Until September 30, VINSEUM is showcasing two artistic interventions by the artist Ignasi Aballí, created specifically for the museum as part of the second edition of the Passat/Present project, promoted by the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia and curated by Frederic Montornés.

With the aim of bringing the public closer to our cultural heritage from a contemporary perspective, Passat/Present, in this second edition, has invited eight artists to intervene with their work in eight heritage sites located in each of our territorial regions.

Ignasi Aballí (Barcelona, 1958) is an artist who, while navigating the boundaries of representation and perception, explores language from a minimalist perspective and creates minimal, almost imperceptible interventions—both on colored surfaces and through the incorporation of everyday elements such as dust or light. In many cases, the artist disappears as a subject and allows the accumulation or corrosive action of materials or light to construct the artwork.

Aballí’s proposal for VINSEUM focuses on two interventions:

“A Possible Landscape” is a new version of the installation in which, through texts placed on the windows, things that we cannot see—but that nonetheless exist, are part of the environment, and affect us—are named. These are elements of the landscape that we do not perceive with our eyes, meteorological phenomena that may or may not coincide with what we are seeing, or aspects directly or indirectly related to VINSEUM.

The other intervention is “Attempts at Reconstruction,” which consists of a series of glass objects like those used in laboratories (test tubes, flasks, Erlenmeyer flasks, funnels, etc.) that have first been broken and then reconstructed as best as possible. The connection with the museum is established through the use of these types of objects in winery laboratories, where they are used to measure and mix products related to the production and analysis of wine.

A guided tour of the interventions, led by the artist and the curator of Passat/Present, is scheduled for June 12.