The world of art, thus, in capital letters, always offers us new views and perspectives about our daily lives.
Creators who are conscious of their projects are able to focus on things that we did not see, that we did not grasp, until their work sheds light and constructs meanings and interpretations that are useful to us.
The Bestiari project, by Carlos Casas and Filipa Ramos, two true, authentic creators, have been the winners of the selection process of the Institut Ramon Llull and are the protagonists in the Pavelló Català of the 60th edition of the prestigious and global Art Biennial of Venice.
This inexcusable international art event can be visited until November 24, 2024, in a particularly reflective edition, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, who has chosen the theme-motto “Foreigners Everywhere” as his central theme.
The Casas y Ramos project represents Catalan culture in the “Eventi Collaterali” program of the Biennale.
Friends of these pages of Peludos, do not miss this Venetian exhibition, Bestiari, which pays tribute to the medieval classic The Ass Dispute, a Catalan text written between the years 1417 and 1418 by the Mallorcan author Anselm Turmeda, considered, along with Ramon Llull, , one of the founders of Catalan literature.
Bestiari highlights and values ??the extraordinary natural landscapes that Catalonia has. It is a fascinating investigation about life and memories, but it especially focuses on the complex relationships that exist between the various species of animals.
The project is materialized through an audiovisual exhibition that immerses us all, as visitors, in various cycles of images and sounds extracted from nature itself, recorded with the greatest detail and care in multiple natural parks of the generous Catalan geography.
This exhibition functions as a great allegory of the contemporary universes that emerge from the displacements of anthropocentrism, highlighting notions such as “citizenship” or “belonging”, from a multispecies perspective, that is, one that transcends and goes far beyond the dichotomy between people and animals.
Taking up that symbolic motto of the Venice Biennale, ‘Foreigners everywhere’, the project with which Catalonia participates in this edition, Bestiari, takes it to the limit, to the extreme, through the confirmation that nature and The animal kingdom, to which we humans rarely listen with real attention, have become something foreign to humanity itself.
This suggestive immersive audiovisual proposal by Carlos Casas (curated by Filipa Ramos) invites us to try to understand that in the natural world, people are just another species, in harmony with all the others.
Don’t miss this great opportunity to immerse yourself in an environment of sounds and images that generate a multiplicity of animals and beings that inhabit some of the landscapes of Catalonia.
It should be noted with true sadness that, in this frenetic current situation that we have had to live in, nature and animals have become strange and incomprehensible presences to our eyes, to our human perception.
Precisely for this reason, this project by Carlos Casas aims to “turn it around” and show us the reality of the natural parks of Catalonia. It seems that, ultimately, it is the animals themselves that give us and contribute their vision of the world, from their perspective. The main protagonists here are bees, snakes, some birds, a bat…
And returning to the creative origin of this proposal, everything is born from a prodigious text titled The Ass Dispute, which was written in the remote year of 1417 by the writer Anselm Turmeda.
Filipa Ramos has worked intensely with the purpose of updating that medieval text, demonstrating to us the importance and centrality it has for our present (and will have in the future).
In some way, we could end up affirming that good old Turneda was a pioneer of ecological thinking.
Don’t miss it, Venice awaits you!
(Until November 24).
