Antoni Tàpies. The Practice of Art | Opening programme

Antoni Tàpies The Practice of Art will be opened on July 19, 2024,  at 7 p.m., with an event curated by Imma Prieto and Judith Barnés, which will feature the participation of Blanca Llum Vidal and Los Sara Fontán; Lolo&Sosaku and the tribute to Mika Vainio.

Programme

· Blanca Llum Vidal and Los Sara Fontán. Poetic action

Public presentation of the eighth “Tapies’ Chairs” programme. An action that will modulate textures, process voices and give sound to what perhaps was not intended to be music. Summoning a lot of authors, the poet and the musicians will try to transform the word into rhythmic matter and extract sounds from things to build a story. The chair, like Tàpies, will not only be an idea. It will be, above all, an object and reality to think about, stir, meditate on.

· Interlude. Tribute to Mika Vainio

As an interlude, the work of Mika Vainio Sondear (Probe)  will allow us to hear what sounds in real time on the roof of the museum with the sculpture by Antoni Tàpies Núvol i Cadira (1990). This sound installation by the Finnish artist, created in 2001 as part of the exhibition Discourse architectures, was reactivated for the project Engagement within the framework of the Sónar 2022 festival, which once again collaborates with the museum for this inauguration.

· Lolo & Sosaku. Sound piece Tribute to Antoni Tàpies

Using a set of machines and a vintage piano, belonging to the composer and musical theorist Josep Barberà i Humbert, a sound space will be built that will represent Tàpies’ relationship with the music of Luigi Nonno or Giacinto Scelsi, among others. To do this, the piano in question will be manipulated with the intervention of machines, the human voice and the texts that Tàpies wrote in his paintings. The entire proposal will feature the participation of the soprano Ximena Agurto and the multidisciplinary artist Renata Gelosi.

· Cocktail on the terraces with music from DJ Bla&co

[Image: Piano & Machines, Lolo & Sosaku, 2020.]