23-25/11/2018 – ‘Simplicio sound experience’ Milan

Note to the exhibition:

The Catalan culture has always sought a dimension of its own, differentiating itself from the rest of the Iberian peninsula. Barcelona is a lively and culturally curious city where all the trends and artistic movements developed in the most important European capitals converge and are absorbed and revised according to Catalan sensibility.

The strong economic and cultural growth that the city experienced at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries led to a real artistic and cultural renaissance that captured and completely overwhelmed the whole city, deeply renewing it.

The art nouveau, originally born in France and Belgium, developed strongly in the Catalan capital, involving every artistic expression, from architecture to design and from painting to sculpture, becoming a distinguishing element of the city. The revival of the baroque classicism presented in a modern key is extraordinarily refined and reformulated with luxurious and sophisticated details. The beauty search becomes the characteristic desired by the intellectual élite, gradually influencing the taste of the entire population and also modifying musical aesthetics.

In this context, the work of the great Catalan luthier Simplicio fits. His guitars celebrate this artistic current with rich, elaborate aesthetics and dark and elegant sound.

Guitars in exhibitions:

Enrique Garcia 1922 N.272 ex Domingo Prat
Francisco Simplicio 1926 N.66 rosewood back and sides
Francisco Simplicio 1926 N.68 flamed maple back and sides ex Rafael Valdiz
Francisco Simplicio 1927 N.156 ex Augustin Barrios
Francisco Simplicio 1929 N.231 back / sides in mahogany feather from Cuba with tornavoz
Francisco Simplicio 1930 N.7 sperimental model
Francisco Simplicio 1931 N.316 model“ Esposition” ex Abel Fleury
Miguel Simplicio 1932 N.342 classical model
Casa Nunez, Buenos Aires – Inspired by Simplicio
Pietro Gallinotti, Solero 1957 – Inspired by Simplicio

Brochure of the event