Dau al set

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Dau al Set [ ˈdaw əɫ ˈsɛt ] ( Catalan for 'die showing a seven') was a Spanish artist group whose members were Catalan artists and writers.

The group was founded in Barcelona in 1948 . The founding members were the painters and artists Modest Cuixart , Joan Ponç , Joan Josep Tharrats , and Antoni Tàpies , the philosopher Arnau Puig and the poet Joan Brossa , who created the group name and who significantly inspired the group. Another member was Juan Eduardo Cirlot . Other artists who were not members, but were represented by the group in exhibitions, were: Antonio Saura , Jorge Oteiza and Josep Maria Subirachs .

The group name Dau al Set ('cube that shows a seven' or 'seven-sided cube') ties in with the pre-war Barcelona tradition of surrealism . Dau al Set , like the artist group El Paso founded in Madrid in 1957, was of enormous importance for the development of modern art in Spain after the Second World War .

Dau al Set published a magazine under the group name. The magazine appeared in Catalan, Spanish and French . In addition to art and literature , the Dau al Set magazine also addressed philosophy , ethnology and anthropology . The magazine was supported by the art collector and hatter Joan Prats and the poet Josep Vicenç Foix .

Dau al Set was founded in opposition to academic and statecraft. The aim was the development of abstract painting in abstract expressionism and informel . The source of artistic creation should be the unconscious, the imagination and the magic . The group had connections to the Surrealist and Dadaist movements, but remained independent in its artistic orientation.

Dau al Set began to disintegrate from 1952 and finally dissolved in 1956. The individual members went their own artistic ways. Only Brossa, Ponç and Cirlot remained true to the original spirit.

Literature and Sources

  • Hansel, Sylvaine; Karge, Henrik: Spanish Art History - An Introduction , (in 2 volumes); Volume 2: From the Renaissance to Today ; Berlin 1991; ISBN 3-496-01082-7
  • Quer, Jordi ( publ .): Dau al Set, la segona avantguarda catalana ; Barcelona 2011; ISBN 978-84-7226-941-5