María Bleda (Castelló, 1969) and José María Rosa (Albacete, 1970) have worked together for over thirty years. Their work meanders between the captured instant and the palpable imprint of yesteryear. Photographs that contain a disassociation between the lived experiences and the moment reproduced in the image: the moment bears witness, not as a present, but only as a revindication of our memory. The arduous documentary process and the historical study of events that occurred in that place are not aimed at being a documentary legacy, though they are an approximation of aspects and behaviours that form part of previous generations. Archaeological portraits, silence, emptiness, absence, abandoned spaces of a phantasmagorical dimension... are the reflection of the irreversibility of the passing of time.
Josep Bofill i Moliné, known artistically as Pep Bofill, is a sculptor, painter and draughtsman. He is the son of Josep Bofill i Herrero and successor, at an early stage, of a family lineage of nativity scene artists. His painting is done in a drawing style, and his sculpture is framed within a realistic aesthetic with a philosophical substratum in which duality, ambiguity and the struggle of opposites are debated. He created the Al·legoria de Sant Jordi sculpture for the Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona in 1983.
Degree in Fine Arts from the Universitat Politècnica de València, and further enriched her training in New York, Santiago in Chile, and Italy. She focuses on oil painting, engraving and sculpture. In 2009, she decided to delve into illustration, which she continued working with until 2021, at which point she wholly dedicated herself to painting. She distances herself from figurative representation in order to explore abstraction and minimal expression, in which an almost absolute white emerges as the central element. By using lines and material compositions, she combines pale and sombre colours, almost always creating glazes on a white background. Her works have a very personal intimate style which narrate the artist’s own experiences and memories. She has held numerous exhibitions throughout her artistic career, including in Barcelona, Paris, Berlin and Mexico. In 2018, she was awarded the Medalla al Mèrit Cultural by the Generalitat de València.
Antonio Borandi Gavin’s sculptural work began within figurativism which gave way to new abstract forms. The artist worked with the renowned art critic Àngel Marsà on the Sagrada Família temple. He creates light structures whose essence lies in the use of heterogenous materials such as wood and cotton. In his work the volumes are proportional to the empty spaces and movement is related to the exhalation of a sigh or the soft breezes that bend some forms giving the appearance of dancing. His is a new way of sculpting in which the form is not defined by the weight, but rather by the bodies that spin around in the space.
Painter and painting instructor, he worked on the magazine Riutort together with Andreu Castells. Member of the Gallot group and the Sala Tres of the Academy of Fine Arts of Sabadell, he was active within the current of abstract art. In 1977 he came into contact with the poet Joan Brossa, with whom he collaborated on a number of projects. His work is characterised by sombre monochromes, setting him apart from the material-based tendency of art informel.
Pere Jaume Borrell i Guinart, known as Perejaume, is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the questions posed by the nature-culture duality arising from a romantic reference against consumerism, the crowd, and technological frenzy, warning us of the need to create new cartographies, cognitive maps of a new dialectic of representations as mirrors of our metamorphic social complexity. His “evolving” work gives the observer an active role, in which each of us transcribes our own daily diary. Perejaume’s work combines the plastic arts and literature, which by the use of metaphor expands in all directions and, at the same time, hinders the cataloguing of so much richness and complexity.
Gabriel Brau Gelabert began working as a professional photographer in the field of advertising. In about 1976, his work was recognized particularly for his documentary photography and use of black and white, and for his spectacular mastery of light. Seeking the expression of life, his photographs capture, through a personal and respectful approach, daily life in places he has visited on his travels, especially in Africa, where he attempts to find the essence of human values in more primitive realities and reflects on how our society, oversaturated as it is with information and capitalist models of consumerism, has been losing such values as time goes by.
Síria Brau is a figurative painter who focuses her attention on the diversity of natural nuances. She studied at Escola Massana and Escola de la Llotja in Barcelona. She has exhibited at prestigious galleries in Venice and Catalonia.
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