Palmadotze

Since 1989, PALMADOTZE art gallery has focused on the dissemination of contemporary art with exhibitions of emerging artists and established creators in both the national and international scene. 

After 23 years located in the city of Vilafranca del Penedès, in 2019 PALMADOTZE moves to Mas Pujó, a 15th century Catalan country house in Santa Margarida i els Monjos, Barcelona. Motivated by the need to reinvent itself, aims to propose new formulas for dissemination and promotion of contemporary art that bring particularity and dynamism to its exhibition programme. The peculiarity of the region allows to highlight the connection between Art/Landscape/Wine through the similarities and parallelisms existing between the respect for nature, inseparable from wine elaboration, and the processes of creation. 

HOW TO GET THERE by public transport:
Renfe Rodalies R4. From Barcelona Plaça Catalunya - To Els Monjos (1:05h aprox.); Taxi Els Monjos: +34 938 903 627

By car:
GPS: 41º 19’ 31.21” N/ 1º 40’ 28.46” E (40 min aprox. from Barcelona)
Go to AP7, exit 30 (Vilafranca Sud / Santa Margarida i els Monjos) Turn right, join the N340 towards Sant Margarida i els Monjos At 300 m, turn left towards Masia Mas Pujó

Represented artists:

Antoni Abad, Pep Agut, Alfonso Borragán, Marti Guixé, Rogelio López Cuenca, José Maldonado, Marta Marcé, Mateo Maté, Eva Miquel, Miralda, David Mocha, Mariona Moncunill, Muntadas, Pere Noguera, Rabascall, Benet Rosell, Claudia Terstappen, Nazif Topçuoglu, Jaume Xifra.
Artistes en col.laboració: Violeta Mayoral, Pedro Torres

The exhibition reading images proposes a reflection on the relationship between images and texts, between what we see and what we name, one of the transversal themes in Ignasi Aballí's work.

Based on a selection of images found in different newspapers (objects on the basis of which the artist has carried out different projects), a series of nineteen paintings based on these images are shown.

The working methodology consisted of scanning the images and then finding their average colour (the colour resulting from the mixture of all of them), using a function in Photoshop. The image has been reduced to a single colour, or we could also say, to a single pixel that is repeated over its entire surface. This process makes it impossible to see the image as it was, as it has been altered, "erased" and hidden, so that we can no longer identify it, thus leaving its interpretation and visualisation completely open.

These resulting half-colours (or pixels) have subsequently been painted on canvas. Each monochrome painting shows the colour of the respective image and has a format proportional to that of each reference image.

All the selected images have as their subject matter the image (photographic, pictorial, scientific), exhibition spaces or reading. They show views of exhibitions and people taking photographs, reading or carrying out protest actions, to give some examples