Landscape ?
Nico Baumgarten, Clara Boj & Diego Díaz, Alfonso Borragán & Lluís Sabadell i Artiga
From 7th May to 29th August 2010. (Opening 6th May 19.30h at Bòlit-LaRambla).
What is, in the final analysis, the landscape? Does it exist by itself in nature, or does it seem to be a construct of the viewer? Does it reflect only a vision or can it correlate with experience and emotion?
Landscape? is presented as a kick-start to these and other questions, within proposals rooted in territory, that through their learning experiences try to clarify whether the landscape is evoked, revealed or constructed, and if the destruction of the landscape is the common element. It could be precisely that this ambivalence generates every landscape.
Through experience of, and prospecting for, spatial and phenomenological categories that place the landscape in a natural, urban and emotional gradient, in Landscape? aspects like progress, identity or the public realm are approached, but also from their affirmation and their negation , with a discourse exploring antagonistic possibilities.
Since construction and destruction are two faces of the same coin, to what extend do they impact upon and relate to social, economic and political transformations, within the countryside and vice-versa? How much must one belong to a territory to participate in the creation or destruction of its landscape?
Curated by Rosa Pera