He studied photography at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Westminster University in London, and has dedicated a large part of his career to documenting the two passions from his youth: punk music culture and skateboarding. Beyond that, he has also found inspiration and creativity in more thematic and open series. His images are usually in black and white and are full of life experiences, with a good dose of reality whilst always being fully subjective.
The constant search for occultism steeped in Freudian psychoanalytical thought positions Joan Ponç as one of the national greats of the surrealist school. Influenced by his friendship with Josep Vicenç Foix and Joan Brossa, his early paintings reflect a schematic primitivism where anthropomorphic figures coexist with the vegetable, transporting us to a fantasy world of dreams and the subconscious. Ponç was founder of the first avant-garde magazine Algol and the Dau al Set group, together with Modest Cuixart, Antoni Tàpies, Joan Josep Tharrats, Joan Brossa, Arnau Puig and the critic Juan Eduardo Cirlot. In 1965 he was awarded the Grand Prize for Drawing at the 7th Sao Paulo Biennial for his series Suite pájaros.
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