— Colisión. Gonzalo Guzmán

Services and fees

What does GRAF offer

— Shared calendar
Access to the internal organization tool for GRAF’s spaces. It gathers the information of all the activities planned for the future or in the process of being programmed. The aim of the calendar is to share this information in the mid and long term, in order to generate valuable knowledge and enable the strategic planning of new activities. The advantage of this is the optimization of resources. GRAF provides direct contact with the rest of GRAF’s spaces.

— Public agenda
Bring to light and spread the programme of the spaces in the public access agenda. The agenda offers a quick consultation site of GRAF spaces’ programme, proposals from different fields of contemporary art and from all over the Catalan geography. The aim of the agenda is to make the programme of institutional and independent spaces/projects more accessible and to contribute in the development of new audiences, facilitating the transfer between different disciplines.

— Search engine
Access to all the information related to the spaces and their programmes published in GRAF, both present and past. GRAF generates an archive of the events that have taken place in the context of Barcelona and Catalonia, as well as of the spaces that have been part of them. Thus, GRAF contributes to the collective memory, visibilizes the reality of the context and offers a free access point to check this information.

— Personalized support
Support to the spaces for the publication of its programme in the calendar. The online tool is based on a personalized relationship with each one of the spaces in order to detect their specific needs and to periodically facilitate the entering of your data.

— GRAF meetings
Periodic meetings with the spaces to share their programme, evaluate GRAF and program activities of interest for the spaces and the specialized audience. GRAF is constantly evolving in dialogue with the needs of the spaces.

— Social networks
Support for the visibility of the spaces and the activities that they programme through GRAF’s social networks.

— Monthly newsletter
Information channel, via email, with the monthly programme of GRAF’s spaces. Preview of the spaces’s programme, which is then expanded in detail in the weekly agenda. The Newsletter helps reaching the final user with the information of the spaces

— GRAF Routes
Periodic articles made by external collaborators and/or people linked to GRAF’s spaces. GRAF’s Routes generate a virtual tour of the local cultural scene, including some of GRAF space’s programmes.

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Do you want more? GRAF special services

— Highlighted space in the agenda
GRAF provides highlighted spaces on the agenda, in the form of banners, to announce special events. The banner is composed of an image and/or a text, in horizontal or vertical format. It works as a link to an external web page and it is visible for as long as you need on the main page of GRAF.net, accompanied by all the programme of the weekly agenda.

— We publish your programme in GRAF
GRAF offers a data entry service for spaces with a high-volume programme. You periodically send us your schedule for the future and we publish it on GRAF’s calendar in order to save time and assure you share your updated and long-term information with the rest of the spaces and with the audience.

— Communication campaign
GRAF designs specific communication campaigns for the spaces. We think about how you can support your special programme with all the facilities of GRAF’s platform.

For more information write to info@graf.cat.

Gonzalo Guzmán (Madrid, 1991) educated as an industrial designer and has been working in sculpture since the time of the pandemic, when he began to have lucid dreams, an experience that can affect up to 50% of the population at least once in their lives. In them, the subject is aware that he is living a dream and from that point he takes control of his development.

Lucid dreams have marked Gonzalo Guzmán, and as a result of experiencing them, he decided to radically change his life and dedicate himself fully to sculpture in order to capture his dreams. His artistic production is made up of metallic pieces of stainless steel that refer to megalithic monuments such as dolmens, which often appear in his dream world. The creation of sculptures is a form of research to translate these figures into reality. The fact of materialising them enables Guzmán to interact with them on the real plane, and at the same time other people can do so. In addition, the material embodiment of these works raises awareness of how dreams can transform our surroundings.

The centrepiece of the exhibition is Collision, a structure that has also been the protagonist of his dreams. This installation is composed of the representation of a three-metre stainless steel stalactite suspended from the ceiling of the gallery on a reflective surface. The reflection of the stalactite on the area generates the illusion that there is also a stalagmite and, therefore, they are two structures that are about to touch. The strength of the composition lies in the closeness of an impossible collision; in the tension of volumes about to collide.

When looking at the installation, the spectator may question whether he is really looking at a six-metre structure or a three-metre structure reflected on a surface. However, neither of the two options is wrong. Likewise, the perception of time is also altered through the presence in the exhibition of an inoperative clock, since when we dream the notion of time fades away. The questions suggested by the observation of Collision lead us to reflect on the blurred boundaries between what is and what is not real. This same situation happens in lucid dreams where the unknown remains as to what is part of them, and consequently, the apprehension of reality and our belief system may collide.

GRAF is a tool to improve the communication and coordination between the spaces of contemporary art in Catalonia. The agenda of those who share their agendas.

Services and fees

What does GRAF offer

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Do you want more? GRAF special services

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