Work | Exhibits | Installations
HANDSMATTER
At the beginning of the year, it takes place a
workshop at the Franciscan Convent in Bonlanden (Germany) about the theme: “To be
part of the Whole”, gathering some Sisters along with all the employees of the
Convent, a total of 55 participants.
In 2021 the illustrations, composed by Guido Dettoni resulting from the images of the shapes created by every participant will be exhibited and integrated into the new Praying Chapel at the Convent to complete its scenario.
TAU and MARIA
The two meters height wooden enlargement of the TAU and the one-meter height
enlargement of MARIA, carved in Verona red marble on one-meter height column are realized and will be installed at this Praying Chapel in 20121.
AQUARIUM
Achievement of the definitive prototype.
HANDSMATTER INSTITUTE
Project concluded.
2020
A year devoted to silence and blindness. This was not to avoid listening and seeing all that was going on but to better hear and see within oneself and, also with the hands in contact with the matter, to discover through shapes the invisible reality.
MARIA – achievement of the new version of the enlarged sculpture from 8 inches upwards.
CRUCIFIX – achievement of the handheld sculpture.
WEARABLE ICONS – collection of reduced sculptures -cast or carved- to become wearable: Maria, Tau, Crucifix, Bethlehem Cross and others.
EAGLES – Installation of the two outdoors fiber glass enlargements of the original sculptures, one mirror of the other, at Can Pinal’s Estate – Els Hostalets de Pierola – Barcelona.
ILLUSTRATIONS for the book of poems, NAUFRAGIS, by Carles Duarte i Montserrat – ISBN:978-84-17469-17.7.
PAU – Performance PAU ESCOLTA. Based on the proposal of the composer Àlex Martínez, PAU listens the sounds of the landscape recorded within the two parts of the outdoors sculpture at Els Hostalets de Pierola.
HANDS JOURNEY – Sculpture installation at a horse stable in Can Pinal’s Estate – Els Hostalets de Pierola – Barcelona.
PAU – the 12 millions years old fossil from the Miocene’s Montserrat area (Barcelona) becomes an outdoors monumental sculpture located in a public park of Els Hostalets de Pierola – Barcelona.
HANDMATTER | RECONCILIATION – realization of a collective art experience about Reconciliation at Museo Casa de la Memoria – Medellín- Colombia.
MARIA – Exhibits | Installations
Cripta di San Rufino – Assisi | Policlinico – Lampedusa | Santa Maria delle Grazie | Tufo – Carsoli – L’Aquila |
Ospedale Pediatrico Meyer – Firenze
TO TURN THE OTHER CHEEK – achievement of the handheld sculpture. Published in the book “L’ull de la violencia” (The eye of violence) – ISBN:978.84-9136-088-9.
FLYING MAN – achievement of the sculpture for those awarded by the American Italian Association of Educators (AIAE) – NY – USA.
HANDMATTER | PEACE NETWORK – the network begins with the gatherings in Assisi, Prague, Mäntyharju (Finland) and New York (Hofstra University) aimed to be spread all over the world. Presently in standby.
CATALONIA – The Institute for the Promotion of the Catalan Culture awards him with the XXIX Premi Josep M. Batista I Roca – Memorial Enric Garriga Trullols for his work spreading the Catalan Culture and language.
MARIA STELE
First presentation and installation at the Basìlica dos Martires – Lisboa of one Stele allowing a tactile and visual experience of MARIA.
MARIA – Exhibits | Installations
Tanatorio de San Gervasio -Barcelona | Real Monasterio de Santa Isabel -Barcelona.
HANDSMATTER | PARAULA-FORMA (word-shape) – Performance with the poet Carles Duarte, at the Fundación Carulla – Esplugues de Francolí – Catalonia.
HANDSMATTER | PEACE NETWORK Gathering in Mäntyharju – Finland.
MARIA ALPHA-OMEGA
Alpha-Omega Column, donated by NESHER Foundation (The Netherlands), permanently installed at the Choir of Our Lady of the Snow, Prague.
