Llum, Natura Centrum Est exhibition by Marcel·lí Antúnez opens at Tinglado 2

The exhibition brings together more than 250 objects from actions, parades, installations and murals created —often specifically and on commission— from 2014 to the present day. More than a dozen collaboratively produced projects make up this body of work.

The collaborative approach involves sharing the creative process with different communities, as has been done with second-year students from the Applied Arts to the Wall programme at the Escola d’Art i Disseny de la Diputació a Tarragona. 

Antúnez visited the school to work with the students on the biography of Llum de la Selva (1877–1983).

This naturist, revolutionary and anarchist farmer, born in Barcelona and later settled in Sabadell —in an orchard he called Jardí de l’Amistat— died at the age of 106 in La Galera (Montsià). The images developed by the students constitute the first graphic biography dedicated to one of the figures featured in the Pòsters Pagesos, also included in the exhibition.

The collaborative work and the later cultivation of a garden based on agroecological principles have led Marcel·lí Antúnez to highlight the urgency of reversing a civilising doctrine —our own— that has displaced nature from the central narrative.

During the sessions at the school, the artist invited students to reconnect with nature and to listen to what is alive —animals, plants and territories— and to consider them active subjects within a shared narrative that must be respected and protected.

The Applied Arts to the Wall students from EADTarragona who participated are Lucía Caño, Judith Navarro, Heura Martí, Èrika Martínez, Irene Yi Orti, Norma Pascual, Lídia Pérez, Maria Lluïsa Rom, Rocío Romero, Marina Singleton, Lucía Valverde, Abril Yerden, Dídac Masgoret and Rut Cano.

The teaching staff: Yolanda Díaz, Maite Serna, Núria Rion, Sílvia Iturria, Àlvar Calvet and Empar Escobar.