The Fundació Stämpfli–Art Contemporani presents 75 years of the creative trajectory of Peter Stämpfli with a triple exhibition that spans past, present and future.
On Saturday, 10 May at 7 p.m., the Fundació Stämpfli – Art Contemporani inaugurates “Figuración Narrativa – Empremta 2025 – 1950-2025”, three exhibitions structured into three thematic areas that represent a visual and conceptual synthesis of the major lines that have marked the artistic trajectory of Peter Stämpfli and of the Foundation that bears his name.
The exhibition, open to the public from Sunday 11 May, is conceived as a celebration of 75 years of creation by Peter Stämpfli. It occupies the three rooms of the museum, managed by the Consorci del Patrimoni de Sitges, with singular and complementary proposals that allow visitors to explore the various stages of the Swiss artist’s work and his dialogue with other prominent names in European contemporary art.
ROOM 1 – Figuració Narrativa
15 years of the Prefiguration of the Foundation’s Collection
The first room recovers the founding spirit of the Fundació Stämpfli, focusing on one of its master lines: Narrative Figuration, a movement that emerged in France in the 1960s as a critical response to consumer society and to the major political and media narratives of the time, within the social context that led to the events of May 1968.
The room commemorates the 15th anniversary of the first public presentation of the Foundation’s collection, which took place in April 2010 at the Centre Cultural Miramar. That exhibition was a turning point in the cultural project that would be consolidated with the opening of the museum in 2011.
Twelve fundamental artists of narrative figuration are represented, all of them included in the Foundation’s collection: Antonio Seguí, Bernard Rancillac, Eduardo Arroyo, Erró, Gérard Fromanger, Gianni Bertini, Henri Cueco, Jacques Monory, Jan Voss, Marco Del Re, Peter Klasen and Peter Stämpfli.
ROOM 2 – Empremta 2025
A large-format installation
The present of the art and the Foundation is concentrated in the second room with the proposal Empremta 2025, a unique work by Peter Stämpfli that covers the entire floor of the room and invites the visitor to immerse themselves in his visual language.
With this large-format installation, the artist once again explores the imprint as a plastic symbol and philosophical concept, a line that has marked much of his work, especially from the 1970s onward. The result is an immersive, physical and visual experience that offers a new perspective on the exhibition space and on the relationship between artwork and viewer.
ROOM 3 – 1950–2025. 75 years of creation
The first works of an artist in training
The third room closes the tour with an unusual look at the past: a selection of unpublished and youthful works by Peter Stämpfli, created between 1950 and 1953, when the artist was just beginning to find his path.
These are gouaches inspired by Impressionist masters, kept until now in the private sphere, and exhibited to the public for the first time. This ensemble reveals the origin of a vocation, the moment when painting ceases to be only learning and becomes a way of life.
With this triple proposal, the Fundació Stämpfli – Art Contemporani offers a transversal reading of its own history and reaffirms its commitment to the diffusion of European contemporary art.
