New exhibit gives visual form to beloved poetry

Good poetry isn’t only read: it’s felt. This is how the new Josep Palau i Fabre exhibit in Barcelona was designed - as a visual, physical, and all-encompassing experience, mixing the work of the Catalan poet and writer and that of various artists.

“We wanted to put on an exhibit that showed Palau i Fabre’s poetry and that gave physical and visual presence to it through artists from different disciplines, interpreting his work,” explained the curator of the exhibit, Julià Guillamon. In the display, various art pieces re-interpret the poetry from the writer’s book ‘Poemes de l’Alquimista.’