16th February 2023
Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma presents the exhibition “Susy Gómez. Gesture Against Oblivion”, opened to the public on the 16th of February at 7 pm.
“Gesture Against Oblivion” by Susy Gómez (Pollença, 1964), is presented as a pictorial installation in which large-format pieces invade the room, creating a space that goes beyond the canvas in which to enter, to encounter, what is collective and what is private, suggesting that what is seen on the surface is not what has to be seen.
Curated by Imma Prieto, the project unites ancestral and intimate knowledge, recovers what we are in essence, union and love, without complexes, without filters or religions.
Imma Prieto, director of Es Baluard Museu and curator of Susy Gómez’s exhibition, explains that “the exhibition continues to nourish the line of projects on which the museum’s production is based and supported by creating new projects. This one, moreover, has different layers of reading, from a personal point of view to a local, social, historical point of view and appeals directly to the history of art, above all if we bear in mind that this type of exercise or pictorial installation that takes place in the space has rarely been carried out and, when it has been done, it has been done by male artists. We think of Monet with the Water Lilies, Rothko’s Chapel, Barnett Newman or Cy Twombly with the Chapel of Lepanto. The references of these artists are exterior, nature, history, religion but, Susy Gómez’s work, comes from a reflection, from an internal work, with ourselves, inviting the spectator to find himself. The works are a mirror of ourselves as living beings in a 21st century that has many challenges to face”.
The exhibition can be visited at the Museum Exhibition Hall B from 17 February until 4 June 2023.
