Exhibition at the Roman Temple of Vic from September 10 to October 11, 2009
Within the R&D research project Expanded Printing: Repercussions of Digital Media in the Context of Printed Art, in 2007 a sub-group was formed that, under the name of Ars Combinatoria, has worked on the research of digital printing on different supports. This research team is made up of professors M.Mercè Casanovas, Cristina Pastó and Eva Vila, all of whom are linked to the practice and teaching of engraving, lithography and screen printing.
To carry out this research, they have received the support of the Barcelona company EGM.Laboratoris color, specialized in high-resolution digital printing using the DURST RHO 600 and ARIZONA 250GT systems of highly resistant and durable pigmented UV inks.
This exhibition at the Roman Temple in Vic includes a sample of the resulting research where images and concepts have been worked on traditional graphic art supports such as copper, stone and silk screen printing.
Temple Roma de Vic
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, morning 11 to 1 and afternoon 6 to 8
Sundays and holidays, afternoon 6 to 8 / closed on Mondays.
Mercè Casanovas
EL TEMPLE ROMA-nic
The Roman Temple of Vic has undergone various changes throughout its existence. During the Romanesque period, the religious temple was converted into a count's castle and the original structure was hidden until 1882 when the Roman remains were rediscovered. This idea of construction-deconstruction-reconstruction has been the basis of the work that I present and which has consisted of transferring a fragment of the monumental complex of the Romanesque churches of Sant Pere de Terrassa onto a real wall placed in front of one of the walls of the Roman Temple to establish a parallelism between the two buildings.
Eva Vila Pou
Wunderwerke, Paradise and Atmosphere are some of my series of works inspired by the Wunderkammern, those rooms in Europe from the late 16th and 17th centuries that were intended to contain objects and wonders discovered on journeys into the unknown. My particular collection of rarities essentially revolves around the concept of imprint, the primary purpose of all my work. By elevating my own everyday waste to another category, I show a series of images that, from my side as an engraver, I have reversed on copper support.
Cristina Pastó
These images are part of a more complete series and are evocations that emerged from two trips to Japan and China, captured through redrawn photographs: a fragment of the Suzhou Culture Garden, another of the Taizo-in Temple in Kyoto, a handful of rice, ... or the drawing of a chrysanthemum. Specific spaces and places combined with fundamental elements of oriental tradition, configurators of art, thought and culture. I have chosen as a support the translucent and fragile silkscreen fabric, stretched over a metal frame, which reminds me of the semi-transparent and highly resistant oriental paper that serves to delimit and separate the rooms of houses and temples in Japan.
