BERNAT DAVIU (b.1985, based in Barcelona) - Bombon Projects
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BERNAT DAVIU
(b.1985, based in Barcelona)
Bernat Daviu’s practice encompasses painting, costume-design, performance
and video. In his work, the everyday is confronted with avant-garde art
historical developments. As a result of these encounters, Daviu explores
affinities and paradoxes that oscillate between the absurd, the ironic and the
romantic.
Bernat Daviu (b.1985, based in Barcelona) studied Fine Arts at Central
Saint Martins, London. His work has been shown at Caixaforum (Madrid &
Barcelona), Artist Alliance (New York), Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), Galeria
Balaguer (Barcelona), Uma certa falta de coerencia (Porto), Guest Projects
(London), Fundació Arranz-Bravo (l’Hospitalet de Llobregat), Can Framis
(Barcelona), Bienal de Jafre (Jafre) or Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool), among
others.
Krabb Painting, Oil on Linen and Ikea Mirror, 2019
E GIRA TUTTO INTORNO ALLA STANZA
CAIXAFORUM (MADRID & BARCELONA)
2019
In the context of the exhibition “Painting. A permanent challenge ” at Caixa
Forum, the artist Bernat Daviu in collaboration with elAMOR proyectos
presented a performative action with a group of dancers choreographed by
Mar Aguiló.
Inspired by the phenomenon that has emerged among some young teenagers
to dance in front of modern buildings in order to see themselves reflected,
Daviu proposes to use the works of the exhibition’s artists as a mirror to refine
the choreography.
During the action, the performers will wear the work Daviu has in the
exhibition –the “Overall paintings”- and will dance in front of the works of
Spalletti, Ryman or Angela de la Cruz.
E gira tutto intorno alla stanza, performance, Caixaforum (Madrid & Barcelona) 2019
Overall paintings, Acrylic on canvas, 2011-12
E gira tutto intorno alla stanza, performance, Caixaforum (Madrid & Barcelona) 2019
Sunday Art Fair, duo show with Anna Dot, London, 2019
RESSURRECTION IN THE EVENING
Le Lucky curated by Josep Maynou
HVW8 BERLIN
2018
The porró is a traditional Catalan object used to drink wine. Daviu takes as
a starting point the odd appearance of such thing to produce what look like
avant-garde sculptures.
As in many of his work, these objects function both as art objects to
contemplate and objects with an actual purpose. This allows the work to
move into perfomative situations.
For Josep Maynou’s exhibition produced a porró with a special drink called
Resurrection in the Evening.
Ressurection in the evening, Le Lucky curated by Josep Maynou, HVW8 Berlin , 2019
Krabb off-cuts, enamel acrylic paint on canvas, 2019
These works are the off-cuts from the paintings used to make the costumes . They are the fragments of the canvas that are not used. Daviu is interested in the shapes that emerge; shapes that he is not able
to control or define. This way of working is totally oposed to his method and that’s what facinates him. It is as if the work is made by itself.
Vernissage sur l’herbe, FESTUS, performance at Torrelló, 2019
LA GRAN TORNADA
PERFORMANCE AT SOHO HOUSE, GARRAF
2018
La Gran Tornada (The Great Comeback) staged the return of the oldest
standing public sculpture in Barcelona to the quarry where its material came
from.
Daviu reproduced the lion that is guarding the figure of Hercules into an
inflatable. This inflatable showed up in El Garraf, the place of the quarry, and
pronounced a speech denouncing the destruction of El Garraf’s landscape to
serve the needs of Barcelona.
The sculpture and the performance were commissioned by Soho House and
were part of the program of Barcelona Gallery Weekend.
La gran tornada, inflatable, performance at Soho House Garraf, 2018
Jornada Garrofista, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona 2018
Inmarchitables, Cuchifritos, New York. Residence at Artist Alliance, 2018
APAÑO
BOMBON PROJECTS
with Ángela de la Cruz, Vasilis Asimakopoulos
2018
In this exhibition, the concept of a Gallery itself is questioned and also
challenged. The works appear in the space as garments in a shop; everyday
objects, stripped of the majesty that often surrounds works of art in galleries
or museums.
Bernat Daviu’s works move from the two-dimensional space of the painting to
the three-dimensionality of the body and vice versa. The artist uses the iconic
shape of a discontinued Ikea mirror, obsolete and unfashionable, to imagine
a new world where these recycled colourful waves have taken the centre
stage of our daily lives, flooding the space around us. The pieces of the wall,
conceived to be modular, are presented in the shop so that once acquired,
they can be assembled to the taste of the spectator, generating infinite
combinations.
