UPF Art Track, the tour of UPF’s artistic, architectural and cultural heritage located on the Ciutadella campus, is to hold its third anniversary this May celebrating by increasing the number and quality of its works.  

On the one hand, the art collection has recently incorporated three works by Plensa, Subirachs and Pruna, and on the other, it will add a new exhibition to the section that UPF has in Google in Arts & Culture, coinciding with the first anniversary of the University’s association with the virtual platform.

“UPF Art Track consolidates the University’s commitment to art, and by brining works by top international authors to the university community and society as a whole”.

“UPF Art Track consolidates the University’s commitment to art, and by bringing works by top international to the university community and society as a whole”, asserts Javier Aparicio Maydeu, full professor of Literature at the Department of Humanities, UPF Culture delegate and promoter of the circuit.

Plensa, Subirachs and Pruna, three new works for UPF Art Track

The work by Jaume Plensa is housed opposite the Tàpies Space, on the Ciutadella campus, one of the central points of the UPF Art Track circuit.

It is a painting that the artist gave to UPF in July 2017 and featured in the inaugural poster for the 2017-2018 academic year. “The work is one of a series of Plensa’s most exclusive, one of the most prized in the world, the Slumberland portraits rendered in graphite on paper that feign three-dimensionality”.

The other two pieces that have joined UPF Art Track, signed by Josep M.  Subirachs and Pere Pruna, are housed at the entrance to the Pompeu Fabra Space of the Library of the Dipòsit de les Aigües.

These two works were created in 1968, to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Pompeu Fabra, when Barcelona City Council proposed to various artists that they did a painting in “Homage to Pompeu Fabra” (which is the title borne by both works).

The painting by Josep M. Subirachs was purchased and loaned by the UPF Board of Trustees in 2017, while the one by Pere Pruna was donated to the University by its former owner. Both pictures bear the slogan “Never give up the task or hope”.

More than 600,000 visits to the UPF Art Track exhibitions on Google Arts & Culture

18 May 2019 will see the first anniversary of the presence of UPF Art Track on Google Arts & Culture, which chose Pompeu Fabra University’s artistic initiative to form part of its cultural project.

From 18 May 2018 until the end of last year (just over seven months), the total number of visits received by the two exhibitions exceeded 600,000 and it continues to grow apace.

Coinciding with this first anniversary, UPF is preparing a third display: “The new exhibition will be presented in a more playful spirit than the first two, as a game between art and art history, a nod to the user”, explains Javier Aparicio Maydeu.