Isidro Ferrer & Pep Carrió: Encounters
8-18 May 2025
Exhibition
Pep Carrió
Pep Carrió is a truly multifaceted artist: illustrator, graphic designer, publisher, photographer, carpenter, sculptor, and entrepreneur. He embraces the old encyclopedic ambition of the man who wanted to understand the universe. In his multifaceted practice, the artist explains reality through the transformation of matter and ideas into images and objects. Among his most renowned works are the illustrations for Flor de un día and Casas (Alboroto Ediciones); covers for Alfaguara, and posters for the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Isidro Ferrer
Dozens of books, hundreds of posters, delicate objects, enormous facades, animated short films, sculptures, textiles, brand imagery, lamps: Isidro Ferrer uses any medium, technique, or communication channel to express his passion for the theatre of life through images. A member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale), his work and words span a vast physical and emotional geography.
The exhibition presents for the first time in Italy a dialogue between two extraordinary Spanish artists, Isidro Ferrer and Pep Carrió, whose creative worlds intertwine in a journey that blends visual design, illustration, and materiality. Through screen prints, collages, sculptures, original sketchbooks, and graphic posters, a collective narrative emerges, highlighting both the affinities and differences in their artistic practices.
The exhibition avoids clear-cut divisions, allowing the works to coexist and reflect one another. Ferrer’s Mascarada intertwines with Carrió’s Restos, offering a profound reflection on metamorphosis and identity, while Ferrer’s Flores de Té sits alongside the blue botanical screen prints from Carrió’s La Línea Infinita, creating a visual atlas that blends graphic precision with poetic resonance. In this dialogue, nature and humanity merge in a continuous play between reality and imagination, between form and matter.
Objects play a fundamental role: true protagonists of their imagination, they are joined by original notebooks—witnesses to the creative process—on display as tangible traces of a constantly evolving thought. Animals, plants, hands, and heads compose a bestiary and a symbolic vocabulary that reflect on themes of identity, metamorphosis, and solidarity, forging deep connections between the two artists.
The exhibition highlights how the work of Ferrer and Carrió—while each marked by distinctive traits—meets in a shared territory where the artistic gesture becomes an act of exploration and attentive observation of the world. Every mark and composition conveys care, passion, and a constant creative tension. Together, they give life to a visual universe that merges object and imagination, the tangible and the dreamlike, exploring the boundaries between illustration, graphic design, and materiality.
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