Antoni Bernad (Barcelona, 1944) is a Barcelona photographer trained in the fine arts, whose career began in drawing and collaborating with publications in the areas of style and fashion.
In the mid-1960s he began to dedicate himself fully to photography, and settled in Paris. His work was published in prestigious magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Vanity Fair and Marie Claire. While at first he focused his career on advertising, fashion and design, Bernad has proved to have an artistic gaze that is expressively and aesthetically personal, something that has merited the presence of his work in exhibitions at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, the Reina Sofía de Madrid or, more recently, the Museu Palau Solterra of the Fundació Vila Casas.
Bernad’s personal mark of identity, characterised as it is by an ongoing dialogue between light and shadows, makes it possible to discover the soul of the characters portrayed, through an exercise of unveiling in a process charged with a-temporality, commemorating its creative essence.
The photographs appearing in this exhibition are part of the larger body of work known as Catalans. Portraits, a set of 200 photos taken from the 1970s to the 1980s of the past century. Furthermore, this exhibition is part of Itiner’Art, a programme of the Fundació Vila Casas emerged with the idea of offering creators greater visibility, given their significant involvement in the narration of the recent history of Catalan art.
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