AMIDAMENT DE JOAN COROMINES

Video display in which the Catalan artist Perejaume (Sant Pol de Mar, Barcelona  1957) reflects upon the work of the philologist Joan Cormines (Barcelona 1905 – Pineda de Mar, Barcelona 1997), his work method and his research into the origin of words, especially of Catalan words.

Joan Coromines’s research work as a philologist is closely linked to his hiking activity, which on occasions led to him being nothing less than a mountaineer. At the same time, his trips were a study of the toponyms and anthroponomy that Coromines collected along the way, by means of excursions, all over Catalonia. Together with Perejaume’s video display, the exhibition includes two large filing cabinets with over a million filing cards from Coromines’s work, as well as a selection of notebooks that he used on his itineraries. In this exhibition we also remember the figure of the Menorcan philologist Josep Mascaró Passarius, who collaborated on research works with Joan Coromines. 
 
Perejaume lives and works in Sant Pol de Mar and in Montenegre. In his work he combines literary and visual practices. Painting, writing and hiking have contributed to his work in a redefinition of landscape study. Exhibitions such as "Postaler" (1984), "A 2.000 metres de pintura sobre el nivell del mar" (1988), "Galeria Joan Prats, Coll de Pal- Cim del Costabona" (1990), "Girona, Pineda, Sant Pol i la Vall d'Oo" (1997), "Bocamont, Ceret, Figueres, el Prat, Tarragona i Valls" (2000), "L'obra de Granollers" (2002), "Retrotabula" (2003) or "Esconderse" (2004) are testimony to this.

Perejaume’s work has over the years come to form a complex body combining theoretical proposals and artistic production. Thus we have books such as Ludwig-Jujol (1989), Oli damunt paper (1992), La pintura i la boca (1993), El paisatge és rodó  (1995), Oïsme (1998), Oleoducte(1999), Fonació d’un espai (2001), Obreda (2003) and Els cims pensamenters (2004).

Location-Hall: Floor -1
Production: Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, and Fundació Caixa Catalunya