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Àngel Jové
Quaderno italiano
Italian Notebook
1976 - 1981
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Of the 49 drawings that make up Quaderno italiano, 43 have phrases in Italian which, if put one after another, comprise a sort of discontinuous psalm, a truncated incantation. The phrases are written by hand; some are repeated obsessively while others are done with graphic playfulness, entering into dialogue with images and pictorial traces. Here Àngel Jové shows solitary figures walking through desolated landscapes, suburbs with ruins, wiry constructions and other unsettling scenes of vacuous solitude. One in particular, the fifth, has a self-portrait where we read the phrase “Memory does not exist”, with the artist’s date of birth. Put together like a palimpsest of various components, Àngel Jové’s Italian notebook refers to the reiterated effort over the course of the 20th century to represent art figuratively. The series ends with a luminous “Here shines the sun”.
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original title
Quaderno italiano
year of acquisition
2023
type of object
Graphic material
dimensions
49 elements: 21,5 x 22 cm each
Copyright
© Àngel Jové
registration number
R.6517
date
1976 - 1981
fonds
MACBA Collection. Long-term loan of the Barcelona City Council
media
Mixed media on paper
credits
MACBA Collection. Long-term loan of Barcelona City Council. Gift of Rafael Tous
original title
Quaderno italiano
registration number
R.6517
date
1976 - 1981
year of acquisition
2023
fonds
MACBA Collection. Long-term loan of the Barcelona City Council
type of object
Graphic material
media
Mixed media on paper
dimensions
49 elements: 21,5 x 22 cm each
credits
MACBA Collection. Long-term loan of Barcelona City Council. Gift of Rafael Tous
Copyright
© Àngel Jové

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