The Night of Museums

As part of the Night of Museums 2026 and the exhibition “Counterpastoral. Art and Farming”, MORERA organizes and presents the action “Chair. From nature to custom “by Pep Aymerich .

In this action Pep Aymerich builds a chair from a chestnut tree trunk using traditional tools and techniques. The simplicity and efficiency with which he works and arranges them on the carpenter’s bench and on the easel created by this action, together with the care he takes of the body and the intrinsic gestures when using them, invite the viewer to enjoy the action in an eloquent tempo marked by the constant, direct and harmonious rhythm that generates complicity and the desire to see the final result. The craft and the artist, therefore, merge the balance that goes from nature to measure.

Cadira unfolds like a piece on stage, a precise dramaturgy driven by percussive noises and the presence of matter and a producing body. Pep Aymerich has carefully rehearsed the movement of his body in space and its dialogue with the wood. Strength, dexterity, efficiency, balance, cadence. With a great economy of gestures, he has been very careful to pause and sequence the movements so that the viewer knows, at all times, where in the process we are. Although it is with the gaze, the viewer also assumes the complexity of the journey and the multiple decisions that it requires. This is how the complicity with a process of announced result is absolute. Cadira advances like a mantra, like a meditation that gives you time to think about the doing and about the need to look at the objects again. As we witness the physical process of making a chair, the boundaries between production, scenography, performance, technique, art and craft are blurred to leave us in a new place, something like a new paradigm. When for years we have entrusted our object-producing capacity to the strict and distant logic of the machine, returning it to the immediate and physical action of a body can only be ascribed to the realm of artistic practice. This is the perplexity and conceptual beauty that the Chair action generates.

Pep Aymerich

He began his career in the art world in the 1980s as a self-taught artist and has worked in different artistic disciplines such as performance, video art, sculpture, installation and, more recently, in the scenography of theatre and dance. As a cabinetmaker, “Chair” is the first work in which he explicitly fuses art and craft. The continuous research into the spiritual knowledge of the human being results in an introspective imprint that is common throughout his work and career. The deep knowledge he has of materials such as wood, wax and stone give him the authority to put them at the service of the creation of the work. Since 1986 he has held various actions and exhibitions in Girona, Barcelona, ​​Madrid, France and London. He received the 1st Prize for Sculpture at the IV Girona Biennial, the 1st Prize for Public Sculpture in Banyoles and also in Celrà.

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