Poet, narrator and visual artist, Guillem Viladot (1922-1999) was a free, energetic, critical and scathing creator, who moved from the avant-garde to the fringes of the fashions and currents of the moment, making his town, Agramunt (Urgell), “a trench and a trampoline”, and from the rural world in which he grew up, “the pantry” from which he extracted river stones that he later placed on small wooden bases, pitchers, rakes, sulfate machines and disused farming sickles , to which he gave an unexpected poetic twist. His singular and radical work, made from the geographical periphery, is now displayed in Guillem Viladot, the incessant experimentation, an exhibition that can be visited at the Espais Volart of the Fundació Vila Casas until October 2.
The show is Guillem Viladot's first solo exhibition in Barcelona since he presented Iconografies de l'ús i de l'oci in 1980 at Galeria Maeght and it is the central exhibition of Any Viladot, which has not without controversy been left out of the official commemorations of the Generalitat. Pau Minguet, its curator and director of the Fundació Lo Pardal, wanted to transfer to the Volart rooms the same feeling experienced by visitors to the Agramunt museum, that is, an authentic immersion in the Viladotian imaginary, its “indiscipline” and “ the great variety of artistic registers in which he immersed himself throughout his life”. “Her overflowing creativity and relentless experimentation of his are the defining features of his work,” he sums up.
Divided into ten thematic areas ( Rurality , River Stones , Collages , Iconografies de l'ús i de l'oci , Selfs , Cutouts, Musical Objects and Paintings), the exhibition includes, in addition to his corporeal poems, found objects, assemblages that he named company objects (a cane, a pair of tongs, a paella cooked with screws...), sculptures made with leftover material from the metallurgical industry, musical instruments and paintings, in addition to 16 publications.
