This year marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Josep Guinovart and the Fundació ‎Privada Espai Guinovart Agramunt has launched L’Any Guinovart (Year of ‎Guinovart).‎

Over the entire year, a comprehensive programme of exhibitions, lectures, concerts and ‎other activities have been organised to help rediscover the artist who, for more than seventy ‎years, worked as a painter, sculptor, engraver, illustrator, set designer and printmaker. ‎

The GU-INNO-VART exhibition, staged by Barcelona’s Museu de la Música, is framed within ‎this context of activities and is on from 14 June to 7 October 2018. GU-INNO-VART traces the ‎different musical styles that inspired the majority of his work: from the reinterpretation of ‎one of Chopin’s preludes to the fingers of Carles Santos that become piano keys.‎

‎Sona Guinovart, música per un quadre (Guinovart Sounds, Music for a ‎Picture). Take part in the competition!‎

Guinovart reinterpreted the flamenco cante jondo, staged Verdi’s ‎‎Aida in a painting and put colours to the blues. And you, dare you do your own ‎rendition of the work of Josep Guinovart?‎

Barcelona’s Museu de la Música has organised a competition open to everyone who comes ‎to see the GU-INNO-VART exhibition. Entitled Sona Guinovart, música per un ‎quadre, it is an interactive competition that encourages visitors to freely improvise ‎whilst contemplating the work of the artist.‎

How? It’s easy!‎
In the museum entrance hall there is a piano and the reproduction of one of Guinovart’s ‎works. Simply sit at the piano (it doesn’t matter if you know how to play or not – just have a ‎go!) and record a video of you doing your own interpretation of the work by Guinovart. ‎Upload the video to social media with hashtag #SonaGuinovart, mention the Museu de la ‎Música, the Fundació Guinovart and the ESMUC… and you’re done! The competitor with ‎most likes will win a prize: an original Guinovart engraving! ‎

‎Josep Guinovart‎
Josep Guinovart (1927 – 2007) was one of the greatest exponents of Catalan and Spanish ‎avant-garde art of the second half of the 20th century, and embodied – like very few do – the ‎figure of an artist in a state of constant change, hungry to interact with reality in multiple ‎ways. In view of this, we can say with a fair amount of confidence that he was continuously ‎reinventing himself … as a realist, an expressionist, working with materials and objects, as an ‎informalist or abstract artist: but none of these labels embraces his full complexity, and he ‎conceived his work as a process of never-ending research for which he made use of an ‎infinite variety of techniques, mediums and materials.‎
Often situated midway between painting and sculpture, the work of Guinovart was a means ‎to seize reality, to make it his own and possess it, to affect it, to recreate it, to transform it, ‎but never to represent it or emulate it. Endowed with an unparalleled ebullient personality, ‎he subjected his multiple stimuli – natural, urban and cultural – to an apparent process of ‎formal disintegration in order to put them back together again, inject new life into them and ‎cause them to be reborn. ‎
‎Àlex Susanna‎
Curator of ‎‏<‏em‏>‏‎L’Any Guinovart‎