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The Alchemy of Matter Barcelona, 1948. A group of young rebels gathers to challenge a barren cultural landscape. Modest Cuixart joins Joan Brossa, Joan Ponç, Antoni Tàpies, Joan-Josep Tharrats, and A. Puig to launch the Dau al Set magazine. They seek the magical and mysterious side of reality. The early years are defined by a search for the unexpected. Ink drawings, watercolours, and oils form abstract compositions that lean into geome
tric automatism. These works carry the weight of post-war ruins, utilizing debris, collages, and incised supports to build enigmatic landscapes and celestial figures. The mid-1950s bring a shift toward the physical. During his Lyon period, Cuixart enters a dense informalist cycle. He attacks his supports, burning or incising wood to create texture. He glues objects directly onto the surface, developing what are known as heteroplastic…