Lucia Onzain

*After Virtue* is an exhibition that brings together the work of four young visual artists from the Catalan region of Spain. Featured in this exhibition is a selection of drawing, painting, sculpture, and site-specific installation employing materials such as lead, tar, glass, pigment, wood, metal, and stone. Each work demonstrates an exploration of the properties of the materials themselves.

*After Virtue* was curated by Jeffrey Swartz, a Canadian who resides in Barcelona. Through this exhibition he comments on certain persistent currents of contemporary art practice not only in Catalonia but in most of Spain. These currents look to the vitalism of Arte Povera and the concrete, objectual and sensual character of Catalan conceptualism. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition with essays by Jeffrey Swartz and Carles Poy from Barcelona.

*After Virtue* is the second half of a cultural exchange between Cold City Gallery in Toronto and Galeria Carles Poy in Barcelona. This exchange was made possible through the generous support of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Ministry of Culture and Communications - Arts Abroad, and the City of Toronto through the Ontario Arts Council.

Curated by Jeffery Swartz
Exhibition organized by Cold City Gallery, Toronto and Galeria Carles Poy, Barcelona


A wooden shelf-like sculpture hangs horizontally on a wall. A drawing of two figures embracing made on blank musical notation paper is pinned to the wall beneath it. 

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An artwork mounted on a white wall. The work is a piece of glass in a square diamond shape with a grey-brown rectangle and a red cylinder mounted on top. A photo of two crossed arms is pasted onto it. 

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2 artworks in a gallery. One is a black rectangular prism with a black cylinder embedded in it, mounted horizontally on the wall. The other is a black rectangular prism placed vertically on the floor. 

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2 artworks on small grey plinths mounted on white walls. On the left is a black vessel with white on its "handle" and white filling inside. The other is a carved piece of wood with a concave interior.

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A gallery space with many artworks. Two of the works are on plinths on the wall, and 2 others are directly mounted. In the corner of the image, there is a work that is a large white rectangular prism.

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A gallery space with a hallway in the background. Art is on all the visible walls. Two works are on mounted plinths, 2 works are paintings, and one is a long wooden piece with a photo underneath.

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Three small circular artworks hang on a wall to the left, next two them is a tall black plinth and in the background part of another sculptural work is visible through a doorway. 

Lucia Onzain

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