From his first abstract models to material expressionism, Josep Niebla combined his artistic work with an active participation in politics in the country. He was one of the founders of the Barcelona section of Estampa Popular, a group of artists who created the so-called social art. He understood painting as an expressive medium, in which textures, colours and material qualities are the vocabulary of all those emotions that cannot be accessed through words. A poetic, dedicated work towards a revaluation of social commitment. A common theme is a constant recurrence to the sea as a silent space for reflection.
Manel Álvarez is an artist who works with material tensions and has been able to assimilate the heritage of Jean Arp, Constantin Brâncuși and Henry Moore. His theme of great symbolism seeks to endow the material with a metaphysical density that transcends the physical dimension of the object. He is a sculptor of pure lines who rediscovers primitive forms in search of the essential geometry and as a return to the sources of unveiled and revealed representation. He modifies the material by enabling the latent dream to emerge, thus leaving the soul of the stones, metals and woods exposed.
Chema Alvargonzález was a photographer and multimedia artist with a sound conceptual style who researches different urban and architectural spaces in which chance is the catalyst for constant transformations. His artistic universe is the object of multiple perspectives and confrontations of concepts: human collective, city, travel, memory, absence and playing with light. He created installations in which light and words written with neon make a pictorial representation on the façades of such emblematic buildings as the Spanish embassy in Berlin (1992), the old control tower at Munich airport (2000) and the Swiss embassy in Berlin (2001).
Alfonso Alzamora focused on painting in the early stages of his career and then gradually combined this with sculpture. He uses concepts of double meaning, apparently opposite elements that provoke reflections from absence: rationality and symmetry of geometric structures which contain indeterminate and infinite concepts that are expressed in empty spaces such as holes or stairs. A metaphor for life that joins the visible part with the ethereal scarcity intertwined on the void. His work becomes poetic, in which the baroque idea of eternity connects with the minimalist precision of the cube, searching for the sensitive aspect of things.
Since discovering photography in 2007, Maria Alzamora has made the camera her ally in capturing everyday moments. In this way, her photography opens a path to spontaneous glances that, fleeting or penetrating, show the essence of a moment to the viewer. She also enjoys playing with the spaces where the human figure is represented by objects and atmospheres that reveal, like an open story, part of the history of a presence that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
Compositions that draw inspiration from post-cubist and surrealist currents, in which the superposition of elements brings on the effect of movement. Jordi Amagat uses acrylics on paper and canvas and explores the technique of collage on wood in a mural format. Some themes are disturbing while others emanate placidity, and they are treated with dynamic volumetry and beneath a refined play of light. In his paintings, figuration coexists with abstraction, geometry with organic, and polychromy which he contrasts with the immense ochre or grey background.
Frederic Amat is a multidisciplinary artist who works in the fields of plastic arts and the performing arts. He became interested in experimental and conceptual art, and carried out various actions, during the seventies. At the end of the decade, he embarked on travels in North Africa, Mexico and the USA which had a profound effect on his work and led him to develop a very expressive artwork charged with symbols such as rituals, magic and religion. Most noteworthy among his varied and extensive production are his stage sets and theatrical readaptations, and his direction of films such as Viaje a la Luna (Journey to the moon), by Federico García Lorca, in 1998.
Long stays in Morocco and Mallorca and recent frequent trips to Asia have left their mark on the artwork by this multifaceted artist. Jaume Amigó is a painter, engraver, sculptor and practitioner of the ancestral raku technique, whose work is characterized by a refined hieroglyphic language, of simple lines and forms which find their source of inspiration in everyday utensils or in nature itself, such as the clouds or flowers. Thus, his art, which is simultaneously heterogeneous and abstract, is open to multiple interpretations. He has accomplished an extensive career, both nationally and internationally.
With an ever-present interest in painting, Carles Amill studied at Escola d’Art Sant Jordi at the Universitat de Barcelona, and graduated in painting techniques. He soon combined his creative talent with teaching at Escola d’Arts i Oficis in Reus, where he taught classes on artistic procedures. In 1986, he moved to New York and lived there for twenty years, without ever fully abandoning his connections with Reus. When he returned to Catalonia, he settled in Barcelona and Vinyols, where he lived the final years of his life. His early work was focused on the field of body art, progressing on to paint on more traditional media characterized by earthy and black colours, as well as organic forms with occasional figurative references. He stated that in his paintings he tried to refer to and review the colours and lights of baroque painting within a twenty-first century perspective, and he was working on this with method and discipline during the last days of his life.
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