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The collection is the point of convergence where the plural vision of the collector Antoni Vila Casas meets contemporary art. It is a map of movements and decisions to accept particular works that embrace different ideologies and creative languages. Encompassing the period between the 1960’s and the present, with a few previous exceptions, a number of currents of pictorial and sculptural creation in Catalonia are displayed. Only the photography collection is within an international framework.





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DISCIPLINE:  
Joan Brossa
Barcelona, 1919 - 1998

Although Joan Brossa i Cuervo defines himself as a poet, in his work the word, image, sound and dramaturgy all take shape in a fourth dimension inherited from the concept of total art, particularly associated with Richard Wagner. Understood as a synthesis of all the poetic, visual, musical and performing arts, its long legacy extends to literary, performing, theatrical or visual poetry, object and urban poems, film scripts, opera libretti and other sound texts, prose, poster design, installations and art books. In his early years he worked with Joan Ponç on the creation of the magazine Algol; its affinity with the world of plastic art led to the involvement of other artists, such as Moisès Villèlia, Frederic Amat, Perejaume and Eduardo Chillida.




Joan Brotat
Barcelona, 1920 - 1990

As a young man, Joan Brotat i Vilanova was conscripted to serve in the Lleva del Biberó and fought in the Battle of the Ebro as a stretcher bearer for the Republican side. His parents, artisan shoemakers in the Santa Caterina neighbourhood in Barcelona, had to close down their premises in the early post-Civil War years and they decided to open a picture framing business, where Joan worked. This led him to go on to study courses oriented towards the applied arts and he ended up getting into painting. After starting out in Informalism and experimenting with collage, Brotat then defined a very personal style, marked by a certain primitivism and clearly inspired by Catalan Romanesque art.  Josep Maria de Sucre discovered his paintings and introduced him to the contemporary artistic circles. Later on, Eugeni d’Ors included him in the X Salón de los Once in Madrid in 1953. From then on, his career developed, reaching its peak in the sixties, without ever abandoning his personal style.




Pablo Bruera
Montevideo, 1972

Aware of the state of the world, Pablo Bruera’s sculpture is an evocation of reality. Based on kinetics and cubism, he uses industrial materials – those that represent technological progress and all the concepts of routine and consumerism that we face – which he turns into forms rooted in nature. He thereby contributes to a social awareness of the transformation of resources and the multiple readings that each person can make of the situation thanks to a direct interaction with the artwork. The artist designs his works to be manipulated and perceived, thus bringing the artistic act closer to everyone so that they can feel the impulse of participating in this worldwide movement.




J. Budesca
Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, 1930

Joaquim Budesca Català is a painter, draughtsman and engraver. He is self-taught and, as a member of the Agrupació d’Aquarel·listes de Catalunya, has received awards for his watercolour painting. He creates landscapes and seascapes with a rich and vibrant chromatism. In his oil paintings he endows solemnity to the direct, spontaneous and broad brushstrokes. He makes a meticulous study of colour, of the material structures as an exaltation to nature dominated by the Mediterranean light. Schematic landscapes arranged in multiple spots, as a result of an elaborated process of abstraction and conceptualization.




Juan Bufill
Barcelona, 1955

Juan Bufill Soler has worked in numerous disciplines such as poetry, experimental art cinema and essays, as well as writing scripts for comics and television, curating exhibitions and as a photography critic. As a photographer he captures fleeting moments in invisible time through the materialization of paths and currents of light that become triggers for new realities.




J.M. Cabané
Barcelona, 1963




Xicu Cabanyes
Serinyà, Girona, 1945




Lita Cabellut
Sarinyena, Osca, 1961




Miguel Cabezas
Irún, Guipúscoa, 1975






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