Escultures Transparents

Rafel Marquina

18/10/01. (Sala 199)

Architect and designer Rafael Marquina, creator of the famous Marquina cruets, presents from 30 March in La Sala Vinçon his first exhibition of sculptures, composed of twenty pieces that make up a large conceptual and formal unity that emerge from Marquina’s will to provoke in the viewer a point of reflection on the relationship between a determined space by each piece and its exhibition setting.

The exhibition consists of 30 x 30 cm cubes, made of aluminium, wood, ebony, cedar, oak… basalt stones, bronze, iron and glass, among others. Each piece is a thorough synthesis of industrial work, where Marquina takes care of every detail, especially the finishes of the edges “Light and shadow collectors”.

The pieces, which give priority to the general vacuum space and determines their environment, move one of Marquina’s sculptural concerns to a smaller scale: the need of the exhibition setting and the way in which this conditions and determines the plasticity of the object whilst inviting the viewer to feel “out but in” of the enclosures created by the cubes and “in but out of the exterior surroundings”.

Marquina has carried out intense work in the field of industrial design and has worked with leading figures in design and architecture such as Moragas Gallisá, Miguel Milá or Josep Maria Sert, among others.

The opening of the exhibition is held on 30 March 2000 at 8 pm at La Sala Vinçon chaired by Rafael Marquina and by Oriol Bohigas, who will present the ceremony.