09.09 – 01.10.2023
It is an honour for Galeria Cadaqués to conclude the celebration of its 50th anniversary by holding the exhibition of Parvine Curie, an artist who has been a witness to the history of Galeria Cadaqués since its beginnings. Curie has exhibited on several occasions, both in solo and group exhibitions, already in the days of Lanfranco Bombelli.
Born in Nancy in 1936, the sculptor Parvine Curie grew up in Troyes and studied in Bordeaux and Paris. The discovery of Catalan Romanesque art led her to settle in Barcelona in 1957 and to conceive her first sculptures. I n the 1970s, as part of an exhibition in the French capital, the sculptor François Stahly discovers her talent and recognizes an affinity between their respective artistic universes, which leads them to share a studio and, later, to embark on a journey together. Curie travels around the world expanding her horizons, allowing herself to be artistically imbued by the places and cultural manifestations that she loves: the Mayan and Celtic civilizations, the art of churches and pyramids, Hindu temples. Hers is a non-figurative, monolithic sculpture of conceptual purity, clean lines and materials, impregnated with strong symbolism; a work, points out the art historian Lydia Harambourg, “of such radiant vigor that it goes beyond any concept of modernity to join the timelessness of the great classicism”.
