Image: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya has highlighted 'Vesica piscis', an intervention by artist Fernando Prats in the museum’s Romanesque art rooms, as a project that draws subtle parallels between distant historical periods. According to the museum’s Canal+MNAC page, the work consists of a group of pieces that connect the passage of time, the rhythms of nature and the hidden geometries found in Romanesque art.
The project is presented as a route that runs through the Romanesque galleries and ties the different parts of the presentation into a single whole. The museum says Prats creates this itinerary through “alternative landscapes,” allowing the works to unfold across the rooms rather than remain isolated as individual objects.
In the museum’s description, Prats traces “the registers of universal movement” with the complicity of gravity and the wingbeat of birds. Those elements feed into a broader visual language that evokes changing landscapes and the experience of time passing. The page also frames the intervention as a reflection on representation, with nature treated as an artistic subject through pictorial works that develop the idea of landscape.
The project is curated by Gloria Moure, according to the MNAC page. The museum further notes that the intervention brings together works that are described as “outside time” and that approach painting as a layered, deep and skillful sedimentation of the contradictions inherent in human experience.
The description emphasizes the dialogue between contemporary practice and the Romanesque collection rather than a fixed exhibition setting. Prats’ intervention is situated in the museum’s Romanesque rooms, where the artist’s visual traces are presented alongside the architecture and historical works that frame the project.
MNAC’s Canal+MNAC page presents 'Vesica piscis' as part of its ongoing artist-focused video series, under the museum’s “Mira” section. The page is credited to the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, and identifies the museum’s site at Palau Nacional, Parc de Montjuïc.
