Biography

Self-taught, he exhibited in 1967 at the Cercle de Sant Lluc, and, following a spectacular launch, exhibited again in Barcelona (1969, Sala Gaspar) and the same year in Toronto. His triple exhibition in Barcelona in 1980 established him at certain levels as a young alternative to the monopoly of the historical Catalan avant-garde. He also exhibited in South Africa (1970), Cologne (1972 and 1980), Mexico (1974), Palma (1976 and 1983), New York (1977 and 1981), Ibiza (1979), Paris (1982), Girona (1982), Alicante (1982), Madrid (1983 and 1985), Brussels (1983 and 1986), London (1985), and Luxembourg (1986).

Among his later exhibitions, it is worth mentioning those at the Seville Expo (1992), Manresa (1998), Cologne (2001, UNTER DM 2000), and Berlin (2003, “Arbeiten auf Papier”). He has also grouped his exhibitions into series or cycles, including “Pinturas” (1980-82), “Figura y fondo” (1986), “Una història natural” (1998), “365 dies” (1999-2000), “Gran format” (2004-06), “Símptomes i malalties” (2006), “Patrimoni i memòria” (2007), and “Fauna i flora” (2008).

An admirer and follower of Antoni Tàpies in his early career, he typically combines imprints or the collage of real elements with precise signs that seek a plastic lyricism. He has also expressed himself through environments and has cultivated poster design and the design of book and record covers. Initially focused on compositions with a marked tendency towards symmetry, he later evolved towards more organic forms with a less explicit order. His work addresses the relationship between man, nature, ecology, urban life, and new technologies. The material treatment he gives to the supports is as important as the chromatic rigidity, which presents a wide variety of nuances.

Author of articles and writings on art in the media, his connection to the literary world is noteworthy: he collaborated with some members of the young poetry movement of the seventies and eighties (Alicates, 1978) and, among others, illustrated the edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories (2004) published by Cercle de Lectors, a work awarded by the Ministry of Education as the best edited book, and a bibliophile edition published by Enciclopèdia Catalana with the title of Sinera (2012), which gathers all of Salvador Espriu’s texts that directly refer to the mythical locality around which this poet articulates much of his work. For the same publisher, he published Salveu-me la mirada in 2016, a work of similar characteristics based on poems by Miquel Martí i Pol.

He has been distinguished, among others, with the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres decoration from the French Government (1996), the second prize from the Ministry of Culture (2003), and the Award of Excellence from the Society for New Design of New York (1997).

1948
Barcelona