Rhythm and Substances

As part of the exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Imagination of the World, the Museu Tàpies presents the third activation in the cycle A Hatch in the Void, a series of events conceived by writer Marc Caellas to activate the materials presented in the exhibition, highlighting the epochal spirit in which we find ourselves.

This time, Caellas invites guitarist and improviser Juanma Trujillo to share a poetry and music recital that revisits the spirit of the historic evenings of the Club 49, a group of artists and intellectuals who, in the forties and fifties, renewed the cultural scene in Barcelona with talks, recitals and avant-garde actions.

The duet will recall essential voices of 20th-century poetry, such as Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Joan Perucho, J. V. Foix and Juan Eduardo Cirlot, establishing a living dialogue between word and sound. Reading and music will make up a shared space for discovery and experimentation, true to the transgressive spirit that characterised the Club 49 and to the way Antoni Tàpies saw art: as a constant questioning and as a window on the world.

This event offers the audience an intimate, immersive experience, one that invites listening in a different way, letting oneself be surprised and inhabiting a space where poetry and music not only meet, but enrich one another.