Presented as a story, Alberto Carrera Blecua (1952-2017) immerses those who visit the exhibition hall of the Provincial Council of Huesca, in A round trip tripof return and without return, where each port and each shipwreck remember that the true destination of each trip is the discovery of oneself.
Round trip trip It is the exhibition project with which the DPH pays tribute to the life and work of this artist, and does so under the thread of the inner trip, in which they live together The most recent and unpublished pieces with other works produced in the decade prior to his death.
The sample Alberto Carrera Blecua. Round trip tripthat It opens today, at 7:00 p.m.she is curated by Pía Michot and Javier Carrera, who have presented her to the media accompanied by the deputy of Culture of the DPH, Carlos Samperiz, who explained that Carrera Blecua “made artistic and cultural history in the city, represented it and put it on the map of contemporary art.”
The artist’s relationship with the DPH crossed several times throughout different stages. In 1988, with The tripin 2007 with a retrospective and the wink to Africa derived from South Pyrenees. “Therefore, this recognition is important, this value and this tribute To Alberto Carrera Blecua, with which they claim different moments of his life with which that introspective, humanistic and deep trip is sought which is proposed from our look and of the one who visits it, ”said Samperiz.
Pía Michot has described the “beautiful” project, and both for her and Javier Carrera has also been “a personal trip in which we have met Alberto’s work, and to which we wanted “Intense and happy”, is “this story, this literary discourse”, which It is structured in three acts, in addition to the prologue and the epilogue, in which visitors embark on a journey and navigate the invisible landscapes of the mind.
Through different artistic media, the works of Alberto Carrera Blecua, play with the idea of ”The tripthat exhibition that was a real revolution because it was also a performative act. It was the great first that was made in this room, he went out, invaded the urban space, went to the Plaza de Navarra to the old bus station … “. The Oscenses got up and found“ with the painted city of Ocher, with the ground full of blue footprints, with the intervened space. It was a way to enter contemporary language, these new vocabularies, and in this possibility of approaching art in all its versions, ”recalled Pía Michot.
Javier Carrera has influenced that The trip It was the moment in which his father “made the decision to fully devote himself to art“, And wanted to” close that return, which is the consequence of that trip. “
Round trip trip It is established as an “opera”. The prologue, from an emotional context, leads the visitor to meet “with Alberto, with the person”, through a video that occurred after The trip“And in which this artistic project is seen, but also Huesca 40 years ago. Alberto can be seen working in the foreground, his passionate relationship with art, matter and color, and also recognize family, friends or acquaintances,” Minchot advanced.
when the stairs go down, the exhibition itself is reached. The public runs into the picture G7 round trip path and other artistic works that are completed with texts, which extend throughout the exhibition, written by the musician and poet Javier Carnicer to The trip.
In the first actthis story proposes A garden in the sea which begins with a fish ship that floats on a dark background creating a subtle scenographic effect. The sea and the fish that are exhibited are the last work of Alberto Carrera, unpublished so farand that he painted in Alcanar, his last refuge, although his relationship with the sea “was always present. Even though a dry land was in love with the Mediterranean, he always carried him with him in the form of the blile,” Javier Carrera insisted, referring to the installation that his father made in the Plaza Mayor de Alquézar with boats, sand and networks. In addition, you can see two previous and significant works in which fish are also represented.
The second act, The inner trip. Resistance, vulnerability, conflictgather one Selection of works painted between 2013 and 2015 that are part of two exhibitions, Time also paints y In the colors of the nightboth very introspective and with great expressive force, which reflect a journey to the interior of the self: that of the artist, that of the genius and that of the visitor.
Seven Goya self -portraits played by Carrera Blecua, as well as black paintingstogether with the work of the same series and large format, they surprise the viewer, who, when touring the labyrinthine disposition of the room he plays with them and space.
The third act It is the Damn tripwhere the Works that Carrera Blecua painted on their trips to Africa between 2007 and 2013. In the curatorial story it represents the last trip, the trip without return of the people who cross the ocean to reach Europe. Luminous and with a deep experiential background, these paintings denote complaint and commitment. Damn tripa canvas that is part of the collection of the Diputación de Huesca, reflects all this and, in addition to presiding over space, closes the exhibition.
‘The Peace of the Fish’
Alberto Carrera Blecua was a polyhedral artist, who in addition to painting set up facilities. To evoke that facet The Fratelli Moca brothers get out of the street this exposure through the showcase of the Provincial Council of Huesca. The Peace of the Fish It is the result of the creative workshops they performed with Arcadia-Foundation users Agustín Serrate, Valentia and the Ramón J. Sender Public Library
The emotional and conceptual bond that the Moca brothers have had with Alberto Carrera, moves in the direction of these workshops with social, sustainable and creative objectives, in this way in this way in the collective and participatory character of the project By adding agents from different fields.
Con The Peace of the Fish An ode to nature is raised and intends to remember the spirit of interventions in the public space that made a Blecua career in the project The trip In 1988 and that in the words of Antón Castro “Huesca turned into the capital of dreams.”
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