In 1980, Montse Campins graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, USA. Upon her return to Barcelona, she mainly worked in advertising and fashion and specialized in portraits of people. She has worked for various advertising agencies in the world of fashion: in institutions, magazines and publishing houses. Her most recent work is in the field of author photography and reportage: the focus of her viewfinder revolves around themes of ambiguity, personal identity and landscape as being intrinsic and inherent to humankind.
Raimon Camprubí started experimenting with photography under the guidance of his father, who was a fantastic amateur photographer, and he later became a disciple of Francesc Català-Roca for almost ten years. In 1966, he set out on his own and, following in the footsteps of the master, began working for different publications of art, architecture, advertising and industrial design. Based on this work and numerous travels he embarked on, Camprubí published a collection of books on the cultural heritage and geographical characteristics of Spain. Notable among these are Montserrat and Ver Galicia, for which he was awarded the Premi Apel·les Mestres Prize from the Instituto del Libro Español in 1977 and 1982. Raimon Camprubí approached photography in the style of a photojournalist and thanks to his mastery of light, both in black and white and in colour photography, he has produced almost pictorial compositions of the social and historical context of our lands.
Pep Camps is a self-taught painter influenced by the international Pop Art current and by artists such as Gerhard Richter and Malcom Morley. He uses mass media, and his work featuring pictorial planes superimposed on a background of diaphanous images demonstrates a high degree of technical knowledge, calm reflection and a constant allusion to the Oriental world. Portraits, furniture, Buddhas and landscapes express intrinsic feelings towards nature and the passage of time, all moving different levels of the spirit.
Josep Canals Gual is an artist aligned within the abstract style. His paintings are made of multiple short and dynamic brushstrokes in a constant search for colour and movement. Since the eighties he has focused on his work as a gallery owner, as well as the promotion and dissemination of art through the creation of the Biennial of Contemporary Catalan Art in 1977.
Jordi Canudas is a sculptor and photographer who uses a process of dematerialization to reinforce the essence of objects beyond simple representation. He strips away the real world to enable us to delve into its most transcendental components – the void, darkness, silence – as an expression of the artistic gesture and the space that invites introspection and the liberation of the gaze. Through his work he decides to place art in a neutral zone amidst the hyperexpressive world that surrounds us.
Her photography is based on the narrative tradition of Duane Michals, among others, and from a wide variety of pictorial trends such as the tenebrism of Caravaggio, the surrealism of Magritte and the Dutch school of painting, to give but a few examples. She is a versatile photographer drawn to many genres and formats: from still lifes to portraits, through to fables featuring animals, documentary photography and photography of architecture and interiors. Despite this diversity, her style is recognizable and is characterized by her desire to tell stories which often travel along that fine line that separates reality from fiction.
Xavier Carbonell was a painter and draughtsman, son of the sculptor Lluís Carbonell. His first pictorial works focused on landscapes, female figures and interior compositions with constructivist influences that lead to atmospheres of crescendo decorativism, symphonic compositions drawing on the artist Gustav Klimt as a reference. His work transports us to a universe of colour and diaphanous lighting that radiates serenity, brightness and lyricism.
Carles Cardellà is a painter and draughtsman whose work has evolved from the sincere and expressive figurative language that seduced Barcelona critics such as Rafael Santos Torroella, Joan Gich and Sebastià Gasch. He introduces us to a lexicon on graphs, abstract forms and delicate chromatic combinations. As a whole, his painting displays elegance and subtlety, as a result of nuances and glazes combining different techniques – oils, pastels, inks and gouache – of refined decadent bohemia that is characteristic of painters in the School of Paris.
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