International Art Day (2018). Free guided tour of exhibition "Camp dels Haras, 1939. Fontserè i Clavé"

International Art Day (2018)

Guided tour of the exhibition "Camp dels Haras, 1939. Fontserè i Clavé in the light of Martí Vives" by Eric Forcada, curator of the exhibition.

Saturday, April 14, 2018, at 5:30 p.m.

This exhibition aims to highlight the rich network of relationships in which, despite the difficult situation they had to face, the young artists Carles Fontserè and Antoni Clavé moved in the first stage of their exile. Perpignan, during the first months of 1939 became a city in a state of emergency in which gestures of solidarity were essential for the fate of refugees.

The Roussillon artist Martí Vives will play a key role in leaving the Catalan internment camps, as was the case of Carles Fontserè and Antoni Clavé. That precarious and even dangerous stage will allow both of them, paradoxically, to make their first exhibitions as artists. Art will become a vital survival strategy. In the exhibition you can see original works and various documentation of the time.

The exhibition has been curated by Eric Forcada.

This exhibition has been held as part of the centenary of Carles Fontserè (2016-2017), in collaboration with the Department of Culture and can be visited at the MUME from March 17 to September 2, 2018.