HANDMATTER:
TOUCHING TENDERNESS AND PEACE – 6 days performance during “The days of Faith” – Prague
SHAPES OF SILENCE – Earthship Isla Verde – Els Hostalets de Pierola, Barcelona.
MARIA MADRE – Colegio Pureza de Maria – San Cugat, Barcelona.
PEACE GATE – First experimental Gathering held in Assisi, to manifest Peace and to achieve the video demo of a virtual construction of a Peace Gate.
MARIA & RESURRECTION – at Saint Ignatius Church in Singapore.
MARIA’s enlargement and RESURRECTION sculptures, both carved in Marble.
The RESURRECTION sculpture was presented and blessed by the Archbishop of Barcelona, Cardinal Luis Martinez Sistach at the Catalan Faculty of Theology prior to be shipped to Singapore.
FACE OF CHRIST – Permanent installation at the MARIA exhibition in Assisi.
HANDMATTER:
SOUND & TOUCH – experience: Shakuhachi flute played by Miura Taro – Hands by Guido Dettoni – Barcelona.
EXPERIENCE with the parishioners of St Ignatius Church – Singapore.
HANDMATTER | DEAFBLINDNESS
Performances, workshops and seminars at: CDBA (Canadian Deafblind Association) – Paris, Ontario and CAIXA FÓRUM – Tactile Performance at the European Conference of Deafblindness – Barcelona.
HANDMATTER
Several experimental workshops in Italy.
HANDMATTER | DEAFBLINDNESS – Performances, workshops and seminars:
Collective Experience and workshops at the International Symposium held by TSVBI (Texas School for Blind and Visually Impaired) – Austin, Texas.
KU – Achievement of the Handheld sculpture of a spoon along with video-interpretation of this artwork.
MARIA ASSISI
Remodeling of the exhibition MARIA at Santa Maria delle Rose, Assisi for its new opening.
TAU
Permanent installation of the 2 meters high enlargement carved in linden wood at the MARIA Exhibition in Santa Maria delle Rose in Assisi.
CHALICE AND PATEN – achievement of the artwork carved in wood for the first Eucharistic celebration of the priest Mattia Magoni – Trescore Balneario, Bergamo, Italia.
HANDMATTER
Several experimental workshops in Italy.
MARIA – Exhibit | Installation
Basílica de Sant Miquel, Palma de Majorca.
HANDMATTER
Several experimental workshops in Italy
MARIA ALPHA-OMEGA
ALPHA-OMEGA Column at the Osnabrück’s Cathedral, Germany
MATER TERRA (mother earth) – Handheld sculpture and its enlargement. Conception and execution of the Mother Earth Circle cast in concrete at the Earthship ISLA VERDE, Els Hostaletes de Pierola.
DEAFBLIND SHAPE – Achievement of the handheld sculpture, symbol of Deafblindness
HANDMATTER | DEAFBLINDNESS – Performances, workshops and seminars with the Deafblind people of the Deafblind Catalan Association – Barcelona.
MATER LACTEA (mother milch) – Achievement of the handheld sculpture following the Mater Lactea workshops: breastfeeding mothers, blindfolded, shape wax to create hand-held shapes. Then, by looking at them they imagine and interpret. Poems, songs, tales are the outcome. An aesthetic inquiry in the world of breastfeeding – 13 workshops all over Catalonia.
FACE OF CHRIST – Permanent installation at the Sanctuaire de Pontmain – France.
NOTRE-DAME DE PONTMAIN – Achievement of Our Lady’s digital representation followed by the edition of the video and the booklet describing and digitally depicting Her apparition.
MARIA – Exhibit | Installation
Universidade Católica – Lisboa
FACE OF CHRIST – One year installation at the Basilica of Notre-Dame du Folgoët – Bretagne.
MARIA – Exhibit | Installation
Basílica da Estrela – Lisboa
BETHLEHEM CROSS
Installation at the Basílica Nossa Senhora dos Mártires – Lisboa
EAGLES
Installation of 2 fiberglass overlapped enlargements of the same sculpture at the Scholastic Institute IES Bendina , Calvià -Mallorca.