Fragment of the exhibition text by Joana Roda
Krabb Jumpsuit, Bombon Projects. Oil on canvas Barcelona, 2018Krabb Painting, Enamel paint on mirrors, group show at Bombon projects, Barcelona, 2018
Apaño, Enamel paint on mirrors, group show at Bombon projects, Barcelona, 2017
XARRUPA QUE VESSA
2015-ONGOING
“Xarrupa means to slurp in English. So they are paintings that are asking you
to slurp them. The idea came at the oldest and probably the most popular
cocktail in Barcelona, called Boadas. A friend took me there to cheer me up.
This was at the time I had just moved to the city and adaption wasn’t so easy.
The guy making the cocktails asked me what I wanted and I had no clue what
to say; first because I didn’t have a clue about cocktails and second because
I didn’t really wanted one. He made the choice himself and prepared me a
colourful, layered drink that awoke my imagination. That cocktail looked like
one of these typical and iconic abstract works from the 20th century with
bands of horizontal colours: Blinky Palermo, Agnes Martin, Rothko, Ellsworth
Kelley and many more had done similar compositions in their paintings.”
The Xarrupa is an ongoing series of works that began in 2015 with the Cocktail
show at Galeria Balaguer.
Xarrupa que vessa, Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm , 2019GUANYAR-SE LES GARROFES
FUNDACIÓ JOAN MIRÓ, BARCELONA
2016
HD Film (12’ + 16’ + 11’)
Guanyar-les les garrofes is a video production of three chapters. Its leitmotif
is the garrofa (carob tree), which becomes the symbol of an imaginary avant-
garde movement, Garrofisme. The three chapters relate the gestation of this
new trend and take place in three emblematic places of Catalan modernity:
the Joan Miró Foundation, La Ricarda and Mont- roig del Camp.
At the Miró Foundation there is a banquet that recalls the symposia in
antiquity, a mixture of food, concert and conversation. In La Ricarda takes
place the moment of inspiration and first disquisitions of the leader of the
movement, performed by Marcel Rubio. Finally, in Mont-roig a procession
takes place to honour the carob tree, which has already become a venerated
element, an object of worship.
The project revolves around the image we have inherited of the avant-garde
movements in the Catalan context. As in performative caterings, this legacy
is directed and adapted to the local context, with all the irony arising from
the strange clash between the extreme idealism and dogmatism with which
the different “isms” and bias have often been characterized as vernacular,
between imported ideas and those of the territory itself.
This particular assimilation is not exempt of globalizing aspirations, another
defining element of the first avant-gardes. From the Mediterranean inflection,
it aspires to influence and transform the whole universe. But, as with the
incipient avant- garde formations in our context, the parrots of garrofisme
end up representing the illusion and illusions that come from a limited and
precarious reality, which is the reality in which most of the artists usually live.
Guanyar-se les garrofes, video, Fundació Miró. Barcelona, 2016Guanyar-se les garrofes, frame, Fundació Miró. Barcelona, 2016
COCTEL SHOW
GALERIA BALAGUER
2016
The proliferation of cocktails at selected art events takes takes over and
becomes the main theme of this exhibition. Visual references to avant-garde
movements are present in the paintings, creating an imaginary in which art is
subdued to cockatils.
During the years that Bernat Daviu worked at Christie’s, he wrote down the
drinks served at the Modern and Post-war art auctions. Daviu was curious to
find a relationship between the elegance and grandeur of the atmosphere and
the transgressive nature of many of the works.
After giving it some thought, Daviu decides that the cockatils served at
such events and that are meant to be secondary, become the protagonist in
this conflict. In this process, he also finds out that making a cocktail and a
painting is similar, in the sense that it is about adding and removing elements
(ingredients) until you reach the perfect combination.
