Mots robats

An exhibition of Anet Duncan Byng in dialogue with the poetry of Josep Palau i Fabre, featuring painting in which figuration and abstraction combine around the figure, the portrait and the landscape.

The exhibition brings together works by Anet Duncan Byng, an artist trained in Durban, where she worked in batik and painting, and who later ran a screen-printing workshop in Geneva. She has lived in Barcelona for many years, and it was in this city that she met the poet Josep Palau i Fabre, with whom the pieces enter into a dialogue.

In her paintings, the figure, the portrait and the landscape are the main subjects, and figuration merges with abstraction. Light acts as the element that organises each composition, while the colour and the atmosphere of the scenes are handled with great delicacy. The artist's style has evolved from figurative realism towards a combination of abstraction and poetry.

The Fundació Palau, which hosts exhibitions and cultural activities in Barcelona, presents the ensemble as a route designed for lovers of painting and poetry who want to see how the two disciplines converse.