Antoni Abad is a multidisciplinary artist who initially dedicated himself to drawing, painting and sculpture from a conceptual perspective. From the mid-nineties, he began working with new technologies, such as video installation, understood as a narrative in which the object is not static but rather something that transforms itself. His works focus on the observation of, and reflection on, a consumer society that remains lethargic towards certain sectors of the human collective. As a result of these approaches, it is worth highlighting his net.art works, made in the early 2000s, in which the artist gives a voice and visibility to different collectives who do not get widely covered in the mainstream media. In 1999, he won the ARCO Electrónico prize, and his was the first net.art work to be sold in Spain.
Cesc Abad is a self-taught and multidisciplinary artist who draws on the postulates from the best Catalan artists, as well as the most renowned international artists. His artworks are directly related to nature, especially the landscape in the Catalan Pyrenees, and although they are figurative, they are all endowed with a deep conceptual sense that goes beyond the limits of utopia to delve into a dystopian world.
His ease in dealing with different disciplines enables him to work with ceramics in a highly personal and identifiable way. He manages to create a fusion of painting and sculpture to reflect on the relationship between humankind and nature and also on its relationship with passions, fears and hopes.
Francesc Abad delves into the art world through painting, and achieves the maximum simplification of forms, colours and graphics within the current known as minimalist. He is a multidisciplinary artist who is concerned about the fragility of memory and translates this reflection into images that revive and revitalize what is forgotten. Each of Francesc Abad’s works gives corpus to language, thus harmonizing art and thought in a utopian desire to transform reality. In 2004, his work Camp de la Bota was awarded the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona d’Arts Plàstiques.
Ignasi Aballí belongs to a generation of Catalan artists (along with Pep Agut and Mabel Palacín) who, in the nineties, recuperated conceptual aesthetics, reflections on the creative process and the political nature of art. His artwork integrates everyday life into artistic conception, the passage of time and its traces, as well as the relationship between humanity and its contemporary world. He questions the boundaries between the physical-imagined-represented space; the languid line that separates reality-fiction, presence-absence, materiality-volatility, etc.
Joan Abelló was a self-taught and empirical painter who drew from a heterogenous set of artistic perspectives. A disciple of Pere Pruna, he specialized in the techniques of mural and engraving. In the mid-forties, he evolved towards an impressionist tendency, which later on led to explosive colours using vigorous brushstrokes. In the latter years of Joan Abelló’s career, his most distinctive style focused on a predominantly material, informalist and expressionist approach, without neglecting figuration.
Joan Abras is a multifaceted artist: sculptor, draughtsman, painter, magnificent ceramicist and jewellery designer. He studied at the local ceramics school and embarked on his artistic career creating murals using ceramics and panels for the decoration of façades. As a sculptor, he stylizes volumes and outlines elliptical rhythms with an impeccable manipulation of the material. Female figures drawing on a surrealist inspiration and formal synthesis, in order to transmute reality in search of a plastic poetry.
A multidisciplinary artist, Laia Abril’s work is based on research to explore themes related to gender – such as abortion, menstruation and rape – through the use of photography, text, video and sound. She observes her surroundings and poetically translates the stories she encounters into images in order to give visibility to complex realities, in an exercise that is both artistic and activist. Her work has garnered recognition internationally, such as the Hood Medal (2019) and Honorary Fellowship (2022) from the Royal Photography Society in London, and recently the Premio Nacional de Fotografía from the Spanish Ministry of Culture (2023).
Photograph by the artist: © Ana Lefaux Paris.
After working in advertising in Mexico, María María Acha-Kutscher moved to Madrid, where she currently lives and where she took her first steps in the world of art and feminist militancy. Using multiple modes of expression such as drawing, photography and archive images the artist produces long research pieces dealing with gender discrimination. Her works reflect on issues such as the cultural construction of femininity, the participation of women in global conflicts, and femicide. Putting the patriarchal system under the microscope, her work becomes not only an instrument for political struggle but also a testament to the concerns and demands of today's feminist movements.
We need to appreciate Pep Admetlla’s sculptural work in relation to an ephemeral architecture drawing on compositional elements that the artist incorporates and which, at the end of the creative process, are transformed into walkable sculptures. These are timeless works that become spaces of interaction, whereby the artist puts into play what he calls dissections, such as memory, intuition, sensitivity, experience, etc. The artwork is totally integrated into the space. In 2001, he was selected for the Premis FAD d’Arquitectura in the Ephemeral Spaces category with his walkable sculptures project.
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