Miquel Barceló at the Fondation Jan Michalski 'Autofictions' . (This link opens in a new tab).

The book as aesthetic object and reading as a visual theme are seen throughout the art since the Middle Ages. As the attribute of human figures identifying them as saint, scholar, or reader, the book becomes an image of mental activity and knowledge, the possibility of an openness to the world and the desire to experience it. Miquel Barceló (*1957, Felanitx) has explored the plasticity of books from the very start of his career; along with plants and animals, they are central to his art. But the artist is doing more than simply looking to reference a particular literary source, he aims to represent the things that fuel books, what constitutes them, what connects them with life.