Joan Company - website of the artist CRESPI I ALEMANY

Art is almost as ancient as man himself. Music appears in the history of humanity at the same time as the fine arts and, while
both have gone their own ways and paths, they have also been complementary throughout the centuries: from Egyptian art,
Greek ceramics, especially during the Romanesque period when music invades sculptured figures even to the present day….
Santa Margalida’s painter Guillem Crespí i Alemany presents us a painting and sculpture exhibit of a musical theme within a
space that serves us as a portal and a juncture between the fine arts and music, as a visual and auditory prelude that precedes
the concerts of the Baleares Symphony Orchestra.
One of the first examples of iconography of musical angels in western art is observed in the Glory Entrance of Santiago Cathedral
- this year the site of Xacobeo 2010 - where Master Mateo (1188) carved a wonderful instrumental collection of fiddle,
harps, zithers, etc. Later on, in Mallorca, in Portal de los Apóstoles or El Mirador de la Seu, we can also find and contemplate a
large group of instrumental angels (with cleats, violas, Gothic zithers…), which evidences the eternal attraction of the arts.
Guillem Crespí invites us to enjoy a selection from the universe of musical instruments (chordophones, aerophones, idiophones…)
through painting - canvas and paper - and sculpture - in iron -: curving lines, chromatisms, variations, tones
and colours give life to sonorous objects that show, as he believes, that the melding between both artistic disciplines
has always existed and always will.
The theory of the relationship between sound and colour is natural: in painting terms like tones (dull, lively, strong) are
used, while in the language of music we speak of chromatic, coloratura… Among musicians, the commonest example
of synaesthesia is that which relates certain colours to the timbre of certain instruments. There are even writers who
have distinguished the colours of some composers: the music of Mozart is blue, that of Chopin is green, that of Wagner
is luminous with changing colours.
All this can be found by viewing and listening to the work of Crespí i Alemany.

Joan Company i Florit
Director fundador de la Coral Universitat de les Illes Balears
Director artístic del Coro de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia