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Lluís Hortalà. A poke in the eye - Fundació Vila Casas. Espai Volart Exhibitions
02/21/2025 - 07/13/2025

The artist Lluís Hortalà approaches the world using vision as a mechanism. The work of Hortalà (Olot, Girona, 1959) interpellates contemporaneity using resources from the pictorial tradition. The results are conceptual and ironic works that reflect on the structures that sustain thought and power. By playing with appearance, the acceptance of deception and the replication of reality, Lluís Hortalà creates trompe l'oeil and optical illusions to critically question how modernity and the avant-garde enable or impede a reflection on contemporary artistic practice. Now the exhibition offered by the Vila Casas Foundation at the Espai Volart takes us into the artist's world and invites us to reflect on the mechanisms of knowledge on which cultural and social models are based..

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