Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity

Notes on Creativity was the first major art exhibition for Ferran Adrià, emphasizing the role of drawing, language and symbol in his quest for new gustatory experiences.

For over 20 years, Adrià oversaw Spain’s most famous destination-restaurant, elBulli. There he created an innovative multi-sensory vocabulary and structure that expanded the ways in which we encounter, consider and judge our relationship to food and art.

Through sketches, models and diagrams Notes on Creativity charts the origins of Adrià’s intellectual and philosophical ideas about gastronomy that have forever changed how we understand food. New York Times critic Roberta Smith, writing about Notes on Creativity, likened the chef to a culinary Salvador Dali: “Visually striking, Adrià and his collaborators thwarted expectations, confused the senses and tickled the mind with their transformations and disguises.” As one of the most important avant-garde chefs of the twenty-first century, Adrià pushes culinary boundaries with knowledge and wit, transforming the craft of cuisine into an art form all its own.