This artist diversifies her work creating unique and unrepeatable decorative objects and paintings. Her work completely elaborated by hand enhances with the presence that distinguishes a creation that although adapts to the environment, it transmits the magic and the energy that objects replayed industrially do not have. She works with different techniques and styles that adapt themselves to the taste and the needs of the customer creating decorative units for any type of environment and at an accessible cost. For 95€ one of these magic sets of chess can be acquired. For orders of more than 10 units the cost comes off reduced. Consult Company Gifts for more ideas.


'Olafur Eliasson. The nature of the things', Foundation Miró, Barcelona. First exhibition of Olafur Eliasson in the Spanish state. The installations of big scale, sculptures and pictures entertain in an elegant way the landscape and the atmosphere of Iceland, country in which his roots are found, at the time which they investigate about the sensory experience that the work generates in the viewer. The exhibition shows about 50 pieces of his artistic production since the year 1993 to the present. Until the 28th September. 'Forgetting Velázquez. The Menines', Museum Picasso, Barcelona. This exhibition wants to put a fundamental part of the collection of the museum in relief, exploring the ties of Picasso with the Spanish pictorial tradition, especially with Velázquez, and proposing new readings about the series Las Meninas through the numerous interpretations and contributions that several contemporary artists have carried out later. Until the 28th September. 'Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia', MNAC, Barcelona. This exhibition, organized for the National Museum of Art of Catalonia in collaboration with the Tate Modern of London, is dedicated to three key artists of the 20th century, three provocative personalities that revolutionized the established artistic canons, marking one before and one afterwards in the world of the art. Until the 21st September. 'Miquel Barceló. The African Work', IMMA, Dublín. This exhibition shows the works of the Catalan artist inspired in his frequent stays in the occidental African, which has been a regiular visitor from 1988 and where he has had a house, in the area Dogon of Mali, since the beginnings of 1990. Including some 90 works, the exhibition spreads on the whole period of his association with the occidental Africa. Until the 28th September.