Teresa Romanillos (Barcelona, 1960) is a cardiologist who practices at Sant Celoni Hospital. Martí Boada (Sant Celoni, 1949) is a scientist, environmentalist and geographer. They have two vital things in common: science and the Montseny mountain. Boada has made exhaustive studies of the flora, fauna, climate and forestry use of Montseny, and they both find artistic inspiration in the mountain and its surroundings.
In the work on show here the two artists have pooled their interests: Boada’s in-depth knowledge of the area, and Romanillos’s sense of artistic enquiry which turns her images into visual poetry. The works communicate and complete each other, thanks to the gaze of the viewer, who provides their own background and with it their own point of view.
Boada and Romanillos consider the viewing of the work a decisive point in its development, given that to a certain degree what we see or observe becomes part of us and what we have seen before conditions how we view new images. It is an on-going process which is unique and personal to each one of us. At the same time, on viewing a landscape or any other image it becomes part of us and part of the baggage we carry around with us in the course of our lives, in a process of mimesis between the viewer and what is viewed.
In this exhibition Boada and Romanillos display images that are intuitive and personal, stripping the gaze of any previous intentionality, they border on non-figurative representation. The image is divested of all content and becomes strokes: the strokes, words; and the words, emotions.