Eduard Arranz-Bravo was a prestigious multidisciplinary artist who worked with Rafael Bartolozzi for over a decade on arts projects that marked the history of contemporary Spanish art. His early paintings are set within the Informalism that he gave up in 1961, having been seduced by Caravaggio’s naturalism. They lie midway between the world of surrealism and the aesthetics of pop art and the repeated presence of the human figure makes an ironic allusion to the troubles, insecurities and anxieties of humankind today.
Francesc Artigau is a painter, draughtsman and engraver, set within the North American avant-garde currents that came, in the sixties, to replace the traditional dependency on Parisian and European events. His early work reflects the impact of North American pop art adapting its classic myths and iconographic elements to a caustic language, with an ironic and burlesque background. In recent years his artwork reveals a personal debate between intuition and reason, scepticism and passion, reflection and immediacy, and linear rigour and chromatic sensuality. In 1965, he received an honourable mention at the III Bienal de Zaragoza, and was awarded the Premi of Ajuntament de Terrassa in 1967 and the Premi de la Ciutat de l’Hospitalet in 1968.
Mar Arza is a sculptor of words, which are carefully unstitched from their original stories to weave new conceptual, verbal and plastic meanings; through this non-writing she rewrites manipulated books in order to achieve an artistic lyricism. Her career comprises a debate around words and their sensitive and material dimension, she chooses pages from books at random, meticulously dissects texts and phrases or emphasizes words that take on a sculptural form.
Original compositions characterized by a rich chromaticism in which the formal simplicity of human figures is the object of an ironic reflection. Oswald Aulestia’s painting has oriented towards minimalism and the synthetization of discourse. Poetry of colour, of planes, in which the simple images of geometric figures are vectors of a direct, sincere message.
Graduated in Illustration from the Escola d’Arts Pau Gargallo in Barcelona, Ricard Aymar completed his training in a QUAM workshop, interactive interventions directed by the artist Alfredo Jaar, and in workshops on iron sculpture, engraving and screen printing at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. After working as an artist’s assistant in different studios, receiving several scholarships and mentions, and working on many collaborations, his artistic career began to take off with his participation in both solo and collective exhibitions. He works with sculpture, drawing and photography. His suggestive and disturbing images, with a poetic language, express a universe in which the artist navigates through a world of dreams and decontextualized figures, relocating them to recreate unreal places and dreamlike non-places.
Pilar Aymerich studied in Barcelona, London and Paris. She specialized in reportage photography and portrait, and began her career in publications such as Triunfo, Destino, Cambio 16, El País and Fotogramas, among others. She also collaborated on books about Catalan women including Mercè Rodoreda and Montserrat Roig. Her first projects coincided with the events that occurred during the transition to democracy in Spain and she managed to capture the key moments. Pilar’s approach also succeeds in encapsulating her subjects, in a natural yet detailed way, when she takes portraits, be they of people demonstrating in the street or cultural figures who are posing for her. Pilar Aymerich’s work becomes – both in the scene and action at a crucial moment and in the placidity of the surroundings that frame the portrait – a testament to those people who took to the streets demanding the rights that had been denied to them during forty years of Franco’s dictatorship, and shows the determination of civic society to reclaim its freedom and progress through collective action. She has held several positions at the journalists’ association, Col·legi de Periodistes, and in 2005 she was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi.
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