Biography

He studied art history and, at the same time, practiced painting and drawing at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc. He began exhibiting in the 1970s. During these years, he also frequented Joan Brossa and J.V. Foix, who influenced him, as did Jacint Verdaguer, with whom he shares a telluric vision of the intimate interrelationship between humanity and the surrounding nature—a perspective that has led him to emphasize his own roots, especially Catalan culture and the Montnegre region. His reflection on the landscape has also led him to consider artifice within the concepts of both the artwork and nature, as well as their uncertain boundaries.

His visual and poetic works are indissolubly linked. From painting, he has moved into other disciplines such as photography, video, installation, as well as poetry and essays. In 1999, he painted the ceiling medallions in the auditorium of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, and that same year he held the exhibition “Deixar de fer una exposició” at MACBA, a retrospective of his artistic career to date. In 2005, he exhibited at the Art 36 Basel fair and completed the project “Amagar-se” in Sajazarra (La Rioja), where he blended video, photography, text, and performance, questioning the excessive presence of the author and how to avoid it in a world saturated with images.

1957
Sant Pol de Mar