Toti Toronell and the Jove de Dans Invitro Company will close the Friday and Saturday sessions at Can Doro
With the transition from a Fair to a Festival, Argillà Argentona made a clear commitment to programming shows with mud as the centerpiece. This year, it’s the turn of two very different offerings to debut at Argentona, aiming to connect with all kinds of audiences. Without a doubt, the best way to close out the Friday-through-Saturday events at Argillà, with free admission!
Friday, the clown’s turn
If you’re looking for a good time, don’t miss “Fangs” by Toti Toronell. A sweet show set around a fair and pottery wheels, accompanied by Cinta Pellicer’s cello. An interesting proposal from a clown and circus artist who also creates ceramic works. The show is presented as a “unique visual and sound experience” that explores the manual creation process through the use of the pottery wheel, with direct interaction with the audience, who can observe in real time how the material is transformed through the hands of the wheel, while Toti transforms and deforms the pieces to turn them into stories.
- Friday, July 4 – 10:30 p.m. (Can Doro)
The Companyia Jove de Dans Invitro will premiere its show “Rústica” at Can Doro. This dance piece transports us to the simple, traditional Catalan landscape. Three women in an everyday setting work, celebrate, and interact with elements that transport us to the beauty of the environment and small things, silence and contemplation, contemplation and celebration.
- Saturday, July 5 – 10:30 p.m. (Can Doro)
Three unmissable exhibitions
Argillà 2025 will welcome all visitors with three high-quality exhibitions, opening on Friday, July 4.
First, the Museu del Càntir exhibition hall will host “Llindar”, by Emili Biarnés (Barcelona, 1956). A display of works created throughout his long and fruitful artistic career that, after all, manage to form a unified whole and showcase the artist’s personality.
An exhibition of exquisite beauty, with a high degree of research, resulting in hybrid objects, featuring glass, iron, and engobes, all combined with fire.
- Museu del Càntir – Until September 14
In the garden of Casa Puig y Cadafalch, we’ll be greeted by the large ceramic pieces of Jan Madrenas, with his exhibition “Habitar la forma”. The artist himself explains: “In my large-format ceramics, form isn’t projected, but rather inhabits: it emerges from a physical dialogue with the clay, on a human scale, almost intimate. The process is slow, charged with presence and listening. I don’t seek to impose a structure, but rather to accompany the construction from a place of fragility, resistance, and transformation. Fire and time leave their mark, turning each piece into a living record of its own becoming. Therefore, my pieces are not closed objects, but rather inhabited forms, spaces open to gesture, memory, and experience”.
- Gardens of the Puig i Cadafalch house – From July 4 to 6
Finally, the Saló de Pedra will host “Pell d’Argila” Ramon Forns’s photographic project, carried out from 2020 to 2023. Through twenty images, Forns invites us to reflect on the relationship we currently have with our bodies. On the one hand, hands mold their bodies with clay, as in creation, covering the intended imperfections, shaping a new image to the taste of the artisan and the sensations this causes. On the other hand, clay as a therapy that nourishes and revitalizes our skin and eliminates the toxins we no longer want. All this in a process of love, acceptance, and worship of one’s own body, where the images evoke this moment of relaxation and introspection from the deepest respect. We will see humans playing with clay, with light and shadow, in chiaroscuro-style images that generate an atmosphere of mysticism. The beauty of human diversity is shown through twenty-five participants.
- Saló de Pedra – From July 4th to 6th
