📅Friday, May 30 at 7:30 p.m.
📍Espai Mil Nou, Reus
We invite you to the opening of …
The phrase from Estéphane Mallarmé’s poem, “A roll of the dice will never abolish chance”, is the one that inspires the title of this four-hand exhibition, of two generations in the same family, the Todó saga.
Paco Todó Garcia was born in Tortosa in 1922 and, while still a child, arrived in Barcelona where the family settled. In the big city, the traffic of trams and port cranes exploded in the eyes and imagination of that child.
He discovered his desire to be a painter, already as a teenager, in the window of the Gallery where Joaquim Mir was exhibiting, and where he saw the easel and brushes of the artist’s profession.
He would later paint machines and subtle intimate watercolors, which have made his painting, as an acute observer said, “an evocation of a time when this country was undoubtedly more intelligent and more beautiful than now”, and if it was not, here it remains. Joan T. Gou
Jacint Todó Vila was born in Barcelona in 1951. Self-taught.
Finalist for the Joan Miró international drawing award in 1970. He has exhibited at the Girona College of Architects, in various galleries in Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, Palma and also at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome with Benedetta Tagliabue. Solo exhibition at the AGBAR Museum of the waters of Cornellà. Creation of the Font del Bacallà and ceramic walls in the Santa Caterina market.
He directed the intaglio section of the Xavier Corberó Center for Artistic Activities. Exhibition in tribute to Eric Satie at the Barcelona Center for Musical Studies.
Murals at the Sarrià Chemical Institute in Barcelona and at the Ginebró School in Llinars del Vallès. Exhibitions at the Enric Miralles Foundation. Pigment Gallery in Barcelona, November 2023. OAB Gallery by Carlos Ferrater in Barcelona, June 2024
The exhibition will be on view from May 30 to June 30, at Espai Mil Nou with opening hours from Tuesday to Friday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.