Gaspar Badia Masgrau began his artistic career in painting, but was then captivated by the expressive power of three-dimensional forms and, in 1975, he changed his focus to sculpture. He has researched in the three-dimensional discipline ever since then by creating quadrangular forms which he blends or modifies and distorts, in puzzle-like forms, to generate a new object space. The titles of his artworks, often quite philosophical and transcendental, direct and draw the viewer closer to the artist to reach the true essence in each of his creations.
Francisco Noguiera is a photographer and architect, who connects the image directly to the environment, searching for the lines that define the spaces which, either created by humankind or nature, contain the essence of the constructive action. He plays with framing and lighting in a dizzying and contrasting way in the search to monumentalize these extensions that strengthen the inherent capacity of human beings to materialize their conceived ideas.
Jordi Baijet was a self-taught painter and draughtsman. His watercolours and oils reveal his technical mastery of aspects such as colour, meticulousness and control of gesture. The artist stands out for his lyrical, colourist and crafted vision of the environment, and with a melancholic touch imbues his work with life. The dialogue between blank spaces and a paper devoid of colours is one of the most notable features of his artwork. He was awarded the Premi al Millor Artista Estranger per l’Associació Plàstica Llatina de Saint-Armand-Montrond in 1996.
Josep Enric Balaguer specialized early on in technical drawing and worked with cultural magazines such as Quadern and Quacòmic. Gradually and driven by a great resolve, Balaguer began painting and the success of his first exhibition at the gallery Cau d’Art in Sabadell, in 1988, encouraged him to delve further in the world of painting. Aligned with the international pictorial current of New Realism he painted pure compositions, stripped of all superfluity, devoid of complementary elements, and with a great chromatic richness, sensitivity and lyricism. His still lifes reflect a delicate and meticulous line and portray everyday objects in a warm and beautiful way which, within an apparently magical reality, transcend the earthly world.
Alfred Xavier Balasch painted dreamlike abstract creations, opaque magmas with an intense chromaticism – yellows, greens and earthy colours – which are subjected to a simple geometrical division loaded with ambiguity and tension. Geological process, sedimentations, material disintegration, accumulation of layers or strata on his canvases. In short, memory of an open unfinished process, that conveys a multiplicity of interpretations which extend into the infinity of time.
With a degree in Technical Architecture from the Universitat de Barcelona, Eugènia Balcells begins her artistic career in the mid-sixties and becomes one of the pioneers of audiovisual art and experimental art in Spain. Her artwork focuses on human perception and seeks a permanent balance between the intangible and the material, and is also characterized by using light as a core element. Her work has been exhibited at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), El Museo del Barrio (New York) and the Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), among others. In 2010 she was awarded the Premi Nacional d’Arts Visuals de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
An artist-in-residence at Taller BDN since 2011, Gerard Ballester began his studies in sculpture at the prestigious Escola d’Arts Aplicades Massana in Barcelona and was awarded a drawing scholarship at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc. The study of form, the language of nature and the exploration of the balance between perceptible and imperceptible bodies, draw in sculpture a play of contrasts that offers us as a result delicate and harmonious actions which keep the observer on the threshold between what could be real and tangible and what is not, shaping the sublime that is concealed within any receptacle, be it of natural or artificial origin.
Manolo Ballesteros’ art is intuitive, spontaneous and devoid of any particular implicit message whereby his artwork speaks for itself. In recent years, he has been experimenting in the field of abstraction, playing with geometrical complexity through the uniformity of colours and the reduction of contours. As a result of this research, his most recent work reflects the convergence of rounded forms on a monochromatic background in which the observer is immersed in an energetic and dynamic art.
Isabel Banal i Xifré is an artist aligned with the art of language, who extends the domain of the object towards the idea and increases the materiality to the point of exhausting it. She sees art as a mental operation and not as mere appearance because, even though each element has its own identity, a bond of deep relationships is created. Ever since her early years, her sculptural work is imbued with the landscape as a mystical component inherent to nature, evidence of an immobile work that endures over time through the detemporalization of the expressive media within a slow conception of the world.
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