When Art Reveals..
With almost 30 years as a reference in contemporary art, MPA Gallery has consolidated a unique trajectory in the global art scene. Its focus is on cultivating solid careers, where new languages and diverse temporalities merge within the contemporary artistic vision. Throughout its history, the gallery has not only highlighted some of today’s greatest artistic talents, but has developed curatorial programming that fosters deep connections with an audience aware of contemporary dynamics. On this occasion, Galeria MPA joins curator Victoria Rivers in a collaboration that stems from the convergence of her vision of contemporary art and her deep connection to the human experience, whose work and reseach explore the ways of thinking that underpin today’s creation.
This exhibition was born as an answer to the eternal questions about art, society and the individual. Epiphany explores those revelatory moments when an intuition, feeling or idea leads to a new stage of consciousness, triggering the creative process. It ranges from divine manifestations to transformative inventions of humankind, including reflective processes that have shaped the collective consciousness. The exhibition transcends conventional boundaries by dissolving barriers between artistic expression, spiritual processes and the consequences of creation in shaping today’s societies, inviting the viewer to experience his or her own revelation and become part of this continuous flow of collective transformation.
Joan of Arc listening to their voices in Domrémy’s garden, trembling at the magnitude of her mission, not so different from Leonard Cohen waking up at three in the morning to write verse by verse ‘Hallelujah’ during years of doubts and fragmented revelations, both pursuing something they could not explain.
Not so different from Marcel Proust, sitting in his room, with a spoonful of madeleine in his hands, discovering, through taste, the recesses of his memory, revealing the structure of his greatest works. It reminded me of Albert Hofmann in his laboratory in Basel, 1943, when a tiny accidental brush with LSD-25 opened the doors of perception on his famous bicycle ride home.
Marie Curie, in her dark laboratory, seeing for the first time the bluish glow of radium in a flask, a light that would change our understanding of matter. And then there was Virginia Woolf, walking the streets of London, when the whole structure of “Mrs. Dalloway” revealed itself to her as a web of invisible connections between people and moments. And then there was Dalí, on that hot night in Catalonia, watching a camembert cheese melt on the table, while his feverish mind transformed that mundane moment into the soft clocks that would haunt the art world. All of them, separated by centuries and purposes, united by that instant of blinding clarity that comes like a thief in the night, without warning, without permission, forever altering the course of their lives and, by extension, ours. Like that midday in July when Scott Fahlman, frustrated by text message misunderstandings, scribbled the colon and parenthesis that would become the first emoticon :), a stellar moment that, as Zweig would say, concentrated “an immensity of events in a single minute”.
This group show explores the power of creation as a means to explore and give form to the great questions of humanity. Through the works presented, the viewer is invited to reflect on how creation is not only a personal manifestation, but also a reflection of the social and spiritual transformations that shape our world. Each piece in Epiphany acts as a point of connection between the individual and the collective, revealing how, through the creative act, the boundaries of time and space can be transcended, reaching new dimensions of consciousness that affect both the creator and society.