To listen to gallery owner Carles Taché is to come closer to his passion for the art world. He believes that “art is the great patrimony of humanity,” a reflection that could be seen last Thursday, June 13, when Taché, accompanied by art market analyst Llucià Homs, led an interesting conversation on art and censorship from the gallerist’s point of view.
Llucià Homs is one of those who thinks that “censorship never rests”; and following the thread, Carles Taché, said that the obligation of the gallery owner is to protect the artist in the face of the various situations of censorship. In Taché’s opinion, “when censorship is external, you have more tools to fight, but when it is internal, it is devastating”. For the gallery owner, art is an unprotected world, and he believes that the artist has always been an innocent character, even though, as far as the relationship with artists is concerned, he says that “the relationship between the art dealer and the artist is like an opera”.
Precisely one of the artists represented by Carles Taché was Jordi Benito, whose collection that nourishes the Museum of Forbidden Art has the Suite Carmona, a piece that was censored at Arco in 1994.
With this episode experienced at Arco, Taché felt unprotected by the fair: “Arco should be an embassy, I found it insulting what happened”. That’s why he tried to protect the artist, leaving a Polaroid photo of the piece hanging on the wall after the piece was seized.
“Art is the materialization of the artist’s spirit, with art he seeks control. Art that wants to provoke seems to me to be pure commerce. I understand the storeowners, there are galleries and there are storeowners, and there are also works that are deceptions”, Carles Taché affirms.
These and many other reflections can be retrieved from the museum’s YouTube channel: