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The Key to Cadaqués The dilettante arrives in Cadaqués in mid-morning. A gentle summer tramuntana is blowing and the bay is flooded with a cascade of sunlight that hurts the eyes. Following the footsteps of memory he walks to Llané, greets Na Lidia, so firmly rooted, and contemplates the hulk of the church that dominates the typical architectural accumulation, divines the Baroque altar, and puts music by Brahms. Aimez-vous Brahms? But nobody answers the question. The dilettante is in Cadaqués to resolve an enigma: the mystery of M., the mystery of the Miniprint… He needs time. The postcard forms part of the enigma though it only appears to be a pastime. A group of local men discuss current politics in the salty speech characteristic of the village. Authentic speech seduces him. It was too early for lunch. He had a table reserved in Es Baluard and the friend with whom he was to share the banquet, Marcel, a key piece for resolving the question, would not arrive until the appointed time: one thirty. “The wheel of time and the persistence of memory”, he thought while he contemplated the terrace of Bar Meliton, full of foreigners in search of lost time. Marcel arrived as punctual as a soft watch. The meal was excellent, the dialogue deliberate, the after dinner conversation disperse and vague as corresponds to two men possessed by the same spell that they had to resolve that very afternoon since the next day the dilettante had an appointment with the sailor Luard in the Café de la Marina in Port de la Selva. It was getting late, they had spoken more about the divine than the human, but in taking leave of Marcel, he had a concrete, but laconic address: Hort d’en Sanés 9. He arrived there when the late afternoon combed the bay, the village, the sea and the sky with threads of gold, not a sign of clouds, extreme stillness. He crossed a large blue doorway, that blue which combines so well with the whitewashed houses and which reminded him of a voyage to an imagined Ithaca. Mystery and more mystery thought the dilettante when he read the inscription above a glass door inside the patio: Taller Galeria Fort. A Nordic looking couple conversed with a woman who, once she was free and introductions made (Mercedes Barberá, at your service, the dilettante of Guinardó, unoccupied and curious as ever, he grumbled) invited him to contemplate the miniprints that filled the white walls of the workshop gallery: prints, all the same size, 10x10 centimeters, that formed a global kaleidoscope of 55 countries from the 4 continents and more than 600 artists. He closely scrutinized each piece and the mystery increased. He remembered that someone had spoken to him about the Mini Print as if it were a miracle. Yes, perhaps it was that: a miracle. Nevertheless his chronic, skeptical and rational relativism did not allow him to believe in miracles. He was only a dilettante, but also a man of his time. Miracle or not the enigma has endured for almost 30 years, a sufficiently extended time for one to be able to speak about consolidated effort, persistent and continuous work, sustained faith, virtues that are scarce in the liquid time of our postmodernity. He noted the prices which were reasonable and as a souvenir he took a possessed face by a Rumanian artist that vaguely recalled a De Sucre. He took leave of the gallery owner and left. She had told him in detail the history of the Mini Print, which made everything even more mysterious and enigmatic. And how had so many years passed without the dilettante having heard of such a notable fact? The nocturnal bay amid the silence of the starry sky, not the slightest breeze, Jupiter reigning majestically in the darkness, all spoke to him of the mysteries of this world, mysteries that were for him reason for rejoicing and life. He had not discovered what the enigma of the Mini Print was. There are enigmas that it is better not to resolve. The dilettante gave up, but he had found, like someone looking for mushrooms, the key to a long history of the art of the country. It was the key to Cadaqués: the Mini Print. Joaquim Pijoan Writer and painter
COMITÈ D’HONOR President: Molt Hble. Sr. José Montilla – President de la Generalitat de Catalunya Vicepresident: Hble. Sr. Joan Manuel Tresserras – Conseller de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya Vocals: Sr. Francesc Torres – President de l’Associació d’Artistes Visuals de Catalunya Sr. Daniel Giralt-Miracle – President Emèrit de l’Associació Catalana de Crítics d’Art MEMBRES DEL JURAT <strong>2008</strong> Josip Mijic, Croàcia Kiko Ohno, Japó Míriam Cantera Arranz, Espanya Secretària del jurat: Mercè Fort OBRES, TÈCNIQUES I ARTISTES PREMIATS «Bubbles – II» Aiguafort i segell acolorit Claudia Hobi Suïssa «Porous #29» Col·lagrafia i chine collée Eunice Kim Estats Units «Allegories: Oxygen» Art digital Peter Boyadjieff Canadà «S/T» Tècnica mixta Maria Ribeiro Portugal «Vague et mémoire» Tècnica mixta Gérard de Brénnel Espanya «Réminiscence 08-10-4» Aiguafort i aiguatinta Sadao Sakurai Japó Obres premiades a escala 100%
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