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Luis Claramunt - Shipwrecks and storms



DATES
21/01/2022 - 01/05/2022
LOCATION
Espais Volart, Barcelona

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This anthological exhibition of the work by Luis Claramunt (Barcelona, ​​1951–Zarautz, 2000) aims to trace his brilliant thirty-year career and also recognize him as one of the most personal, intense and dramatic Catalan artists of the second half of the twentieth century.

The son of a wealthy family from Barcelona’s Eixample district, he left his family home when he was eighteen years old in and threw himself into the city’s wild social life, known as Barcelona canalla, and embraced gipsy culture.

In his early years, his pictorial work was clearly influenced by a range of artists – from Picasso to Munch, to Goya, Van Gogh, Gutiérrez Solana and Nonell – but he gradually created his own expressionist imaginary based on an increasingly gestural or calligraphic language. He was a tireless flâneur and also drew inspiration from street life and his favourite artists, such as Stevenson, Conrad and Monfreid, each of them narrators of dramatic adventures they had experienced at sea, and which the artist recreated in his own style.

This exhibition is curated by Sílvia Martínez Palou and Àlex Susanna, and it travels through the various cities that marked his career: Barcelona (1970–1985), Seville (1985–1990), with constant trips to Marrakech, and Madrid (1990–2000).


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