Narcís Comadira — Painting and Poetry at Liceu

Narcís Comadira (Girona, 1942) articulates word and image as complementary languages. A poet, essayist, translator, his visual art dialogues with his writing. It shares rigor, restraint, a deeply reflective gaze upon reality.

His painting aligns with a critical classicism, distant from fanfare. Still lifes, landscapes, architectures are built with formal austerity. They evoke permanence, a sedimented time. Color, measured and sober, often primary, acts as a breathing space. Composition reveals an almost moral attention to each element's weight. For Comadira, painting is an exercise in order, a way of establishing just relationships between things.

The pictorial work offers a lucid vision of the world, aware of its fragility. A constant tension between presence and absence, the visible and the hinted. This economy of resources gives the painting a silent density, where each form seems to contain a latent memory, like a verse that continues to resonate beyond the page.

The relationship between poetry and painting is not a mere transposition of languages, but a shared quest: precision, measure, the truth of the gesture. If words allow him to contemplate the world through the music of language, painting offers a space for contemplation where time slows, the gaze sharpens. Both practices converge in a singular ethic of form: clarity, expressive responsibility.

In the Saló dels Miralls of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, this selection of Comadira's paintings offers a pause. A moment of quiet reflection, an invitation to attentive contemplation. Painting becomes silent word, and silence, a profound form of listening.