Big opening of 'Poetic island cartographies' at Joncs

Last Sunday, June 28, 2026, the opening of the exhibition 'Poetic Island Cartographies' was held in the Els Joncs gastronomic space, in Banyoles. The first opening of an exhibition of the INSULAE MAPS project was attended by more than fifty people, including family, friends, artists and diners who passed by between 6 and 9 p.m.

Attendees were able to enjoy the 11 cartographies that make up the fourth exhibition of the series 'Poetic Island Cartographies' after the University of Girona, the La Parra restaurant and the Taula Petita wine store. The most commented pieces were 'Banyoles around the world', which is a toponymic ode to the town of Banyoles, as well as 'Espriu', one of the new pieces of 2026, which pays homage to Sinera's cementery poem where the game proposed by Salvador Espriu of writing place names backwards is followed. 'Fútbol loco' and 'Porno' generated debate and humor: one because of the selection of footballers before the Messi-Cristiano Ronaldo era and the other because of the spicy theme. In the case of 'Fútbol loco', next to the piece was the ball that served as the origin of the cartography. Finally, 'Vomitada de insults y tacos' also made the audience laugh. The other pieces in the exhibition are 'Lichtenstein explosions', a tour of art that includes the place names of Escribà and Barraca, present yesterday at the inauguration; 'Music', dedicated to the musical tastes of generation X alternative banyolina; 'Splash', a history of swimming; 'Video games', a review of the appearance of this new leisure alternative for adolescence; 'Gironation: Expats', which deals with this phenomenon in the Gironin regions; and 'Symbols and signs', an experiment with punctuation marks and typographic symbols inspired by current events in Cuba.

The inauguration also featured three copies of the magazine Temperatura in which INSULAE collaborates and several books on imaginary cartography such as 'Atlas of the Imaginary Islands' and 'Literary Maps', both by Huw Lewis-Jones; 'The map as art' by Katharine Harmon; 'Mappa Insulae' by the French collective Stevenson; 'The History of Maps' by Gerald Roe Crone; or the novels Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island by Daniel Dafoe and Robert Louis Stevenson respectively, which delighted the most erudite.

As a reminder, the prints were produced at 'La Impresión Fine Art', a studio specialized in this field, and the frames were purchased from La Rebotiga, that recycled them. Both establishments are located in the town of Banyoles. With these actions, INSULAE kills two birds with one shot, boosting local businesses and the circular economy.