FERRAN ADRIÀ: NOTES ON CREATIVITY

An overview of elBulli’s creative process through the drawings that Ferran Adrià made to conceive his creations, showing how they were then turned into a reality; a predecessor to Auditing the Creative Process. The exhibition also includes a unique vision into the first moments in the history of cooking, emphasising the role of drawing in Ferran Adrià’s quest to understand creativity. This demonstrates how drawing can be used as a philosophical tool to organise and transmit knowledge and meaning, as well as a physical object used to synthesise more than twenty years of innovation in the kitchen.

Curated by Brett Litman, the exhibition premiered in January 2014 at the prestigious The Drawing Center in New York, a compact museum located in a nineteenth-century industrial building in the heart of Soho. The museum is dedicated to the direct dialogue that drawing has with other disciplines (from architecture to science).

Subsequently, the exhibition travelled to art museums located all around the United States (September 2014 to January 2016) and finished its lengthy tour at the Marres House for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht, the Netherlands, from March to June 2016.