The uncompromising art of Pep Admetlla and Jordi Amagat is once again participating in a joint exhibition that opens this Saturday in the Castle of Benedictine in Castell d’Aro. it’s aboutH-103a name that comes directly from the concept of the chamber of horrors of the Ministry of Love in the novel 1984 by George Orwell and what completes – or not, they warn – an exhibition cycle that began in the 1990s.
Without any desire for continuity regarding theH-101 which was seen in the old schools of Begur il in 1995‘H-102 they did that at the Valvi Foundation in 2010, The two artists from Girona take up the Orwellian idea again in order to defy it two completely independent works, but which “breathe the common idea of creation with complete freedom”says Admetlla.
“When we see how these totalitarian and loose ‘new order’ governments want to manipulate us (and they do), ‘we Refusing to be docile and treacherous prisoners, we continue in spite of everything in the insubordinate act of creating without pattern, law or flag», assure the two creators in the catalog of the exhibition that can be seen in Castell d’Aro until October 1st.
Everyone looks at the new from their own point of view, with their own but also shared considerations H-103, the room of torture in a time marked by health, natural or social crises and wars of all kinds “A lot of sarcasm and irony, but also self-criticism,” says Admetlla.
Pep Admetlla exhibits Notes for an anatomy lessona sequel from him anatomy studies, a long-standing job that has often led him to work hand-in-hand with neurosurgeon and, until recently, dean of Girona University’s medical faculty, Joan San. All these works are materialized in the exhibition with works from different periods, some of which are already on display but also unpublished: large and small format drawings and sculptures that have already been exhibited a double gaze, artistic and scientific, covering the human figure, like a Lady Macbeth-inspired piece or the notes in her workbook during confinement.
As for Jordi Amagat, he mainly presents painting. Collected under the title factory touris a selection of pieces with curved shapes created between 2014, the date of the oldest work. Composition and Angelsand to this day as a black series of six paintings or The thief of souls.
