Thursday 20, December, 2018 18:00H -
Thursday 20, December, 2018
Espais Volart, Barcelona
Manuel Duque was an important painter within the informalist movement in Catalonia. In Paris he was at the forefront of artistic activity and became associated with Nuagisme. In 1960 he was part of the Gallot group, responsible for the first examples of performance art in Spain. He then conceived the concept of the rehabilitation of painting, which took the repetition and rhythms from a view of nature as its starting point.
Maria-Josep Balsach is professor of History of Contemporary Art and academic director of the Chair of Contemporary Art and Culture at the University of Girona (since 1999). She is the author of numerous works theorising on the aesthetics of nineteenth and twentieth century art from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. Of her many publications we can list Esteticisme i decadentisme a la fi de segle [Ed.] (Barcelona, 1988); Hybris i pensament Tràgic (Barcelona, 1990); L'art immaterial d'Arnold Schönberg (Internacional Espais a la Crítica d'Art prize); Modernisme e avantguarda. Picasso, Miró, Dalí i la pittura catalana nell primo Novecento (Milà, 2003) and Joan Miró. Cosmogonies d'un món originari (1918-1939) (Barcelona, 2007) (awarded the Ciutat de Barcelona essay prize). She has written on the aesthetics of María Zambrano and on art and violence in the twentieth century. She is currently working on a book about women painters of the Holocaust in conjunction with the Yad Vashem Archive in Israel. She has curated exhibitions and directed highly respected research groups and projects. She sponsored George Steiner for his honorary doctorate from the University of Girona (2012). She has contributed as an art critic to the Avui, El País and La Vanguardia newspapers. She has also published several volumes of verse including Eprath (with Jaume Plensa) (Barcelona, 1982), Poemes de Brisgòvia (Sabadell, 1992) and Galítzia/Galija (Vic, 2009; Pamplona 2012).
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