The human faces divided into two predominate in Antonio Beneyto Senabre’s work, referring to the male and female elements, the yin and yang, showing faces with a certain magic to them. Hybrid and monstrous creatures that create a phantasmagorical perspective for the observer, in which everything human is nothing more than a memory, a trace of a distant past. His literary technique is similar to his pictorial one, both based on a multiplication of readings, to diversify the spaces and build the contours of a festive eroticism. His imaginative art advocates surrealist metaphysics, showing the dreamlike world with a large dose of irony and sarcasm.
Antoni Bernad i Margarit studied Fine Arts and began working as a draughtsman on fashion magazines. In 1966, he decided to wholly dedicate himself to photography and in 1967 he moved to Paris and began working as a fashion photographer for magazines such as Elle, Vogue, Jardin des modes, etc. His photographs try to evade clichés and frivolity and, far removed from the superficiality that is usually associated with fashion photography, Bernad explores in-depth the psychology of the portrayed characters and, by avoiding stereotypes, offers a sincere homage to women.
Jordi Bernadó has been interested in documentary photography since the nineties, and this leads to an analysis of the urban landscape and its transformations, such as overpopulation, depopulation of some places, and the conversion of industrial zones to business-oriented areas. He is a tireless researcher who reflects on architecture and cities through a critical and ironic perspective: an erratic traveller who decodes his surroundings and whose extravagant anecdotes with infinite histories and interpretations are concealed behind each of his images.
Juan Luis Berral is a realist painter who is mostly interested in the relationship between art, architecture and urbanism. He portrays scenes of interiors reminiscent of the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi by depicting uninhabited places predominated by atmosphere and light. He has taken part in several artistic projects in public spaces, such as a pictorial installation in a derelict house in which the artist represents the past, present and future, and other pictorial interventions in urban spaces in Badalona.
Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, specializing in sculpture. He is an artist who is especially interested in the relationships between art, architecture and language. In sculpture, he has made a critical review of certain historic events and of the avant-gardes and the formalisms of the twentieth century. In the early 2000s, he worked with Marc Vives, creating the Bestué-Vives artistic duo and exhibiting at the Venice Biennial in 2004. He has exhibited his work solo at La Capella in Barcelona, at the Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Gasworks space in London, among others.
Joana Biarnés i Florensa was the first woman photojournalist in the Spanish media at a time when Spanish society, immersed in the Franco dictatorship, was deeply sexist. This context did not diminish her determination as she learnt photography from her father, the sports photographer Joan Biarnés, and completed her journalistic studies at the Escola de Periodisme in Barcelona. In 1963, following a chance collaboration with the magazine Pueblo, its director, Emilio Romero, offered her employment on its editorial team, which she accepted and subsequently moved to Madrid. This was the start of a sensational professional career. Biarnés contributed a new perspective to the press of the time and her determination and persistence in getting the image just as she wanted it, without any frills, meant she was often offered some of the most sought-after exclusive commissions. She moved on to work for ABC and set up her own news agency, Sincro Press, in 1974. This was a time when the commercial objectives of the paparazzi and the sensationalist tabloid press overrode the ethics of journalism and Biarnés ceased to feel comfortable in her profession and she retired. Her decision showed great wisdom, commitment, and an indisputable loyalty to the profession she had learnt from her father. Joana Biarnés was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014) and the Medalla de la Ciutat de Terrassa (2017).
José Juan Bigas Luna is most well-known for his career in cinematography but he always saw himself as a painter. He defined his filmmaking as painting in which he gave great importance to the visual aspect. Through his painting he reveals an intense inner world in which dualities and the intangible converge in an aesthetic inspired by primitivism. It trained at the Escola Eina and Escola Elisava in Barcelona – as well as teaching in both schools in the seventies – and began working in industrial design and marketing. He was a co-founder of GRIS studio, which won many design awards, notably Delta d’Or (1970). In the seventies he held several painting exhibitions at Sala Vinçon and Escola Eina in Barcelona. He directed his first film, Tatuaje, in 1976, which led to a lifelong career in cinema.
Ramon Bigas is a clear example of a multidisciplinary artist who, starting from radical positions, delves into the world of commercial design, midway between utopia and reality. In 1981, he co-founded, along with Pep Sant, the company AD Associate Designers, where they develop versatility in industrial projects, most notably the design of the Spanish high-speed train and the cauldron for the Olympic flame at the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992. He has developed a prolific artistic and industrial professional career.
Sculptures that range from figuration to abstraction; from absolute synthesis, arising from the discretion of the line, to forms with corporeal density; Lluís Blanc’s work responds to the introspection and evolution of an artist who is keen to give a voice to matter and the combination of certain materials that express themselves with a life of their own. Versatility of languages, porous material textures, smooth surfaces and fittings or stone couplings, like modelled fragments of nature, of reality, which he transforms into small pieces of universal soul that fluctuate within his discourse. Torn prints of momentary chance, instants endowed with an unfinished movement, infinite... a Michealangelo-esque non finito movement that permeates some of his works.
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