Fernando Pagola presents his 'Triple Concert' at the MUN, an exhibition that explores the construction of the image and the representation of movement.

As a sort of visual concert in three tempos, the exhibition arrives from this Tuesday to the Museo Universidad de Navarra the exhibition Triple Concertby the artist and architect Fernando Pagola (San Sebastian, 1961), based in Navarre. The exhibition, with a surprising scenographic display, in the style of the great pictorial cycles of the Modern Age, presents three different works and is the result of the author's participation in the Museum's artistic residency program Tender Puentes , in which contemporary artists are inspired by the MUN's Historical Photography Collection. 

The project, open and multidisciplinary, has been supported by the company VDR and José Ignacio Labiano and Gotzon B. Arcocha in memory of Mrs. Blanca Ilundain Baines. In the presentation to the media he was accompanied by Jaime García del Barrio, director of Museo Universidad de Navarra. 

In Triple Concert, Pagola explores the construction of the image, the representation of movement and the deconstruction of figure and color. As the artist explains, the title of the exhibition is a metaphor: "There are three themes that I have always been shuffling within my work and that is why I wanted to present them here. They are three instruments that build a melody in which I move in my work". 

The first of these works is Gilgamesh Enkidu - Energetic Allegroa large mural with a surface area of nearly 600 square meters that covers the entire 90 linear meters of the perimeter of room 0 of the Museum. 

The seed of this work is in a commission from the writer Andrés Barba to illustrate a text about the struggle, in addition to revisiting from another perspective the poem of Gilgamesh (2,500-2000 BC), a work of epic literature of Sumerian origin. "As a metaphor, I am very interested in the struggle that human beings go through to resolve issues. This becomes a dance, a kind of homage. There are many readings of this piece, which integrates painting, photography, dance and literature, so the themes are very open."

Also presented is Proyecto Frankfurter - Andante espressivo, arranged in a walkway in the central part of the room and starting from the pages of this German newspaper. This special arrangement not only allows the viewer to walk among the images, but also respects the space of the surrounding mural.

 "This is probably the most important cultural newspaper in Europe, where they have always taken exquisite care in typography and images. It is a medium that I have used a lot and for years there has been a metamorphosis of all the work done with it. What is presented in this exhibition is the last stage of this process in which I mix the painting with the images, to which I eliminate the text and, therefore, decontextualize them. They then become a kind of collage," explains the author.

Finally, Diary - Grazioso e giocoso collects the diaries and journals used by the artist over the years, which function as a sort of artistic laboratory. "In them I write down all the records of my life: texts, notes, drawings and paintings. Another world is generated, in which I let the spectator enter, but I don't give him any other keys than the ones he wants to use", says the artist. This latest work is located next to the Museum's North Patio, on the ground floor.

In Pagola's words, "the influence that the Museo Universidad de Navarra Collectionhas had on this work is based on the idea of how the image of modernity or contemporaneity is constructed. Both in the newspapers and in the photographic images I have used, what interests me is to delve into this idea of how photographers have constructed the current image".

Thus, the exhibition seeks to establish and identify the common thread of his evolution as an artist, with links that unite his work based on very different strategies and supports, relating the ambiguity of representation and the mechanisms for its interpretation.