4.30 pm

Conference opening

Welcome by Laia de Nadal, rector of UPF, and speeches by the academic directors of the conference: Victoria Cirlot and Manuel Guerrero

​​​
 

4.45 pm

Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
“Contemplating the Wall. Tàpies in the United States. 1953-1978”

​​​
 

5.45 pm

Xavier Melloni, Jesuit, doctor of theology                    

“El silenci, un bé necessari” (Silence, a necessary good)

​​​
 

6.15 pm

Jordi Garcés, architect                                                                                     

“El projecte arquitectònic de la sala de meditació d’Antoni Tàpies” (The architectural project of Antoni Tàpies’ meditation room)

6.45 pm

Break

7.15 pm

Concert
Tàpies and music

ESMUC students, conducted by David Albet
Four6, by John Cage, for 4 performers (30’)

Andrea Pérez, Celia Juan, Irimia Menchero i Carlos Isla

​​​
 

8.00 pm

Closure (Reflection Room)

Perejaume, artist and poet

Artistic-poetic performance

Fer voltejar una creu (Make a cross flip)

5.00 pm

Greeting by Imma Prieto, director of the Antoni Tàpies Foundation, and brief intervention by the conference directors

5.15 pm

Martine Heredia, research associate at CRIMIC

"La huella en la obra de Tàpies: entre materialidad y espiritualidad” (The imprint in Tàpies’ work: between materiality and spirituality)

5.45 pm

Alfonso Alegre Heitzmann, poet and essayist

“Una nada de inagotable secreto” (A nothing of inexhaustible secret)

6.15 pm

Susy Gómez, artist                        

“El projecte Quantum” (The Quantum Project)

6.15 pm

Break

7.30 pm 

Conversation between Antoni Llena, artist and writer, and Manuel Guerrero, art critic and essayisy

"Tàpies, art i espiritualiat" (Tàpies, art and spirituality)

8.00 pm

Presentation of issue 212 of the journal Engramma, dedicated to Antoni Tàpies

With Monica Centanni, director of Engramma; Imma Prieto, director of the Antoni Tàpies Foundation, and Victoria Cirlot and Ada Naval, editors of this issue of Engramma

6.00 pm

Greeting by Marko Daniel, director of the Joan Miró Foundation

Musical performance

Miró and music

ESMUC students, conducted by David Albet
-
Capriccio, by Robert Gerhard, for solo flute (6’17’’)
Soloist: Quim Ferrer
-
Density 2.1, by Edgar Varese,
for solo flute (4’32’’)
Soloist: Maria Victoria Majho Nunes
-
The Kiss of the Infant Jesus, by Oliver Messiaen, for piano (10’)
Soloist: Pau Vendrell

6.30 pm

Maria Josep Balsach, professor and director of the Chair of Contemporary Art and Culture at the University of Girona
“L’or de l’atzur. Contemplació i transfiguració en l’obra de Joan Miró” (The gold of the azure. Contemplation and transfiguration in the work of Joan Miró)

7.15 pm

Mery Cuesta, cultural critic, exhibition curator and teacher

“Miró y los astros: eventos celestes y terrenales en la constelación visual mironiana” (Miró and the stars: celestial and earthly events in the Mironian visual constellation)

8.00 pm

Closure

Fito Conesa, artist

Artistic-musical performance

Acordes y des-acordes en las doce casas (Chords and dis-chords in the twelve houses)

5.00 pm

Greeting by Emmanuel Guigon, director of the Picasso Museum, and a brief intervention by the conference directors

5.15 pm

Enric Granell, architect and professor at the ETSAB

"Juan Eduardo Cirlot, estudiós de Picasso, Miró i Tàpies" (Juan Eduardo Cirlot, a scholar of Picasso, Miró and Tàpies)

6.00 pm

Pedro Azara, professor at the UPC-ETSAB

“La imagen de la muerte en la obra plástica de Picasso” (The image of death in Picasso’s visual work)

6.45 pm

Closure of the Art and Spirituality conference, by Emmanuel Guigon, Victoria Cirlot and Manuel Guerrero

7.15 pm

Musical closure

Picasso and music 

ESMUC students, conducted by David Albet

-

7 folksongs, by Manuel de Falla, for vocals and guitar (3’)

Musicians: Biel Comas Saavedra and Manuel Alberto Posada, guitars; Noelia Rivera Vegara and Aroa Lola Minerva, vocals

-

3 pieces for clarinet, by Igor Stravinsky (4’)
Soloist: Antonio Cruzado, clarinet
-
Suite from the Soldier’s Tale, by Igor Stravinsky (16’)
Musicians: Sergio Ferrer, clarinet; Paula Ros, violin; Alberto Just, piano