Turpentine. A metaphor for painting
Àlex Nogué and Joan Descarga
Inauguration: Saturday 12 May 2007
7.00 p.m. on the platform of Camallera station
Jordi Font “Camallera station isn’t Finland station”
7.30 p.m. Walk from Camallera to Nau Côclea
Yeun-Hee, Kim “00:00:00”
8.00 p.m. Nau Côclea: Edible presentation of the book
Turpentine. A metaphor for the painting of Joan Descarga and Àlex Nogué, led by Mireia Saladrigues “Dibagatges”.
Turpentine is a product derived from the distillation of resin from the red pine. It is commonly used both in oil painting and in many medicinal essences and ointments. This common use invites a metaphorical exploration that prompts a reflective discourse on the “trementinaires”, or the “women who wander the world” as they were known, whose ingenuity and traditional knowledge of the therapeutic properties of plants enabled them to overcome penury by travelling throughout Catalonia to sell the medicines they had made from woodland products.