The works Endurance (Monocrom) I and II, by Pep Duran, form part of the exhibition “Cúmul. Pep Duran“, that can be visited at the Centre d’Arts Contemporànies de Vic (ACVIC) from 21 February to 23 April 2025.

Since his earliest exhibitions, Pep Duran has always cultivated collage as a tool for interpreting the world. He is prominent among those artists who insisted upon the essence of collage: building from fragments. The artist treats collage as if it were a stage score. All kinds of scraps, photographs, papers, cardboards, wood, have been his recurring materials. His works have a pronounced and specific theatricality in which the resulting images are like a large kaleidoscope or palimpsest, which he assembles according to the space.

In this new exhibition, the artist starts with some artworks from 2004-2006 in which he used small fragments of photographs from his archive while building clusters of images and unreal landscapes, which today constitutes this continuum that unfolds through the exhibition space; a graphic accumulation, a wordless novel, a large collage.