Xavier Mariscal

Exhibition devoted to the work of Xavier Mariscal in the Saló dels Miralls of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, focusing on free-hand drawing, colour and characters from popular culture.

The exhibition occupies the Saló dels Miralls of the Gran Teatre del Liceu and brings together the work of Xavier Mariscal. At the heart of the display is a loose, playful line that retains the spontaneity of the initial gesture rather than polishing it. Building on this foundation, the works feature figures, colours and forms that engage with popular culture, design, music and everyday life.

A large part of the repertoire recalls Olympic Barcelona, a city of open spirit and collective energy experienced as a space for experimentation and encounter. This memory has an affective rather than documentary dimension and looks towards the present. Intense colour, deliberate simplicity and understated humour serve to move away from solemnity and recover a direct way of seeing.

The Liceu, Barcelona's opera house, thus hosts a display that presents drawing as a recognisable language, so that each work is identified as much by its line as by its humour.