Aplec - Tribute to JOAN BROSSA

The A seems to have been for BROSSA the most mischievous and playful of all the letters, the beginning of everything, the most changeable and the most constant.

This artist's book offers 100 A letters for you to play with by creating your own object poems: making compositions with them, cutting them out, transforming them into other things or combining them with other objects to create new possibilities and meanings.

Photograph: Joan Brossa seated with an A in his hand. Pau Barceló, 1974 on loan from the Joan Brossa Foundation.

APLEC is for...

...lovers of Joan Brossa's work, will find 29 magnificent visual poems by the artist.

...children from 6 years old, teenagers and older , since this is when they begin to discover the wonderful world of letters, and it is useful for them to experiment with them and rediscover them in a new and creative way.

... all those who think they are not creative and are not capable of creating. 

Why I created it...

Joan Brossa is an artist of reference for me and my Fine Arts classmates with whom we created a collective called "L'Arbre, el Porc i la Flor". From 1995 to 2001 we edited story-objects and made artistic installations that included play and words as means of expression.

The year 2018 marked the centenary of Brossa's birth. To celebrate it and as a tribute, I created a series of creative objects -Abrossadari(o), Aplec and Pillut Brossa- in collaboration with Fundació Joan Brossa.