The sculpture that generates landscape

In the main square of Bellavista rests I will walk around like a fool, a sixteen-meter sphere created with old, chained vines, is the work of Catalan sculptor Cristina Gavilán, whose workshop is right across the street. "It's an expression the Italians use. In Catalan, it would mean "wandering," to wander aimlessly," she explains. "My idea was for the sculpture to travel through the territory to which it belongs, for the wind to carry it between vineyards, for the birds to come closer," but setting it free, in these times, is certainly a risk. The sculpture is a result of the final project she presented at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. "Pushing the sphere symbolizes the effort of the farmer, and its rounded shape speaks to the cycles of the vine and of life. Subtly, also to the death of my father," she reveals, always linking territory and identity.

Gavilán comes from the world of realist and expressionist animal and human sculpture. She has a long history in casting processes, with nationally and internationally recognized works for companies such as Foneria Vilà and Quagga, but she also has her own collection. She cultivates the art of expanded sculpture and likes to talk about artistic transversality. She is a thoughtful and cultured woman. Her work is imbued with philosophical and essayistic arguments: "Creating a landscape is implicit in walking. With I will walk around like a fool, I also generate it. I speak of walking as a symbolic action to inhabit the world." For her, art must be charged with meaning rather than significance. She paraphrases Heidegger while reviewing the conceptual map of the work: "The relationship between art and space is conceived from the experience of place. It is not a conquest, it is an incarnation. I understand space as a being."

She is used to walking across the Alt Camp plain with two hunting dogs. Art leads her to constantly respect, admire, and honor the landscape that breathes and nourishes it. With her, the sculpture leaps from the pedestal and integrates into the field. Belonging, a small cottage built with old roots that now crowns a dry stone wall between carob trees: "I wanted to merge with the territory through architecture. I blend in, I merge, I commune, as the poet Josep Guies e. Yi-Fu Tuan would say: "A point on a coordinate becomes a place when the human being imbricates emotion."