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El Bartolí

2024
Polyptych of twelve paper-clay porcelain sheets and citrus fruits mounted on a wooden frame and backlit with LED light. 135 × 135 cm

Developed in collaboration with Todolí Citrus Fundació.


El Bartolí is a porcelain catalogue of the citrus collection of Todolí Citrus Fundació, one of the world’s major collections of these fruits, established by Vicente Todolí in Palmera, Valencia.

The polyptych consists of twelve three-dimensional sheets that serve as a physical record of the twelve varietal groups that make up the collection. These include citrons, limes, mandarins, lemons, bitter and sweet oranges, pummelos, grapefruits, papedas, kumquats, Australian citrus and trifoliate oranges.

Each sheet records four to six different fruits from one of the groups, selected by Oscar Olivares, the foundation’s technical director. Together, the work records a total of 60 varieties.

Due to their remarkable capacity for hybridisation, citrus fruits have given rise to an extraordinary diversity, of which Todolí Citrus Fundació houses more than 400 varieties. This is a fragile biodiversity that requires extensive care to recover, preserve and diversify the living record of centuries of transfers and exchanges of plants and seeds between continents, and of the crossing and mutation of species in orchards and gardens.

In societies where perception develops in disregard of this vast gastronomic heritage, where the palate tends towards uniformity—moving in the opposite direction to a nature that creates diversity—these biocultural processes of hybridisation and mixing acquire particular relevance: they celebrate difference and bring diverse landscapes, cultures and everyday lives into relation through a nature used for aesthetic and gustatory pleasure.

The work’s formal resolution emerges from an investigation into texture and form in translucent porcelain. Through the interaction between organic materials—citrus fruits and paper pulp—and inorganic materials—porcelain—folds are formed that contain vegetal forms and textures within them, revealed by the light passing through them.

Porcelain, as a material that interferes, penetrates and records, allows us to imprint a trace of these physical and symbolic interiors, capturing the most sublime details, the intricacies of these fruits and, ultimately, our own.




Carles Tarrassó








Presented at:
UVNT Art Fair, Madrid (now CAN Art Fair), 2024
Included in Pan y Circo, Centro Cultural Antiguo Instituto, Gijón, Spain, 2024





citrons,
limes,
mandarins,
lemons,
bitter oranges,
sweet oranges,
pummelos,
grapefruits,
papedas,
kumquats,
Australian citrus
trifoliate oranges.





Polyptych of twelve paper-clay porcelain sheets and citrus fruits mounted on a wooden frame and backlit with LED light. 135 × 135 cm

Developed in collaboration with Todolí Citrus Fundació.


El Bartolí is a porcelain catalogue of the citrus collection of Todolí Citrus Fundació, one of the world’s major collections of these fruits, established by Vicente Todolí in Palmera, Valencia.

The polyptych consists of twelve three-dimensional sheets that serve as a physical record of the twelve varietal groups that make up the collection. These include citrons, limes, mandarins, lemons, bitter and sweet oranges, pummelos, grapefruits, papedas, kumquats, Australian citrus and trifoliate oranges.

Each sheet records four to six different fruits from one of the groups, selected by Oscar Olivares, the foundation’s technical director. Together, the work records a total of 60 varieties.

Due to their remarkable capacity for hybridisation, citrus fruits have given rise to an extraordinary diversity, of which Todolí Citrus Fundació houses more than 400 varieties. This is a fragile biodiversity that requires extensive care to recover, preserve and diversify the living record of centuries of transfers and exchanges of plants and seeds between continents, and of the crossing and mutation of species in orchards and gardens.

In societies where perception develops in disregard of this vast gastronomic heritage, where the palate tends towards uniformity—moving in the opposite direction to a nature that creates diversity—these biocultural processes of hybridisation and mixing acquire particular relevance: they celebrate difference and bring diverse landscapes, cultures and everyday lives into relation through a nature used for aesthetic and gustatory pleasure.

The work’s formal resolution emerges from an investigation into texture and form in translucent porcelain. Through the interaction between organic materials—citrus fruits and paper pulp—and inorganic materials—porcelain—folds are formed that contain vegetal forms and textures within them, revealed by the light passing through them.

Porcelain, as a material that interferes, penetrates and records, allows us to imprint a trace of these physical and symbolic interiors, capturing the most sublime details, the intricacies of these fruits and, ultimately, our own.




Carles Tarrassó

Credits:Commissioned by
Galería Arniches 26

Frame
Gris Concepte

Ceramic assistance
Trini Roig
Dani Palanques

Assistant
Maria Guerrero

Special thanks — Todolí Citrus Fundació
Vicente Todolí, Founder
Oscar Olivares Fuster, Technical Director
Cristina Giménez, Director































































































Compositions made with the citrus before being introduced in the porcelain