LLEIDA POETRY FESTIVAL 2026. The Ring of the Museum
In 1989, three friends, Àngel Jové, Benet Rossell and Carles H. Mor began a physical and mental journey through the lands of Ponent, through the villages and dry lands of extreme Lleida: Les Garrigues, El Segrià, El Baix Cinca, El Matarraña and L’Urgell.
The yellow Renault 4L that was carrying them revealed a territory that Àngel Jové wanted to read with his Polaroid camera, images that, manipulated in many cases directly, represent a splendid metaphor for the poetry that exists in things and the talent that is needed to understand it. Dark, surreal, endearing, scatological, rare, ironic, iconic snapshots. Various beasts, dead beasts, taciturn dogs, empty roads. Crosses, flowers, posts.
In the framework of the Lleida Poetry Festival 2026 we want to commemorate, thus, one of the most singular, and too often forgotten, artistic personalities, such as Àngel Jové. With him, and others of his generation, the informalist and conceptual thing becomes present in a very gray cultural and artistic fallow. Or brown dry land.
Part of this set of images was accompanied by a declaimed and improvised poem by Carles Hac Mor, on the occasion of the publication of the book De Franja Pur (Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs, 2000). Some fragments are reproduced in the exhibition.
The set of Polaroids are part of the Museum’s collection, some from the National Collection of Contemporary Art of the Generalitat de Catalunya and others from the donation that Àngel Jové himself made to MORERA.
In 1989, three friends, Àngel Jové, Benet Rossell and Carles H. Mor began a physical and mental journey through the lands of Ponent, through the villages and dry lands of extreme Lleida: Les Garrigues, El Segrià, El Baix Cinca, El Matarraña and L’Urgell.
The yellow Renault 4L that was carrying them revealed a territory that Àngel Jové wanted to read with his Polaroid camera, images that, manipulated in many cases directly, represent a splendid metaphor for the poetry that exists in things and the talent that is needed to understand it. Dark, surreal, endearing, scatological, rare, ironic, iconic snapshots. Various beasts, dead beasts, taciturn dogs, empty roads. Crosses, flowers, posts.
In the framework of the Lleida Poetry Festival 2026 we want to commemorate, thus, one of the most singular, and too often forgotten, artistic personalities, such as Àngel Jové. With him, and others of his generation, the informalist and conceptual thing becomes present in a very gray cultural and artistic fallow. Or brown dry land.
Part of this set of images was accompanied by a declaimed and improvised poem by Carles Hac Mor, on the occasion of the publication of the book De Franja Pur (Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs, 2000). Some fragments are reproduced in the exhibition.
The set of Polaroids are part of the Museum’s collection, some from the National Collection of Contemporary Art of the Generalitat de Catalunya and others from the donation that Àngel Jové himself made to MORERA.
Exhibition hall
