BARCELONA.- The digital version of all the edited numbers of the magazine "Dau al Set", the media outlet of the avante-garde movement with the same name is presented for the first time in an exhibition dedicated to this generation of artists, included are works by Tapies, Cuixart, Tharrats, Brossa and Joan Ponç.

The exhibition, which can be seen at the Fran Daurel Foundation in Barcelona until April 26, will then travel to Santander, Cuenca, Zaragoza and Madrid.

Through this digital version, specialists can now research the edited numbers of the magazine that appeared between 1948 and 1952.

In the months of September-October of 1948 the first number of the magazine was published that gave the name to the group, "Dau al Set", which was an offspring of the magazine titled "Algol", which was only published once.

The founding members were poet Joan Brossa, responsible for the name of the group and the magazine, philosopher and art critic Arnau Puig and painters Joan Ponç, head of the magazine; Antoni Tapies, Modest Cuixart and Joan-Josep Tharrats, editor and printer of the magazine.

The main novelty in relation to previous exhibitions on this movement is the proposal of inclusion to the group of Juan Eduardo Cirlot, an option taken by the curator, Concepcion Gomez.

The group was first assigned to the Dada movement, to the Group that navigated in hyperrealism, Surrealism and existensialism until it converged into its own style, it excluded itself from the cultural atmosphere of the Franco regime and at the same time had pretensions to make the Catalan society into a more dynamic one.

The diversity of all these artists, very young at that time it appears, according to Concepcion Gomez, shows a nexus that lies in the Surrealist expression of their works of art.

The exhibition is structured on an artistic part composed by forty paintings and drawings signed by Tapies, Cuixart, Tharrats and Ponç.

Some of the works of art on view are: "Londres hindu" (1949), "Los ojos del follaje" (1949), by Tapies; "Homenaje a Gaudi" (1951) and "Homenaje a Paul Klee" (1951), by Tharrats; a Surrealist blue landscape "Sin título" (1950) and "Carnaval" (1949) by Joan Ponç; and "Tríptico" (1950), by Cuixart.

Even though the members of the "Dau al Set" had started to collaborate in 1946, their most creative period concentrated between 1948 and 1951, a time in which they participated in several exhibitions.

The members of "Dau al Set" only exhibited together on two occasions: in 1949, at the Instituto Frances de Barcelona (French Institute in Barcelona), and the Sala Caralt de Barcelona (Caralt Hall), in October of 1951.

The group, says the curator, felt itself as an heir to the Surrealist movement.