Josep Ciquella’s paintings have been focused on elements from everyday life such as street furniture – street lamps, chairs and stairs – which are not short of detail: mouldings, patterned paper, cracks and ridges. He isolates the shades, enigmas between formal presence and absence, which acquire a life of their own and from which the viewer can project their imagination. Influenced by Antoni Tàpies and the informalist movement, as well as North American photorealism and Pop Art, he makes the invisible become visible to reveal the poetic sediment all those more modest and banal objects. Since the eighties he lived between Barcelona and New York, where he had his studio.
2012
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