Mil Órbitas is a kaleidoscopic journey through Antonio Poppe’s visual and poetic universe. Gathering works that never withhold from growing and updating themselves, Mil Órbitas combines collages, drawings, calligraphy, books and sculptures that embody a universe closely linked to the exercise of meditation and to the spiritual practice of Eastern philosophies. The outcome of over one year of residency with curator Natxo Checa, the spatial organization of this exhibition mirrors the construction of the works included in it, presenting itself as a flow of associations, deployments and recurrences that produces its tributaries and welcomes its inflections. In the syncretic view he makes of the world, Antonio Poppe has in words and in images, but also in sounds, objects and in his own body, the basic materials of his expression. As in his poetry, the works now exhibited are instruments that open gaps in the veiled face of reality to offer glimpses, not exactly of a supposed “truth” of the universe, but of its mechanics and the weight the notions of movement, transformation and repetition have in it. António Poppe’s creative territory is deliberately diverse, empathic and ecumenical, made of the energy of things that cooperate with each other, and with us, in the discovery of consciousness itself.
