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What is behind a portrait and what is real? Who interprets? Does the meaning or a portrait go beyond that of its literal presentation?.

An occasion to think about the work of art as a factor that creates space. The syntactic relationship masterpiece favours this proposal. The space established by the work of art is defined by what it transmits to us, by that which makes us know about the sense o f the being and of the evidence of the world. Being, world, presentation and representation are the element in play in this dialogue to be constructed during the seminar.

The seminar is defined as a practice for the creation of instruments of analysis of artistic text and is planned as a space for discussion and debate about the relations, between art, memory and thought, taking as a reference the experience of the artists and works that form part of the current exhibition of the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Art of Barcelona, so as to articulate contents, discourse and aesthetic language. This modality of work will allow us to modify the course of the programme according to the intellectual and professional interests of the participants.

PROGRAMME

MONDAY 20

4.00pm – 6.00pm. Montserrat Rodríguez, psychoanalyst. Who interprets? We open the seminar with this question to investigate about the declaration of meaning in the portrait. Fragments of ‘Urgencies’ by Raymond Depardon and ‘Portraits’ by Columna Villarroya.

6.00pm-8.00pm. Javier Codesal, plastic artist. Following a chronological criteria he will show different audiovisual and literary works in which portraits and self-portraits are highlighted. Presentation of ‘Legionary Saturday’ and ‘Hand reading’.

Tuesday 21

4.00pm – 6.00pm. Montserrat Rodríguez. What is there that is contingent and what is real in a portrait? The Pre-Columbian portrait and the portrait of Álex Francés.

6.00pm – 8.00pm. Javier Codesal will present ‘Mario and Manuel’, ‘Manuel has been born’ and ‘Honeymoon trip.

Wednesday 22

4.00pm – 6.00pm. Javier Codesal will present ‘Menese’ and ‘Longevos’.

6.00pm – 8.00pm. Shula Eldar, psychoanalyst, will interview the artists.

Thursday 23

4.00pm – 6.00pm. Montserrat Rodríguez. Meaning and narrative. ‘Portraits’ by Jorge Ribalta and ‘Roads’ by Javier Codesal.

18h.-20h. Álex Francés, plastic artists, will look at the genesis of the portrait and the body as a portrait. Photographs from 1999 to 2003.

Friday 24

16h.-20h. Álex Francés. The portrait as a body. Videos: ‘Female father’, ‘Child that’, ‘Good light’ and ‘Back to front portrait’, and two photographic series: ‘Mothers and daughters’ and ‘The ten commandments’.