Imatge Xevi Bayona

Xevi Bayona

Since he was a child, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Olot. He also studies architecture in Barcelona and Portugal, at the FAUP, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto. Architect from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) with the PFC Library-Toy Library in Espinho, Portugal. Postgraduate Degree in Landscaping at the (ETSAB) and Master in Theory and Practice of the Architectural Project at the (ETSAB) with the dissertation “La Girona dels Carrers-Escala”. Since 2008 he has been a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Girona. Since 2018 he is Professor at Elisava’s international master’s degree in ephemeral architecture. Winner of several awards, including three FAD awards, several finalist and selected projects, winner of awards and mentions of architecture of the Counties of Girona and winner of the contest Changing Tracks, a European project to make 3 installations in Catalonia , England and Ireland. Since 2017 he has been collaborating and carrying out projects together with Àlex Posada, MID Studio. He has carried out civil works such as the Rehabilitation of the State Bridge of Tortosa over the river Ebro, the rehabilitation of the sports area of ​​Sant Jaume de Llierca or the Olot Fair, as well as works of housing architecture. He has given lectures, workshops and made ephemeral interventions in various European cities.

He has been the Artistic Director of the Fire and Light Festival, Lluèrnia d’Olot, since its inception.

Bayona Studio is a workshop and studio in the center of the city of Olot, working with experimentation and essay as a method, criticism as learning, emotions as a tool, interpretation and respect for the environment social, physical and cultural, enthusiasm and intense research as fuel. All at the crossroads of architecture, town planning, art, landscape, ephemeral installations and light sculptures, a mixture of disciplines that feed back and complement each other.

Work presented:

 

Volia parlar de la vida i volia parlar de la mort.

Seixanta-set cossos erigits amb una maldestra capa de fang que els confereix la ruda senzillesa d’un cos nu. La pluja els erosiona com si en despullés la pròpia pell per deixar entreveure el mateix to de blanc del recinte i les creus del cementiri de Juià, una meravella arquitectònica que va projectar en Rafael Masó a 1917.
Els cossos es van enterrant com més a la vora estan del cementiri. El seu conjunt forma un camí imaginari vers el recinte edificat, vers les profunditats de la terra. Volen ser una reflexió en forma de poema.

Volia parlar de la vida i volia parlar de la mort.

 




Art&Gavarres 2022- Xevi Bayona (explicació) from 24 imatges x segon on Vimeo.