BELLOD COLLECTION

Collecting a work

Collecting a work of art is establishing a relationship with it.

It is not simply about owning it, but about recognizing in it something we want to preserve, contemplate and rediscover. When a work enters a collection, it ceases to be solely the artist’s work and also becomes part of the story of the person who chooses it.

For centuries, collecting has meant preserving a piece and incorporating it into a personal heritage. Bellod Collection starts from a broader idea: collecting can also mean taking an experience with you. A contemporary artwork contains research, a process, materiality and its own identity. By incorporating it into a collection, the viewer also acquires the possibility of maintaining an ongoing relationship with it: learning its history, contemplating it again, discovering its different manifestations and accompanying the development of the research around it.

The experience of the work

In some works, the experience does not end with what we see. A work may contain different ways of manifesting itself and being contemplated. In Latent Painting, this possibility arises from the relationship between matter and light. Illumination intervenes in the perception of the painting and can reveal aspects that remain hidden at first sight. The same work can offer different experiences without ceasing to be the same work.

Collecting that work also means taking that possibility with you.

The relationship between painting and light can be transferred to the collector’s space. The work can remain present on a screen, be contemplated under different forms of illumination and become part of the everyday environment. It is not necessarily about sitting down to watch a work from beginning to end, but about living with it.

The work can remain on in the space and be contemplated again at different moments. Each encounter can be different.

A work that continues

The relationship with a work does not end at the moment of its creation or at the moment of its acquisition. Living Work makes it possible to preserve and share part of the piece’s journey: sketches, studies, tests and materials connected to its creative process, helping to understand how the work became what it is. But a work’s trajectory continues. It can incorporate new experiences through the different contexts in which it is presented: new exhibitions, different forms of illumination, new installations or relationships with other works. The same work may be part of different exhibitions over time. The work does not belong to an exhibition; the exhibition is built from the works.

In this way, Living Work brings together the memory of the work and documents its trajectory, allowing the collector to know its journey and accompany the different experiences it accumulates.

Collecting in the present

Technology has opened up new possibilities for contemporary collecting. A digital work can be individually identified, limited and verifiably registered, preserving fundamental aspects of collecting: its uniqueness, identity, authenticity and belonging to a collection. Technology does not replace the work. It makes it possible to establish a more precise relationship with it and to preserve its identity and provenance digitally.

Bellod Collection

Bellod Collection was created to extend the relationship between the work and the person who chooses to incorporate it into their space. Each piece retains its identity, history, trajectory and experience. The collector can contemplate it in their own environment, learn about its process and accompany the research that continues to develop around it.

Collecting is preserving.

Collecting is experiencing.

Collecting is establishing a relationship with the work.

Return to the Shore inaugurates this Bellod Collection proposal. The exhibition brings together a group of works that, beyond this context, retain their own identity and trajectory.