QUIXOTESANCHO
After the experience of the previous year, achievement of the rotating sculpture.
HANDMATTER
ROSEMARY’S FLOWER – Collective Experience at IES Bendinat, Calvià, Majorca.
HERZ JESU – Collective Experience at the Herz Jesu Parrish in Herne, Germany.
MARIA – Exhibit | Installation
Museo Pio XII – Braga
MARIA – Exhibit | Installation
Egreja de Santa Isabel – Lisboa
TAU
Basilica Superiore di San Francesco, Assisi – One month exhibition of the two meters high enlargement carved in linden-wood. Installed for the concert Embracing the Tau, composed by Giuseppe Magrino, ofm.
Installed during the Easter triduum at the Cova de Sant Ignasi de Loyola – Manresa.
SANT FÈLIX – DIGGING ACTION
Vilafranca del Penedés, digging into the soil to find/shape the sculpture (then cast in brobze) of Fèlix, the Man.
Presentation in Rome (Spanish Embassy at the Holy Sit) and in Paris (Université Catholique) of the video of the Digging Action and the bronze sculpture of Fèlix, the Saint
HANDMATTER | SANTFELIX – experience with the children of Vilafranca to discover the Virtual representation of Sant Fèlix.
JUPITER
Hand-held mirrored sculpture and its enlargement. Installation of an 8 elememts column and 8 benches at Platja de Sabinosa – Tarragona.
HANDMATTER | QUIXOTESANCHO
Two collective experiences: elderly people and children in Argamasilla de Alba, La Mancha, Spain
MARIA ALPHA-OMEGA
The Column ALPHA-OMEGA, during one year at the Cripta Gaudì in the Sagrada Família – Barcelona.
MARIA – Exhibit | Installation
Saint-Sulpice – Paris
MARIA CONCERT
At the Lower Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi. Composed by Giuseppe Magrino ofm.
BETHLEHEM CROSS
Installation at the church of Santo Tomás de Aquino – Barcelona
TAU
Creation in Assisi of the handheld sculpture in wax
JUPITER
Handheld mirrored sculpture and its enlargement.
Installation of 1 column of nine elements at Plaça de l’Esclat – Vilafranca del Penedès
and 10 benches at Museu Es Baluard – Palma de Majorca
MARIA ALPHA-OMEGA
Heinrich Pesch Haus – Ludwigshafen, Germany
BETHLEHEM CROSS
First installation at the Bethlehem’s Church in Barcelona
MARIA – Exhibit | Installation
Chiesetta di San Girolamo – Mezzago (Milano)
CONCERT FOR MARIA
At San Rufino Cathedral of Assisi. Composed by Giuseppe Magrino, ofm.
MATER TERRA
Handheld sculpture and its enlargement at the temporary exhibition at the 1st congress “To be born at home” – Manresa
JUPITER
Enlargement of the hand-held mirrored sculpture at Thursday Foundation – Ballina (Byron Bay), Australia.
HANDS JOURNEY
The sculpture to be experienced and travelled in blindness is presented to the cultural department of the Spanish Organization for Blind People (ONCE).
MARIA – Exhibit | Installation
One year at the Cathedral of Salamanca
MARIA ASSISI
Santa Maria delle Rose in Assisi – Beginning of the Permanent Exhibition at this church
MARIA – Exhibit | Installation
San Martín Pinario – Santiago de Compostela
EAGLES | OUTDOORS
at Plaça Alexandre Jaume, Palma de Majorca, installation of two stone overlapped enlargements, one mirroring the other
EAGLES – Exhibition | Installation
at the church of Sant Anoniet in Palma de Majorca, during one full year.
MARIA – Exhibit | Installation
Alte Nikolaikirche – Frankfurt am Main
MARIA | OUTDOORS
permanent installation of one marble enlargement at Colegio La Purísima, Palma de Majorca
FACE OF CHRIST
Permanent installation at the church sanctuary of Saint Michel – Palma de Majorca
FACE OF CHRIST – Permanent installation at Parròquia de Sant Miquel – Palma Mallorca
MARIA – Exhibit | Installation
At the church of Sant Antoniet – Palma-Majorca – during one year.
