Screenings
« El cuaderno de barro », Isaki Lacuesta, 2011, 60 min.

For over twenty years, Miquel Barceló has lived between Spain, France, and Mali. The artist began spending a great deal of his time in this part of West Africa after falling in love with the country when he crossed the Sahara from Algeria in 1988. In Mali he works, experiments with new techniques, and immerses himself in the place. In 2011, the filmmaker sought him out and filmed him as he spent his day in the Dogon village close to where he lives. El cuaderno de barro [The Clay Diary] shows the influence a country and its people have had on the artist’s life and work, following in particular his collaboration with the choreographer Josef Nadj on a performance piece called Paso doble, a manual-labor ballet, you could say. During the piece the two men build and sculpt a fresco of fresh clay that conjures up the birth and death of the world, human beings and art.