The Fundació Stämpfli and the Consorci del Patrimoni de Sitges have launched a collaboration program that will allow various contemporary artworks from the Foundation’s collection to be shown temporarily in the Cau Ferrat and Maricel museums. The program is called El visitant and opens on May 27, with the transfer of the piece Autoretrat amb gavardina (1963), by Peter Stämpfli, to the Cau.

El visitant aims to encourage dialogue between pieces from different styles and periods. The program begins with the journey of an artwork from the early career of Peter Stämpfli, in his pop art period, to the Cau Ferrat, to be placed beside another famous portrait: the one painted jointly by Santiago Rusiñol and Ramon Casas in 1890 in Cerdanya, titled Retratant-se.

This is the first artwork from the Fundació Stämpfli collection that will be shown in other local museums. Other works will follow, also for three-month periods, both at the Cau Ferrat and at the Museu de Maricel and, once it reopens, at the Museu Romàntic – Can Llopis. The transfers will always be temporary for three months.

At the same time, this initiative makes it possible to showcase works from the Fundació Stämpfli collection in the main museums of the town, which are also those that attract the most visitors. In this way, the Foundation’s collection gains projection and visibility.
Autoretrat amb gavardina (1963) belongs to the period between 1963 and 1970 in which Stämpfli painted a series of works conceived as a dictionary of gestures and trivial everyday objects from urban life.

The work reflects the concern of young artists of the 1960s to move beyond post-war abstract painting and to create a new figuration connected to daily life, popular culture, and the new visual communication languages such as advertising, comics, or cinema.
Autoretrat amb gavardina is also featured in the Peça del Mes of May, on Friday the 27th, at 6 pm in the Saló d’Or of the Palau de Maricel.