MARIA – Exhibits | Installations
Fontana d’Or – Girona
Santa Maria delle Rose – Assisi
Duomo Cattedrale – Verona
Iglesia de San Juan de los Panetes – Zaragoza
Església Nacional Española – Roma
FACE OF CHRIST
First presentation and public exhibition at Santa Maria in Montesanto – Roma.
MARIA – Exhibits | Installation
Catedral de Santa Maria – Tortosa
Basílica di San Clemente – Roma
MARIA – Exhibits | Installation
L’albergueria – Vic
Palau Robert – Barcelona
Antic Refectori dels Canonges de la Catedral – Tarragona
Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana – Roma
Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana – Roma
MARIA – PIA ALMOINA
First world presentation of the multifaceted Icon MARIA at Pia Almoina (Diocesan Museum) of Barcelona.
HANDMATTER
SAKPATA experience (the God of the earth) in Cotonou – Bénin (West Africa).
HANDMATTER
Experiencing the Handmatter process with deaf children and adults as well as with handicapped at the Purísima School for Deaf Children, Palma de Majorca.
EAGLES – Outdoors at Serra Art Foundation – Sóller, Majorca: installation of 2 stone overlapped enlargements of the same sculpture.
YADA – concept and work presented at the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Cholula, México.
SCHOOL OF THE EARTH – leading the project (Center for training and employment for disabled people, agriculture oriented with the implementation of alternative energy) for the Foundation Teresa de Oliva of Majorca.
ARTESANS DEL PLA DE MALLORCA – coordination of the research for, and the edition of a book -as part of a European project- on the craft traditions of Majorca.
HANDMATTER | DEAF CHILDREN
At the School “La Purísima for deaf children” in Palma de Majorca experimenting his findings on the synergy between touch, the other senses and the learning processes, demonstrating the possible integration of the HANDMATTER methodology with pedagogy.
THE HANDS SEE, THE EYES TOUCH
Exhibition of tactile sculptures, along with paintings of Montse Galserra, at the Castle of L’Hospitalet de l’Infant, Tarragona. First public presentation of the AQUARIUM.
YADA
Under the pseudonym HIDO, at
the Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs, Lleida, an exhibition brings together
for the first time after 1970 some of his Paintings and Tactile Sculptures.
1970 /1991
He entrusted most of his pictorial work realized until that date to the Siemens Foundation in Munich without following up the proposed exhibition, so deciding not to enter the art market.
ART PRACTICE & WORK – Practicing painting and sculpture and also working within the scope of architecture and design -mainly in Italy, West Africa, China and Switzerland. In Milan, he founded, with his brother Luca, the Studio NUN for graphic and industrial design. In Geneva, where he had his workshop during two years he initiates the Digging Actions into the soil. The sculpture “Earth Christ” is witnessing it.
Several stays in Jerusalem, experienced as a searching path, brought him to know the verb YADA which defines a relevant aspect of his work. The Hebrew verb Yada means to know in the acception of knowing what is concrete, tangible, not an abstraction. It is formed by the word YAD, the hand, and AYIN, the eye, so suggesting that the hands see and the eyes touch.
HANDMATTER
In ‘72 he conceives and give start and name to this creative collective process.
EXHIBITION
Jointly with the Ukrainian painter Ihor Kordiuk, paintings exhibition at the Haus der Begegnung in Munich, Germany.
EXHIBITION at Terrassa Art Centre, Amics de les Arts -Barcelona, presenting the painting FLYING MAN at a collective exhibition.
ART PRACTICE & WORK – at a suburban Art Workshop in Caracas, Venezuela
FLYING MAN – Starting this pictorial and conceptual process in Granada, Spain.
MIGRATION – from Milan, his birth city to Westphalia in Germany, then to Vienna prior to move to Barcelona so adding to his Italian roots those of Catalonia.
