{"id":10392,"date":"2018-11-16T20:21:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T20:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.civitart.cat\/?page_id=10392"},"modified":"2020-12-20T12:12:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T12:12:20","slug":"colleccio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.civitart.cat\/en\/collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][rdy_message text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; background_color=&#8221;#fbc817&#8243; close_button_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;]civitart.cat is under construction[\/rdy_message][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=&#8221;mayus&#8221;][vc_column]<section class=\"testimonial-item testimonial-item-slider\"><ul class=\"owl-testimonials owl-carousel owl-hide-arrows owl-hide-dots left testimonials slider-content rsCont\">\n<li class=\"item\"><article>\n\t<p class=\"gi gi-quotes-testimonials-02 gi-quotes\"><\/p>\n\t<div class=\"testimonial-content\">This is not the most frequent way of putting together a collection, turning it into a registry of contemporaneity, into the history of the comings and goings of the art of our lifetime. Committing oneself to the latest art to the point of living with it, making it yours in a collection, requires the kind of courage few have. The collection of Josep Maria Civit demonstrates this attitude. The attention this collector has paid to the artists of the most recent avant-gardes has not been limited to renowned names from around the world (such as Jannis Kounellis, Dan Flavin and Damien Hirst). His collection is also a sign of his faith in the\r\nmost advanced, innovative artists from this country: it is the way that those who love art can contribute to ensure it continues to be the most valuable expression of the times we live in.<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"testimonial-vcard\"><div class=\"meta-inner\"><div class=\"col-table\"><div class=\"author-img \"><\/div><div class=\"\"><p class=\"text-primary\">Rafael Moneo<\/p><span class=\"text-secondary\">Architect<\/span><br \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/section>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=&#8221;mayus&#8221;][vc_column]<section class=\"testimonial-item testimonial-item-slider\"><ul class=\"owl-testimonials owl-carousel owl-hide-arrows owl-hide-dots left testimonials slider-content rsCont\">\n<li class=\"item\"><article>\n\t<p class=\"gi gi-quotes-testimonials-02 gi-quotes\"><\/p>\n\t<div class=\"testimonial-content\">This is not the most frequent way of putting together a collection, turning it into a registry of contemporaneity, into the history of the comings and goings of the art of our lifetime. Committing oneself to the latest art to the point of living with it, making it yours in a collection, requires the kind of courage few have. The collection of Josep Maria Civit demonstrates this attitude. The attention this collector has paid to the artists of the most recent avant-gardes has not been limited to renowned names from around the world (such as Jannis Kounellis, Dan Flavin and Damien Hirst). His collection is also a sign of his faith in the\r\nmost advanced, innovative artists from this country: it is the way that those who love art can contribute to ensure it continues to be the most valuable expression of the times we live in.<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"testimonial-vcard\"><div class=\"meta-inner\"><div class=\"col-table\"><div class=\"author-img \"><\/div><div class=\"\"><p class=\"text-primary\">Rafael Moneo<\/p><span class=\"text-secondary\">Architect<\/span><br \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/section>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1568476186849{margin-top: 70px !important;margin-bottom: 70px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11279&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]I MOST SINCERELY CONGRATULATE JOSEP MARIA CIVIT FOR SUCH AN INTERESTING COLLECTION, REVEALING TO EVERYONE HIS COMMITMENT TO THE MOST ADVANCED ARTISTIC PRACTICES, HIS MANIFEST COURAGE AND HIS TALENT.<\/p>\n<p>WITH A WARM EMBRACE FROM RAFAEL MONEO.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1568831865408{margin-top: 50px !important;margin-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11463&#8243; description_text=&#8221;TANIA BRUGUERA. PLUSVALIA&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; gap=&#8221;50&#8243; csd_animation=&#8221;transition.fadeIn&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]&#8221;SHARING A GAZE BEYOND THE RETINA&#8221;[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The Civit Collection is one of the leading collections of contemporary art in Catalonia. Developed over various decades, it seeks to be a story of contemporaneity and a unique contribution to Catalan collecting. The collection has the goal of reflecting the complexity and transformative nature of human society, spanning the period from the end of the 20th century to the beginnings<br \/>\nof the 21st century.<br \/>\nIt is just as well a collection where ways of thinking, freedom of expression and internationality are the main axes turning the discourse into a global archive of artistic movements and genres used by art in expressing itself in this period.