Joan Ponç. The Enigma: BARCELONA

Mayoral Galeria d’Art is delighted to present the exhibition "Joan Ponç. The enigma" that will run from 9th of July until the 31rst of August. The exhibition, in collaboration with Pilar Parcerisas, critic and curator of exhibitions, includes a selection of seventeen artworks among which paintings and drawings from the years 1947 to 1968, as well as the documentary about the artist Joan Ponç-J.V.Foix “La pell de la pell” (the skin of the skin) and some complementary documentation from that period of time.

 

Mayoral Galeria d’Art is delighted to present the exhibition “Joan Ponç. The enigma” that will run from 9^th of July until the 31rst of August. The exhibition, in collaboration with Pilar Parcerisas, critic and curator of exhibitions, includes a selection of seventeen artworks among which paintings and drawings from the years 1947 to 1968, as well as the documentary about the artist Joan Ponç-J.V.Foix “La pell de la pell” (the skin of the skin) and some complementary documentation from that period of time.

 

Joan Ponç (Barcelona, 1927- Saint Paul de Vence, 1984) was one of the creators of the magazine Dau al Set with other painters such as: Antoni Tàpies, Modest Cuixart, Joan Tharrats and the poet Joan Brossa and the philosopher Arnau Puig. It is the artist who was more faithful to the principles of the group throughout his career.

 

Mayoral Galeria d’Art is running for second time an individual show at the gallery –the previous one was in 2002-. It’s a good chance to recall his works and his universal talent.

 

“Joan Ponç has been a lonely, cursed and visionary painter; crazy, as some have described him. The Ponç enigma refers not only to his painting but to the hellish depths of the human being, where he plunged to come up purified and redeemed. In order to undertake this journey into the unfathomable hells of this world, he made use of the art of painting, which penetrated into his veins until it became his blood. As he wrote in his Diary of São Paulo: «The funny thing is that precisely this hot blood that painting gives me is the same cold blood that gives me life». Therefore, although hot-blooded and visceral in his painting, he was a realist as regards matters of everyday life.” Says, Pilar Parcerisas.

 

Mayoral Galeria d’Art works to promote the work of artists that represents and works with families to ensure their legacies. This show has been carried out in collaboration of Associació Joan Ponç and his widow, Mar Corominas.

 

Exhibition curated by Pilar Parcerisas.