José Ramón Bas is a self-taught photographer who is interested in new forms of expression. He uses photography to document his travels as well as a source of interpretation of his memory, given that, once the trip is over, it becomes the tool which serves as the memory. An image is something indivisible, innate, a reminiscence of spontaneity, which the artist manipulates through painting, writing and reframing. He has received many awards, both nationally and internationally.
Toni Batllori is a renowned illustrator and cartoonist creating critical, satirical comic strips, who worked with many magazines and national newspapers, notably La Vanguardia, Avui and the magazine El Jueves. His work garnered many awards, such as the Premi Internacional d’Humor Gat Perich 2004. His confident and spontaneous stroke, using a concise and expressive line, seeks more in the movement than in the detail the vivacity of the public and political figures who appear in his comic strips and graphic humour. The artist also developed other disciplines such as photography, painting and sculpture, through which he incorporated part of his versatile, natural artistic language endowing the space and materials an aura of movement and prolongation, of life through the pure lines that its own movement creates.
Her artistic career began at the turn of this century and she works mainly between Barcelona and Majorca. She won first prize in the third edition of the “Mare de Déu de Gràcia” painting and sculpture competition in Maó. Her work uses mixed media techniques and is known for the pictorial purpose she gives to everyday materials such as rope and cardboard. Her creations are a passage to the most primordial essence. Her works are stripped of all artifice.
He learnt in an illustration studio in Barcelona and later settled in Switzerland, where he began engraving. Influenced by an atmosphere of avant-garde artists, such as Joan Miró, his work is characterized by a personal language, full of symbols that form part of its own imaginary that takes us to a dreamlike world. His style evolves towards German expressionism, in which he surpassed the traditional medium and mastered more alternative techniques.
Pere Bech Sudrià was a painter and draughtsman who cultivated the classic themes in figurative art (landscapes, figures and still lifes), works clearly aligned to an expressionist current in which the drawing is developed using blackened strokes. Throughout his extensive artistic career, he garnered many awards, most notably the first prize in painting and drawing at the Exposición Nacional de Educadores-Artistas, held in Madrid in 1959.
Raúl Belinchón’s origins were marked by documentary photography and a certain journalistic spirit coexisted with the idea of creating an inventory of everything he observed and captured with his lens. He is immersed in the connection between the plastic discipline and photography through the vanishing point and colour. He features places of transit, architectural interiors of halls and theatres around the world… with the intentional absence of humankind, which when decontextualized make the observer’s gaze the protagonist in its creative process. Notable among his recent awards are the Fuji Euro Press Photo first prize, and a World Press Photo 2004 prize, in the art section.
Damon Bell is a self-taught, English painter who lives and works in Barcelona. He uses small and medium-sized formats to transport his unique visions of the everyday urban landscapes that surround us, giving a voice to those corners of the city that go unnoticed and denouncing the rushed life and routine in which present-day society lives. His precise use of acrylics and watercolours also helps him capture those moments of light that transform his realism into something magical that invites you to explore it.
Federico Beltrán Masses is a renowned painter who trained in Madrid and Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Joaquín Sorolla. From beginnings that capture the essence of a whole series of Spanish artists, he evolved towards a representation of the rural world wrapped in tragic naturalism. In 1910, his style consolidated through the use of allegorical compositions loaded with symbolism, in which female and male portraits overflow with sensuality and beauty, while at the same time becoming obscured by a perverse, decadent spectre. He was member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and received numerous awards such as Knight of the Order of Malta and Commander of the Legion of Honour (1927).
As a photographer Jordi Belver has two great passions: firstly, architecture and the articulation of the spaces that this involves, and the lights and shades it creates; and secondly, artists and how to convey with an image the character that is concealed beneath, the thought, environment and experiences.
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