In the Sea of ​​Sorolla with Manuel Vicent

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Image courtesy of Palau Martorell.

Palau Martorell presents one of the largest exhibitions dedicated to Joaquín Sorolla in Barcelona featuring 86 masterpieces by the Valencian painter. In the Sea of ​​Sorolla with Manuel Vicent offers a unique exhibition approach in which the Valencian writer Manuel Vicent curates a literary selection based on the work of Joaquín Sorolla, creating an unusual dialogue between painting and literature.

Viewers are invited to immerse themselves in the work of Sorolla through the eyes of Vicent, with an exhibition that is both poetic and visual. The exhibition explores the existence of an aesthetic and moral attitude toward the sea, an attitude that, to a certain extent, both artists, Sorolla and Vicent, share.

Through a carefully curated selection of paintings from the Sorolla Museum collection, Manuel Vicent constructs a visual journey through the representation of the sea and its scenes in Sorolla's work. At the same time, using these paintings, the writer weaves a narrative—part biographical, part literary and part aesthetic—about Sorolla's painting, about the Mediterranean, about its people, and about himself and his relationship with the sea.

Vicent is described by critics as “the Sorolla of Spanish literature.” His writing is characterized by a virtuosic, incisive style, full of beauty and realism. The writer employs a luminous and sensual prose, rich in nuance, representing the world through the experience of the senses. As with Sorolla, it is difficult to grasp the scope of his literature without considering the Mediterranean and the Levant, its people and landscapes, as the context in which it unfolds. In both creators, their Mediterranean roots are a defining feature of their literary identity.

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