Maestro Antonio Martorell will offer a guided tour of his exhibition “Gaza, Gasa, Gauze” on (his birthday!) Saturday, April 18, at 2:00pm at the gallery of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture [Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP)] located at Calle del Morro, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. [For more details on the exhibition, see our previous post Gaza Gasa Gauze: Antonio Martorell and his Friends.] All About Art describes the exhibition; see excerpts here, and the full article at facebook.com/artaboutall.
Description: The exhibition brings together a body of recent work that articulates matter, language, and memory to examine the persistent effects of armed conflict and art’s capacity to activate processes of collective consciousness.
The exhibition project is built upon a precise conceptual gesture: the convergence of territory, language, and materiality. The title establishes a semantic bridge between a geopolitical space marked by violence, a textile associated with the care of the wounded body, and its linguistic equivalent in English. This relationship functions not as a mere play on words, but as a critical strategy that links history, violence, and reparation through rigorous visual poetics.
In this proposal, Martorell reaffirms a trajectory sustained by symbolic research and ethical reflection. His creative methodology prioritizes deliberate thought and conceptual elaboration over immediacy, allowing each work to take shape as a space of emotional and intellectual resonance. The result is an exhibition that avoids sensationalism and instead positions itself as a framework for interpreting human dignity, historical memory, and the responsibility inherent in the creative act. [. . .]
Seen as a whole, the exhibition proposes art as an act of revelation and care. By symbolically covering the wound, the artwork does not conceal it, but rather makes it visible, inviting a critical reading of the present. From this perspective, artistic practice asserts itself as a space of cultural responsibility, capable of contributing to the construction of memory and the opening of necessary dialogues in a world marked by violence.
For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/icppr
Also see our previous post https://repeatingislands.com/2026/02/10/exhibition-gaza-gasa-gauze-antonio-martorell-friends/
[Photo of Maestro Antonio Martorell above by ICP.]
Maestro Antonio Martorell will offer a guided tour of his exhibition “Gaza, Gasa, Gauze” on (his birthday!) Saturday, April 18, at 2:00pm at the gallery of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture [Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP)] located at Calle del Morro, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. [For more details on the exhibition, see our
