Marcos Cárdenas is a painter of works with a figurative topic whose protagonists are subjects, architectures or fragments of nature that are familiar to us. In other words, everyday situations and attitudes, enveloped in an atmosphere of serene contemplation and silence. Intense light and an imperceptible line composed of a dense material layer that leaves no trace are trademark elements of his work. He has garnered several awards and his work features in prominent private collections.
Human faces, clenched hands, inscriptions and calligraphies are unified in a seemingly chaotic way in the artwork by Armand Cardona, a self-taught painter and draughtsman. His figurative pieces were often developed from the same theme and became a chronicle of our times thanks to his acerbic and critical vision of society. His black and sinuous strokes underline his own particular iconography, which draws on influences as diverse as Romanesque altarpiece painting and mass media. Armand Cardona exhibited his work in many countries such as Italy, Germany, France and the USA, and was awarded the Ynglada-Guillot Prize in 1971.
Voluptuous, graceful figures that appeal to be seen, energetic colours that bring buried feelings to life and feel the need to burst forth from their anonymity. Elisa Caro’s painting is an instrument that cries out for immediate change and opens our eyes within a society blinded by absurdity. Her representations endow the viewer with an existential consciousness clouded by dissatisfaction, insecurity and human weaknesses.
Tom Carr is a sculptor and painter, considered to be one of the most active artists in carrying out installations and architectural assemblages in the eighties. He is interested in concepts of space-time, movement and three-dimensional qualities, which revolve around the minimalist precept of expression in which the influence of the Russian constructivist school is clearly evident. Twisted fragments of a circular reality that evoke an infinite lyricism; imposing simple and symbolic forms that are segmented and elongated, and spiral volumes… all deform the corporeal mass in improbable curvatures to the point of experimenting with the inflection of the most inner dialogue. An attempt at finding a balance between concept and form.
Martín Carral is a self-taught painter of portraits, bullfighting scenes and urban visions laden with expressionism, energetic colours and dense textures that feature in his first representations up until the eighties. Later on, the colours are attenuated within compositions that explore the rapid, calligraphic stroke and pointillism and dripping. His career changed direction in the early nineties towards the abstraction, with blurred images that allude to novelistic literature.
Francesc d’Asís Casademont was a Catalan painter associated with the Cercle Maillol, which was presided over by Josep Maria de Sucre and included other artists such as Charles Collet from whom Casademont learnt sculpture, ceramics, enamel and engraving. He also created book illustrations. His paintings of landscapes in Girona, for example of Cadaqués, and of Ibiza, are arranged compositions of placid colours and misty contours. In 1994 the Generalitat de Catalunya awarded him the Creu de Sant Jordi for his pedagogical work related to art and for his dissemination of Empordà landscapes around the world.
David Casals Moreno is one of the greatest exponents of new contemporary realism. Without renouncing the abstract painting of the previous century, his vision is based on an innovative figuration that enriches the history of art as a testimony to the human footprint. Thus, Casals’ work presents natural and landscape scenes, occasionally altered by human action, thereby endowing the essence of the work with an atmosphere of solitude and calm as an inexhaustible interpretative source of a perennial theme.
Albert Casañé traces sinuous iron lines on the air; perforated sculptures in which shadows flow within the immensity of the space. Three-dimensionality as a receptacle of fragility yet also of consistency, simple forms carrying a complex message that swaddles a reflection on the mystery and power of creation. Clouds that cry, lightweight structures with a sweet fragility like totemic strainers that appropriate the physical laws of gravity and take us towards infinity beyond a pure visual pleasure.
Esteve Casanoves understands sculpture, painting, photography and video as a constellation of meanings. His world is a space of convergences: destruction-construction, movement-stillness and permutation-stability. Rhythmic and poetic art that, far removed from figurative representation, is an abstract delirium of reason. He researches through textures, material consistency and spaces, and within this work plasticity is transformed into vitality and energy. It is a labyrinthine work, a framework of tracks and intersections that create for the viewer the pleasure of getting lost and finding the path once again.
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