<br \/>\nThe aim of the collector Josep Maria Civit Gomis (born in Montblanc) has been to construct this narrative, this contemporary archive, from conceptual, philosophical, literary and political perspectives, enabling it to recognize and sense its own era. Civit invites us to understand different ways of thinking and to enter into dialogue with the present. Cultural engagement, experimentation with the image and the practice of mental adventure are the distinguishing<br \/>\nfeatures of the collection, coming together in an effort to share a gaze beyond the retina.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]&#8221;LOOK, SEE, PERCEIVE&#8221;[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]In this regard, the Civit Collection is an experience and constructon of an imaginary domain that modestly seeks to map present-day art. For this reason, the collection is an excuse for exercise in looking, seeing and perceiving; this is also why the collection would not have meaning without the active participation of the those viewing it. Interpretative freedom for convulsive, complex times.<br \/>\nThe Civit Collection, which began when the collector was only 16 years old, is about to celebrate 50 years of existence. The collection\u2019s content is broadly international, featuring many movements and tendencies from the beginnings of the 1970s to the present: conceptual art, arte povera, minimalism, visual poetry, and more. The presence of Catalan artists in the collection is significant.<br \/>\nQuite beyond the collection\u2019s values and those of its artists (whether seminal, mid-career or emerging), its interest is in how it presents a narrative of contemporaneity, embracing everything from the Holocaust to current tendencies. This has enabled the collection to be the subject of a thesis on tragedy and banality, or that it has become a key point of reference in private collecting. What is more, the collector himself is highly active when it comes to doing seminars and classes for all kinds of publics.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11503&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Currently the Civit Collection is held in spaces at the Centre Cultural Terrassa, Barcelona, the Empord\u00e0 region and Mallorca. For many years the collection has spent time in Gil Stauffer containers. It opened to the public in 2008 at the Centro de Arte y Naturaleza [Centre for Art and Nature] (CDAN) in Huesca,\u00a0thanks to the architect Rafael Moneo, CDAN director Teresa Luesma and curator Menene Gras Balaguer.<br \/>\nSince then it has travelled throughout Europe and has been deposited and shown at the collector\u2019s space at the old Tauler factory building in Palam\u00f3s (2010-2017).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1568831960723{margin-top: 50px !important;margin-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11443&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<section class=\"testimonial-item testimonial-item-slider\"><ul class=\"owl-testimonials owl-carousel owl-hide-arrows owl-hide-dots left dark testimonials slider-content rsCont\">\n<li class=\"item\"><article>\n\t<p class=\"gi gi-quotes-testimonials-02 gi-quotes\"><\/p>\n\t<div class=\"testimonial-content\">IF I HAD DUCHAMP\u2019S FONTAINE, I WOULD NOT OWN ANYTHING ELSE. I AM STILL LOOKING FOR\r\nTHE EQUIVALENT IN MY TIME OF THE R. MUTT \u201cURINAL\u201d (1917).<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"testimonial-vcard\"><div class=\"meta-inner\"><div class=\"col-table\"><div class=\"author-img \"><\/div><div class=\"\"><p class=\"text-primary\">Josep Maria Civit<\/p><br \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/section>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<section class=\"testimonial-item testimonial-item-slider\"><ul class=\"owl-testimonials owl-carousel owl-hide-arrows owl-hide-dots left dark testimonials slider-content rsCont\">\n<li class=\"item\"><article>\n\t<p class=\"gi gi-quotes-testimonials-02 gi-quotes\"><\/p>\n\t<div class=\"testimonial-content\">I DO NOT FEEL LIKE A COLLECTOR; AT MOST I AM AN ARCHIVIST OF CONTEMPORANEITY. THE COLLECTION SEEKS TO DO JUST THAT: CONSTITUTE AN ARCHIVE OF MY TIME.<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"testimonial-vcard\"><div class=\"meta-inner\"><div class=\"col-table\"><div class=\"author-img \"><\/div><div class=\"\"><p class=\"text-primary\">Josep Maria Civit<\/p><br \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/section>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<section class=\"testimonial-item testimonial-item-slider\"><ul class=\"owl-testimonials owl-carousel owl-hide-arrows owl-hide-dots left dark testimonials slider-content rsCont\">\n<li class=\"item\"><article>\n\t<p class=\"gi gi-quotes-testimonials-02 gi-quotes\"><\/p>\n\t<div class=\"testimonial-content\">I DO NOT COLLECT WORKS OF ART, I COLLECT WAYS OF THINKING.<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"testimonial-vcard\"><div class=\"meta-inner\"><div class=\"col-table\"><div class=\"author-img \"><\/div><div class=\"\"><p class=\"text-primary\">Anton Herbert<\/p><span class=\"text-secondary\">Collector<\/span><br \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/section>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][rdy_message text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; 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