The UAB offers an exhibition focusing on Picassian poetry
The UAB offers an exhibition entitled "Una suite coral del Doctorat Picasso" as part of the Entre pro/spectives picassianes project, an exhibition organisers define as "a proposal combining the artist's lectures, workshop and museum". The exhibition will be on display until 22 January at the UAB Exhibitions Hall (Communications Library and General Newspaper Archives), from Mondays to Fridays, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Jéssica Jacques: "This is not a traditional exhibition because there will be a lot of movement here."
The exhibition was created in a collaborative and collective manner by different groups of students and researchers from the UAB Department of Philosophy, students from the EINA Centre d'Art i Disseny, and from the PhD programme Doctorat Picasso (Picasso Museum of Barcelona, UAB Department of Philosophy and the University of Picardy Jules Verne). The exhibition will be on display until 22 January 2024 and open to the public Mondays to Fridays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Entre pro/spectives picassianes is a space for relation, creation and work being devleoped in close contact with Picassian poetry. It does not present finished works, but rather contains a diversity of creative pieces in progress. Therefore, they fit into this framework of open processes prepared to accept new interventions and mutations, which will be taking place in the following weeks.
The opening of the exhibition took place on Thursday 30 November. It was attended by the academic head of the Doctorat Picasso programme, UAB lecturer Jéssica Jacques; the curators of the exhibition, Bábara Bayarri and Daniela Callejas; the technician of the Cultura en Viu Unit, David Sirvent; and the director of the exhibition, Jesús Galdón.
Lecturer Jéssica Jacques said that this was a peculiar exhibition: "It is not a traditional exhibition because things will happen in it, as they will happen in the Doctorat Picasso, through creative processes", and added that "we work beyond the classroom and beyond academic protocols, we try to let loose".
One of the curators, Bárbara Bayarri, invited those visiting the exhibition to make it their own: "It is a transformative, live space meant to be created, beyond the finished work." She added that "the hall allows you to play with Picasso's poetry, creating an anonymous correspondence between all the people who participate in this space".
According to co-curator Daniela Callejas, "we want the visitor to question the poems, rather than just receive information". Her wish is "for visitors to become part of the exhibition".