Caipirinha, Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm, Galeria Balaguer. Barcelona, 2015Còctel show (exhibition view) Galeria Balaguer, Barcelona, 2015
Untitled, Oil on Canvas, Galeria Balaguer, Barcelona, 2015
Forever Blowing Bubbles, Performance, 2014-2015
En algun punt de la línia (Exhibition view), Uma certa falta de coerencia, Porto, 2014
En algun punt de la línia (Exhibition view), Uma certa falta de coerencia, Porto, 2014
BIO
Fonteta, 1985. Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain 2014
Sacsejar la mirada, Unzip, El Prat, Spain
Studies Un Francès, un Anglès i un Espanyol, La Puntual, St Cugat, Spain
Act I. A Way Home, The LivingRoom, London, UK
2005-2008 Central Saint Martin’s: BA (Hons) Fine Art (1st Class Honours), London, UK En algun punt de la línia, Uma Certa falta de Coerencia, Porto, Portugal (solo)
Painted Realities, Hanmi Gallery, London, UK
Exhibitions 2013
Bernat Daviu and Joan Saló, PictoBCN, El Siglo, St.Cugat, Spain
2019 Fundació Vila Casas Painting Award, Can Framis Museum, Barcelona, Spain
E gira tutto intorno alla Stanza (performance), Caixa Forum, Madrid Suspense (with Alaena Turner), UCL, London, UK
Sunday Art Fair, London 2012
Vernissage sur l’herbe, FESTUS, Torelló John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
La pintura. Un reto permanente, Caixa Forum, Barcelona 20 Rue de Jacob - A Salon for Performance and Other Happenings, Galleria Rajatila,
Coctel de gambes, Calella de Palafrugell Tampere, Finland
Premi de pintura Francesc Gimeno, Museu de Tortosa, Tortosa What do you do?, Intervention in LAUDA’s headquarters, Lauda-Königshofen, Germany
Le Lucky, curated by Josep Maynou, HVW8, Berlin What do you do?, Palau de Casavells, Casavells, Spain (solo)
2018 Orchestrated, Studio One Gallery, Cato Hall, London, UK
NADA Miami, Miami, USA Shelves, Chairs and Boiler suits, Tollbodallmenningen 39, Bergen, Norway
La gran tornada, Soho House El Garraf (performance) 2011
Jornada Garrofista, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona (performance) Stuff on the wall, on the floor, floating in the air..., Guest Projects, London, UK
Inmarchitables, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, USA The Public House- a pop-up home for performance, Elephant and Castle Shopping
Apaño (Angela de la Cruz, Vasilis Asimakopoulos, Bernat Daviu), Bombon projects, Centre, London, UK
Barcelona Art Barter, C arte C, Madrid, Spain
2017 2010
Loop Discover Award, Loop Film Festival, Antiga Fàbrica Damn, Barcelona Drive Thru (Old Bridge), with Harry Blackett and Sam Whittaker, Deptford X Festival,
Sublimey (group show with Marc Badia and Luis Guerra), Hans and Fritz, Barcelona London, UK
Garrofistes, Fundació Arranz-Bravo, l’Hospitalet de Llobregat (solo) From London With Love, Wanha Woimala, Vaajakoski, Finland
Trobada Garrofista (Forever Blowing Bubbles), MACBA, Barcelona (performance) The Real Van Gogh Part 2, Studio 1 Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2016 ‘The decade 2010-2020’ The Museum as hostage to fortune’, Pigeon Wing Gallery, Lon-
Guanyar-se les garrofes (Forever Blowing Bubbles), Fundació Miró, Barcelona, Spain don, UK
Slow, thick fingers, Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK 2009
2015 Pintura Democràtica, IV Bienal de Jafre, Jafre, Spain
Còctel Show, Galeria Balaguer, Barcelona, Spain (solo) Splash Paintings, Galeria Miquel Alzueta, Barcelona (solo)
Forever Blowing Bubbles, Nau Estruch, Sabadell, Spain Underground Temple For Paintings, with Harry Blackett at Next Art Fair, Chicago
Aleksandr Rodhcenko’s Stuffed Olive: Bernat Daviu / Redestinar: Bruno Ollé i Nikita The Little Show, Studio 1 Gallery, London, UK
Routchenko, The Laboratory, Barcelona, Spain Group Show, Galeria Miquel Alzueta, Barcelona2008 Jesús was an artist … Galeria Miquel Alzueta, Casavells, Spain (solo) CSM 08 Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London, UK 2007 Exporta-accions, Castell de la Bisbal d’Empordà, La Bisbal d’Empordà, Spain Super-heroes, Galeria Marita Segovia, Madrid, Spain (solo) Da! Tottenham Court Road, London, UK Publications Whose language does the produce speak?, Artist Alliance inc, 2018 Garrofistes -Bernat Daviu, Fundació Arranz-Bravo, 2017 Artist film and video today, Loop Barcelona, 2016 Porró, Apis press, Norway, 2014 Fundació Vila Casas painting award, Barcelona, 2013 Bombon PictoBCN, Barcelona, 2013 C/Trafalgar 45, local 3 What do you do?, Casavells, Spain, 2012 08010 Barcelona John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, UK, 2012 info@bombonprojects.com Shelves, Charis and Boilersuits, Apis press, Norway, 2012 From London with Love (limited edition of 200 copies), Finland, 2010 ‘The decade 2010-2020’ The Museum as hostage to fortune’, An Endless Supply, UK, 2010 Artists’ Impressions of Spaces for Paintings, An Endless Supply, UK, 2010 Underground Temple for Paintings, An Endless Supply, UK, 2010 Workshops & Residences 2018 Artist Alliance, New York, USA 2015 Nau Estruch, Sabadell, Spain 2012 Experimental cinema workshop by Walter Temporelli, Hangar, Barcelona. Screen- ing at Caixa Forum, Barcelona 2011 Retreat residency, Paradise Lost, Cumbria, UK
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