The conspiracy of arts

Roy Lichtenstein became famous thanks to the plot of his popular comic strips, highly present in his work, a classic of pop art.

Today we can read in them a prophetic anticipation of today’s pixels.

Susana Solano’s work is a tribute to Universitat Pompeu Fabra’s philosopher and professor Eugenio Trias. 20 metres of perforated stainless steel so that this beautiful apothegm of the only Spanish Nietzsche award can be read as a frieze.

“To write, to paint, to create or to produce forms, masks: that is to live again and to live on a higher plane… “.

In Vedova we find a committed, politicized artist who, resisting any kind of affectation or domestication, displays his energy through the strength of his brush strokes.

Practically an exercise of exorcism, a psychoanalytic therapy.

In this work by Frederic Amat the letters of our university’s name seem to emerge in the midst of a strange flowering, of vegetation made of the smooth black of Indian ink and of the types of printing on Mediterranean blue.

As if the printed page of a book had been jostled, ruffled to burst in a kind of fireworks, taking flight like a flock of birds.

Alfonso Alzamora's sculpture "L'escala de l'enteniment", donated by the Fundació Vila Casas, is the Barcelona artist’s contribution to the commemoration of the death of Ramon Llull.

It is significant that a university enjoys on its campus the presence of Ramon Llull, considered the father of the internet, because he wanted to connect the different scientific disciplines and create a grammar of knowledge.

In Hollan we can find the subtlety of oriental art and the desire for formal experimentation of the avant-garde.

His works seem to be the result of spontaneous growth, the branching of life.