Daniel Blaufuks – the days are numbered

A visual artist with an extensive published bibliography and an international career, Daniel Blaufuks has developed a visual-textual diary in which he comments on current events and his life since 2018.

At MAAT, he presents the days are numbered, showing his diary for the year 2023, together with some days from the previous five years, and his entries for the first few months of 2024.

The more than 450 works include photographs, collages, and clippings with personal notes, referencing brief stories, quotes and comments.
 
According to the artist, this diary has become the task of a lifetime. By exposing his memory, his days and the days of the world intersect.

On simple landscape A4 sheets, the artist numbers the days/years as they go by; he pastes in polaroids (one or two per page) and clippings, and handwrites or stamps phrases (his own or quoted without reference) in the languages he knows best (English, German, Portuguese, French).

Here we can see the intersection of themes that we are by now accustomed to find in his work, such as the connection between time and space, and the representation of private and public memory, more precisely family, personal, historical, political and cultural memories.

There will also be a masterclass with the artist and a talk with David Campany, an international curator who has been following this artist's work for some time. Dates to be announced soon.