Narcís Comadira

The resident poet of the Gran Teatre del Liceu's 2026-2027 season, Narcís Comadira (Girona, 1942), is an essential figure of contemporary Catalan culture.

Narcís Comadira is a poet, essayist, translator and painter, and in his case word and image function as complementary forms of one and the same way of knowing. This exhibition brings together his painting practice, which maintains a constant link with his writing and shares with it rigour, restraint and a reflective gaze on reality. The Gran Teatre del Liceu is hosting the exhibition as part of its cultural programme.

The works belong to a tradition of critical classicism, far removed from stridency. Still lifes, landscapes and architectural subjects are built with a formal austerity that alludes to permanence and to a settled time. The colour is sober, often primary, and the composition pays careful attention to the weight of each element. Between presence and absence, the visible coexists with the barely suggested.

In Comadira's work, the relationship between poetry and painting is not a simple translation between languages, but a shared pursuit of precision and of the truthfulness of gesture. For those familiar with his literary career, the visit makes it possible to see how painting works as an exercise in order and contemplation, in which each form seems to hold a latent memory.