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Exhibition "Un dimanche après-midi a l'Île de la Grande Jatte" at Catalunya campus CRAI
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This Monday, April 14, the URV Art Classroom invites you to the inauguration of the exhibition "Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte" by artist Lidia Porcar.
You can visit this exhibition in the lobby of CRAI campus Catalunya from April 14 to May 10.
Lídia Porcar fills the notebooks of our childhood with designs from another era. Elevations of modernist architecture, planes of companies that no longer exist, circles and crosses, are distributed between lines and grids, reminding us of the patterned paper in a newborn's room, also of the weightless floating figures of the first video games; he looks for them in magazines, in old books, in the early days of the internet
He enlarges the drawings and spreads them across the windows of the CRAI as part of one of his experiments. As if they were informational posters, or posters calling for a university strike, the gridded sheets conquer this room. Reminding us in a close-up of the brushstrokes of La grande Jatte, or the photographs of Antonioni's Blow Up, Porcar's enlarged figures are distorted; the low resolution muddies the plot, adds layers and meanings
Un dimanche après-midi a l'Île de la Grande Jatte, seems to tell us about the tranquility of an afternoon in a park on the Seine, the apparent innocence and joy of childlike figures, but, if we look closely, it becomes a correct omen, a warning of future violence, ready to be fulfilled.
