My Name Is Universe

Who would have thought that a work of art based on a scientific idea could burst with an authentic intellectual Big Bang and throw us into an exciting journey that carries from fine atoms to galaxies through music, philosophy, art, cinema, chemistry, poetry, theatre, dance, astrophysics, education, architecture, painting, quantum physics, religion or mathematics?

I am sure that when the artist Eugènia Balcells conceived the mural Homage to the Elements, a periodic table built with the unique and distinctive colours of each element, she did not expect it. After the ambition of totality that she had reflected in the Universe installation, Homage to the Elements had to be a note at the bottom of the page.

But the roads of art are inscrutable. In this tentacular book we squeezed the wisdom of personalities from various fields of knowledge and creation, precisely to scrutinized them.

Conversation about the book El meu nom és Univers, inspired by the work Homenatge als elements de Balcells