Jujol, de Perejaume

The artist and poet Perejaume (Sant Pol de Mar, 1957) is working at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya on the first major exhibition devoted to Josep Maria Jujol, following the donation to the COAC and the MNAC of the architect's entire documentary archive by his family. The Museum is organising this exhibition within the framework of Barcelona's World Capital of Architecture, which Barcelona will celebrate in 2026. Josep Maria Jujol (Tarragona 1879-Barcelona 1949), to whom the MNAC has dedicated its own space in the permanent collection since 2014, is one of the most brilliant and original figures in early 20th-century architecture. Architect, artist and craftsman in equal measure, the appeal of his work has continued to grow over recent decades. In addition to works by Jujol from his legacy, which comprises more than 10,000 papers, objects and furniture, and from numerous other public and private collections, the exhibition will present a group of works by architects such as Antoni Gaudí or Bruno Taut, and by artists such as Vladimir Tatlin or Henri Matisse. This exhibition follows the line of another artistic project by Perejaume at the Museu Nacional, Mareperlers i ovaladors. Maniobra de Perejaume, from 2014. Paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, photographs, videos and books are only some of the media and resources this artist has used in his projects since the late 1970s. The whole articulates an artistic system of deep critical force in relation to globalised ways of life. His way of understanding art is bound to ways of life strongly connected to peasant life. Through his work, Perejaume promotes a shared space where the human and the non-human meet, thanks to an unconventional writing, all with a luminous irony.