2024 Programmes

The artist Catalina Julve, selected through an open call by the Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics (IEB), participates in ARTESANTANDER curated by Marta Mantecón.

The curator Marta Mantecón explains: “The triptych that gives this project its title comes from the opening sequence of Tarkovsky’s film Andrei Rubliov (1966): The script foresaw the following episode: a peasant made wings, climbed a cathedral, threw himself into the void from the top and crashed to the ground. He could see nothing. He fell to the ground and killed himself: nothing else. As he flies, we see a herd of galloping horses. At the moment when the fatal accident occurs, a horse – an animal that provides infinite metaphors – rolls on the ground, falls and rises, showing how nature, outside the narrative, follows its own evolution. Catalina Julve transfers this scene to large-format paper, inverting the sequence. She draws with clay that she has previously kneaded with her hands, as she uses a paste that contains particles of graphite amalgamated in a greasy medium that she can mould (…) Catalina Julve reflects on the nature of images in a progressive work of simplification and knowledge about the intimate connection that exists between nature, art and materials”.