'Vesica Piscis', by Fernando Prats

'Vesica Piscis', by Fernando Prats

The intervention of the artist Fernando Prats in the Romanesque art halls is composed of a set of works that propose subtle parallels between apparently distant periods. With the aid of gravity and the beating of bird wings, the artist traces the records of universal movement. Tackling this complexity, he weaves a network of landscapes that evoke the experience of the passage of time and the rhythms of nature, highlighting the geometries hidden in Romanesque art. Bearing witness to these traces reveals a timeless connection in the themes despite the conceptual differences between periods.

In this project, curated by Gloria Moure, Fernando Prats establishes a line, an itinerary interwoven with alternative landscapes throughout the Romanesque art halls, uniting the different parts of the exhibition into a whole. Along this itinerary, the artist explores the concept of representation with nature as an artistic subject through pictorial works that develop the notion of landscape, as well as creations outside of time that vindicate the vision of painting as a deep, stratified and skilful sedimentary process that entails the contradictions inherent to human experience.

Fernando Prats was born in 1967 in Santiago, Chile. He lives and works in Barcelona. He studied at Escola Massana and the University of Barcelona, as well as at the University of Chile. His work explores the extreme energy of nature and the land. The Andes mountain range, the Atacama Desert, and Antarctica, along with memory, are unavoidable and constitutive links in his practice, turning the Chilean landscape into his poetic and pictorial language.
 
His artistic career has been recognized with the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Honorary Scholarship of the President of the Republic of Chile, and the First Prize Ciudad de Palma Antonio Gelabert for Visual Arts. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions such as the Mediations Biennale in Poland, the Chile Triennial, and the International Water Expo, among others. He represented Chile at the 54th Venice Biennale. His work also includes significant public art installations, such as Pou de Llum at La Balconada in Manresa; Acción Medular, a tribute to General Carlos Prats González, installed at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile; and Su vertical nos retiene, in recognition of Gabriela Mistral, located in Los Cerrillos Metropolitan Park in Santiago, Chile.
  • Curator: Gloria Moure
  • From March 26 to October 12
  • Rooms 2, 4, 7 and 8 of Romanesque art
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