Xavier Agramont started out in the world of photography in the fifties and has always shown a keen interest in everyday aspects of society. In 1962, he opened a photographic studio and spent his free time photographing people, squares, beaches and other public spaces in Barcelona, the Empordà and Italy. The artist’s prolific work, focused on the most popular and human aspects, is an indispensable testimony to the process of change that occurred in the second half of the twentieth century. The artwork by this virtually unknown photographer was exhibited for the first time during an exhibition at Can Mario in 2008.
Artur Aguilar is a painter, draughtsman and engraver aligned within geometric abstraction, minimal linear structures, games of chromaticisms and relationships of proportion, movement, rhythm and harmony. He articulates a restrained, coherent language akin to Piet Mondrian’s neo-plasticism and Paul Klee’s hermeneutics.
Alongside his passion for painting, Darío Aguilar started working in other artistic disciplines such as sculpture and furniture design, although he has recently begun building theatrical sets. He mainly works with acid-etched wrought iron on a variety of sculptural and decorative projects. His abstract creations are the result of fusing geometry and curvilinear contortions which, like real brain-teasers with points of entry and exit, three-dimensional puzzles and word searches, are the habitat of structures, graphics and ideograms that coexist with eurythmy.
Ramon Aguilar Moré’s painting career passed through different stages: naive, expressionist, cubist and realist. Through the use of the spatula, he created cubic forms, synthesized architectures and disperse figures. He gives great prominence to light, using white, grey, blue and black tones that he combines with techniques of oil painting, watercolours and gouache and waxes. He builds aesthetic constructions that endow a wise atmosphere of neo-romanticism based on a predominantly feminine theme, while he also portrays beach life, urban landscape, still lifes and interior stages for dance, ballet, opera and jazz.
Influenced by the work of Juli González, Constantin Brâncuși and the Russian constructivists, Sergi Aguilar’s career is marked by coherence and ductility. A pure and geometric language, devoid of a minimalist attribution due to his exquisite way of interpreting symmetry as spatial measure; the idea of passage configures new walkable spaces creating erratic situations that delve into nature. In 1986, his first monumental sculpture, Júlia, was mounted on Via Júlia in Barcelona in honour of the emigrant population.
Personal and intimate painting. Rosa Aguiló’s creations are the starting point from which to project the expression of a feeling. Through synthesis and economic use of the media she aims to get the viewer to move closer, look and let their imagination fly. Time for silence, time to observe, in which each stroke, each gesture, evokes a feeling of fragility, a clear appearance of simple forms and soft colours. Although her approach went through a period of abstraction, these days her work moves between a conceptual style and plastic minimalism.
In the eighties, Pep Agut set up an alternative space for contemporary art, called Grup Tal Taca (1980–1983). Five years later he moved to live in Cologne (Germany) and, in 1991, he was invited to be an artist-in-residence at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. Based on his pictorial-photographic training, he focuses his interest on the limits of representation, the role of the artist and the place of art. Starting from a conception of a complex and personal working process, through the use of techniques, media and concepts, he studies ideas and theories related to representation, language and architecture.
Since 1977, Akinbode Akinbiyi has focused his work on photojournalism and architectural and cultural photography of western urban life and large African cities such as Lagos, Cairo, Kinshasa and Johannesburg. He has exhibited at galleries in Berlin and Barcelona, Tokyo and Havana, and is the cofounder of Umzansi Cultural Centre in Clermont Township, South Africa.
Nei Albertí Gascons’ sculptures reflect the will to perpetuate and prolong the form in space. He endows corporeality to the trajectory made by the trace of everything that moves but does not need to be seen. His artwork is characterized by linear simplicity and the open ellipses created by a swirl of paths heading towards the immensity of infinity.
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