Nacho Amor is a painter who does not adhere to the aesthetic concept of the picturesque but rather to romantic and enigmatic landscape art. He works in restoration and uses worn fabrics and old wood as an artistic medium. A play on light reverberations, with modulated shades and chiaroscuros which, beneath a Nordic gaze, infuse his creations with meditation and melancholy. Fascinated by the nocturnal darkness, his paintings are trapped by a blackness of subtle whitened incursions.
An outstanding sculptural ceramicist who, in recent years, has worked on radical, transgressive pieces with a forceful expressionist character. She experiments with the use of the technique of earth and fire, while never breaking an irrefutable connection with contemporary Asturian ceramics. Her artwork takes us to dialogue, meditation, the random intuition of her most obscure, concealed feelings and passions about life, sexuality and death. Symbolic connotations seduced by their simplicity and primitivism in which the earth speaks for itself.
The sphere, void, movement and cosmos concentrate energetic and vital forces that, trapped within a stone structure, struggle to get out and be freed. Mariano Andrés Vilella’s geometric and coralline structures, with spheres and ovals imprisoned within the ventricle of the mass, endow life and movement to the matter in the same way they exude material consistency and firmness.
Her work is a constant reflection on the connections existing between light and space, emptiness and fullness, colour and transparency. Although Margarita Andreu’s assemblages recreate a 3D architectural dimension, the incorporation of photography into her work should be understood as a continuation of the conception and construction of the poetics of the vacuum arising from notions of ambiguity, transience and partialness.
At seventeen years of age, Robert Anglada won the “A la pintura Jove” award at Sala Parés, followed shortly afterwards with a scholarship from the Cercle Maillol at the Institut Français in Barcelona, which enabled him to study art in Paris. He drew inspiration from Informalism and the austere Terra Alta countryside of Horta de Sant Joan to create grey, dark fantastical landscapes, occasionally featuring organic or human forms. His painting caught the eye of critics such as Alexandre Cirici, Xavier Rubert de Ventós and Maria Lluïsa Borràs, who extolled him for the exaltation of aggressivity and the eroticism influenced by Francis Bacon. He was very successful in the sixties and held many exhibitions in Barcelona, Paris, Lyon and Germany.
Although Francesc Anglès graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1963, within a few years he had also embarked on artistic activity as a sculptor, mainly working with stone, bronze, wood and clay. In the early seventies, he incorporated a new material directly associated with his profession: plaster casts, which endow his works with a presence of partiality and imperfection. The colour white and the human figure predominate in his work, as well as the idea of the group in open-air sculpture, as in the Monument als castellers (Tarragona, 1999), which features 222 human figures. His work is highly realistic and has been associated with the artwork by the North-American sculptor George Segal.
Manel Anoro is a painter and draughtsman of works with a vitalistic character. From warm-coloured, stripped forms, the artist has moved on to a harmonious expression that revives and reinterprets the poetics of sensations, using his own, personal and timeless language, beyond the prevailing aesthetic fashions.
Enric Ansesa is considered to be one of the most established artists on the Catalan artistic scene. In 1976 he set up the Assemblea Democràtica d’Artistes de Girona, which organized actions to defend creative freedom. Two years later, he co-founded – along with Jaume Faixó, Jordi Gispert and Quim Corominas – the Art-Actitud magazine. Influenced by the “second avant-gardes”, he soon immersed himself in a dark and calligraphic universe, a personal sign of his creative identity. His works break with the concept of perspective and renaissance representation to create new dimensions through the play of lights and shades.
Bonaventura Ansón was a painter, engraver and sculptor who, from a Chagallesque atmosphere, embarked on complex Wagnerian tonal symphonies with an expressionist aftertaste, dizzying scenes that narrate epic episodes in the human adventure and informal spaces of lyrical chromaticism. Over the years, the original compositions with atmospheres of Romanticism evolved towards an abstract material synthesis, as an ode to humanity and its distorted moral and spiritual values.
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