Art space B.Art in Alicante, coordinated by artist Jaume Marzal, is hosting two events this week. painting and music Alicante artist Perceval Graells, who will present his latest works in the exhibition on Thursday spinning stories, and Alicante-based musician Txus Amat, who will be performing his new album on Friday, first day of the worldAccompanied by Bulgarian accordionist Ivan Mitov.
Perceval Graells Exhibition
Inside spinning stories (Turning stories), Perceval Graells presents some of his latest works, which he has developed over the past year, using a mixed technique on paper and canvas. Some of the artist from Alicante years using the red thread in his pictures for “sew” their storiesthose who inspired and moved him to show his wounds to the public.
“Threads are scarsbut I don’t see that as a bad thing, but experiences that produce pain and that we have overcome”He adds, “Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I believe that difficult moments should be viewed more as a moment, not as something difficult to overcome. Apprenticeship it makes us all more courageous and at the same time more human and real”.
He hasn’t let go since he started using the thread. “I feel very comfortable around him, he’s always red because bitter red for me”, draws attention to this material, which is linked to his new paintings. black and gray colorslike the white that is always present in his work, giving him peace. “I’m not looking for everything to be perfect or smooth, nor am I looking for geometry, but irregularity or accidentwhere you’ll find things you didn’t expect”, explains the artist.
spinning stories opened Thursday at 19:00. at B.Art (Italia street, 33) and will stay Until the end of January 2023.
Perceval Graells will take his work to the Center CÃvic Pere Pruna and contemporary art fair in Barcelona next year. Art Madrid’22
Songs by Txus Amat
Txus Amat, a musician born in Tudela and living in Alicante for decades, offers the next day: Friday at 19:30. first day of the worldan album 16 songs in the form of an anthology compositions he has composed in the last thirty years, Featuring illustrations by Pablo Auladell, the 2016 National Comics Award for co-creating the show Karabel Camera in 2011.
“I’ve been making songs since the ’80s and I’ve recorded without recording them. Not all of them have been released, and most of them are old demos that I had to re-record, some in a lower tone than when I was younger. The idea of ​​not getting lost,” says the singer-songwriter, some for guitar and voice, some for different times at different times. He adds that he plays with musicians.
His compositions have drifted towards l in recent years.musicalization of poems, highlight recitals love and cities suite with his poems Luis Garcia Montero, Fantasy for an uncertain rose with incoming texts Raquel Lanseros and Fernando Valverde, Homage to Miguel Hernandez of the Jose Luis Ferris, The waltz of what hurts me with his poems Jose Luis Rico. with last record On the shores of the city of light With the work of twenty-five poets from Alicante. premiere in 2021 threads and paper, with twenty poems by many national poets.
“My adventure with poets started when I met GarcÃa Montero in 2014 and started composing his poems, which became my main activity,” says Amat, who thinks about this in the songs selected for the album. “There is a poetic basis in the form of a day-to-day narrative, currently representative of every era”.
The album will then be presented at UA’s Alicante City Center and Happy Books Library, among other areas.
He is currently preparing the edition of the book-cd. birds, the poet’s Peter Serrano and show they talk about the war beside Square Rose.
Source: Informacion
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