Trained in Fine Arts and Photography in Florence, Michael Banks develops a work in which the forms, colour and composition are its primary elements. From the purest abstraction and without any need to be connected to objective reality, his photographs reflect and exteriorize a state of introspection; compositions that dialogue with the surrounding space and offer new perceptive possibilities to establish harmonious relationships. His photographs have led him to collaborate with architects, interior and industrial designers.
Josep Baques’ first pictorial works, with great chromaticism and compositional studies, reflect the world of dreams and surrealist fables. He subsequently researched and experimented in other creative languages (drawing, sculpture, engraving and photography). In 1956, he set up his own graphic design company and later on taught at Escola Massana and Escola Oficial de Publicitat in Barcelona. He took part in the founding of the first association of graphic design professionals in Spain entitled Grafistes Agrupació FAD.
Lluís Barba studied at Escola de la Llotja and Escola Massana in Barcelona. He is a multidisciplinary artist whose works have been exhibited in many cities across Europe, the USA, Latin America, Canada and Japan. Throughout his career he has experimented with different techniques and materials that have formally varied his creations but his intentions have always remained the same, conveying a powerful social criticism of a system that alienates people and converts them into prototypes of behaviour and in an overtly consumerist society.
Joan Barbarà was an engraver, painter and draughtsman, who is considered to be one of the best international experts in engraving technique. In 1945 he set up his own workshop and he collaborated with renowned artists in the contemporary European avant-garde such as Victor Vasarely, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Antoni Tàpies. In addition to his extensive and multifaceted production of engravings, in which we can see great mastery and sensitivity, to a lesser extent he also cultivated a Braque-style painting, predominantly on the theme of still lifes.
Enrique Bargunyó, known artistically as Enrique Barro, graduated in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona and is a multidisciplinary artist who has focused his practice on painting, drawing and sculpture. He is notable for his versatility in the use of basic materials and tools which he makes the most of, you could say recycling, thus transforming a single body into many parts thereby achieving an almost infinite number of forms, colours and textures. In this way he takes a tool such as a pencil and makes use of both the wood chippings resulting from when it is sharpened – to make sculptures and landscapes in two dimensions – and the chromatic residue arising from this very same action, to mark new textures and collages of abstract and isolated bodies. The result, in whichever discipline it may be, transports us to new microcosms in which the colours and forms invite the purest and most primary contemplation, of the kind that expects nothing in return, only the observer’s own enjoyment when facing the new and fantastical formation of the most everyday objects, thus appreciating the fragile beauty that is concealed in the smallest parts that make up our big world.
In each of his works, Jaume Barrera creates a concept of history, of evolution as a continuous line that endows his pictorial work with the significance of a cultural metaphor. He is a painter in the traditional genre, painting landscapes and nature as a way of experimenting with the chromaticism, light, external surface and internal structure in search of a magical beauty and as a journey towards what is endless. He usually works with consecutive series, surfaces that play with the double aspect: image and reality, the representation and what is represented.
Sergey Barskov graduated in architecture and theatre art and soon began working early on in Russian urban and republican art. Although he trained in Eastern Europe, he has travelled around the whole continent and spent long periods in our country. Enchanted by the Mediterranean, different foundations in Barcelona feature a great deal of his work, in which delicate and meticulous urban landscapes immortalize the city’s most emblematic skyscrapers, port and communication routes.
Rafael Bartolozzi began his career working with Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, a connection that lasted from 1965 to 1983. Throughout the sixties and seventies, he focused his work on neo-figuration and was one of the most important representatives of pop art in Spain. From the eighties he carried out a personal interpretation of the Italian trans-avant-garde and other contemporary pictorial movements towards a more abstract style. Later in his life, he achieved his own style, resulting in an original amalgam of colours, textures and graphics.
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