Marc Larré IN RESiDENCE at the School Joan Boscà

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Raw clay pieces in various sizes.
The publication 1+1=3 was also produced, with a print run of 100 copies.

Description of the work
Series of pieces made from raw clay, their surfaces marked impressions made by contact on one or more side. These contacts were made in different parts of the city of Barcelona, particularly the Gothic Quarter, reproducing forms, traces, wounds from different periods in history that came into contact with other elements apparently far apart but brought together in the piece.

The result are works that illustrate different volumes in the city, suggesting an event or issue that is now brought into contact with some other element, distant from it in time or space.
- Launch from the place where the first photography in Spain was taken
- Water – Canaletes Fountain
- Prostitute’s heel – worker’s elbow
- Roman wall – bicycle wheels
- Roman wall – silver figure
- Roman wall – weeds
- 250-metre corridor between Metro lines 3 and 4 in Passeig de Gràcia
- Kiss between two faces separated by a window
- Place of origin – place of destination (door of the Frederic Marès Museum)
- Gentrification – eviction
- Applause for sculpture
- Shrapnel (Plaça de Sant Felip Neri) – ball
- Casa Lleó i Morera – Loewe logo
- Tyre – paving stone by Gaudí
- Barcelona Stock Exchange – Parliament of Catalonia
- Mould from the Escribà cake shop – Casa Amatller

Presentation
The final work was presented at 7.30 pm on June 13 in the Frederic Marès Library of the Frederic Marès Museum. At it, the pupils and teachers and Marc Larré himself described the work and the pieces in the show. The director of the Frederic Marès Museum welcomed the audience and introduced the exhibition. The presentation was attended by pupils, families and teachers from the school, as well as representatives from Barcelona Education Consortium and Barcelona City Council Institute of Culture.

The event also featured the presentation of a publication, 1+1=3, which visitors were invited to browse. The exhibition was open to the public until June 24, 2018.