Remove a stone from the wall - Luz Broto Luz Broto

Off Bellera, La Capella de Sant Corneli, Museu Arxiu Tomàs Balvey ,

Barcelona, Cardedeu, ES

Remove a stone from the wall, Intervention, January 2009

To attempt for eight months to temporarily remove a stone from the wall of the exhibition space.

La Capella de Sant Corneli in the town of Cardedeu is a small former pre-Romanesque chapel used as an exhibition space. For this solo show, I propose to change the position of one of the elements of the space, a stone. In doing so, I raise questions about what is possible. It mobilizes the institutions and inhabitants of the town.

I describe the process in an online diary in which the public can follow the story as it happens, culminating with the Heritage Committee refusing to extract the stone ‘to avoid distorting history.’

I ask Antonio Cruz, an illustrator who draws postcards of historic buildings in Catalonia, to produce a new postcard that recreates this story as a historical event. The postcard is on sale at several shops in the town.

The postcard is produced and distributed just if it is shown in an exhibition. If an institution wants to show the do so, it must follow a protocol to produce and distribute it.

Plano de la sala, con una posible ubicación de la piedra a extraer.

Capella de Sant Corneli (interior)
Fotocopia sobre papel
11,6 x 17 cm
2009

Dibujo, diseño y edición de Antonio Cruz.

Vista en exposición “La qüestió del paradigma. Genealogies de l’emergència en l’art contemporani a Catalunya». Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, 2011.

Postal y certificado.

PDF (CAT) Exhibition leaflet. Text No hay un plan B, by ferranElO tro

PDF (CAST, ENG) Story of a Stone and The Invisible Spheres, Luz Broto. Simposio Procesos y redes, 2009, University of Barcelona

LINK (CAST) Process diary: https://www.luzbroto.net/archivo/2008/10-RFMI.html

Consulting: Maria Teresa Genís, Xavi Garcia, Martí Sunyol

Thanks to: Estel·la Broto, Toni Broto, Raquel Calvo, Dídac Cubarsi, Manel Clot, Jordi Costa, ferranElOtro, Anna Estany, Xavi Garcia, Lola Lema, María Ramió, Martí Sunyol, Martín Vitaliti.

This proposal took place in the framework of «Off Bellera», curated by Anna Estany in collaboration with Manel Clot at La Capella de Sant Corneli, Cardedeu amb l’Art Vigent 2008, Museu Arxiu Tomas Balvey, Cardedeu.