VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
Las Cells They are the best-known works of the Franco-Israeli Absalon, a series of minimalist geometric constructions, immaculate white, that the artist designed and built to his measure to be able to inhabit them in six different cities around the world. Died young of AIDS, con 28 years, and he did not get to live in them, but they have remained for the history of art as a polysemic study (that is to say, open, reinterpretable) of the relationship of the body with architecture. The IVAM has reconstructed three of them to scale 1:1 in Absalon, Absalon to invite the public to enter, go up and breathe inside, how the artist himself would have done it. The exhibition has been in the making for two years., but it comes at a time when the lockdowns resulting from the pandemic have made us rethink our relationship with the home and our way of living.. Not done on purpose. Although, in this case, Absalon's solitude is CHOSEN and “spiritual”, to confront social pressure and the perversities of capitalism. According to the curators of the exhibition, Absalon did not want to leave the world, but to live it differently, practicing an art that appears simple but full of complexities. As added value, the curators of the exhibition establish affiliations and links with the work of six other contemporary artists: Alain Buffard, Dora Garcia, Robert Gober, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Mona Hatoum, Laura Lamiel and Myriam Mihindou. AU
