Bernat Daviu, master of abstraction

(b.1985, lives and works in Barcelona)
“Central to my practice is the making of images with discordant layers of meaning; addressing the issue of integrating life and art. Painting remains at the core of my production, however, it evolves alongside other disciplines allowing me to expand the potential information inherent in an image.
I am interested in the shift of significance of certain forms caused by time and context. Following this trajectory I have been contrasting the visionary experiments of utopian Modernism with specific situations taken from my personal life. Inevitably, irony is present in many of these juxtapositions,
particularly referring to the commercial and the critical values of art.
I am as much interested in what happens on the surface of my paintings as in what happens around the painting. Performance, video or costume design are other mediums I use to explore the possibilities of images.”
Bernat Daviu (1985, Fonteta). Studied at Central Saint Martins de Londres.
His works and projects have been exhibited at Caixa Forum (Barcelona 2019, Madrid 2020), Cuchifiritos Gallery (Nueva York, 2018), Bombon projects (Barcelona 2018), Fundació Arranz-Bravo (L’Hospitalet, 2017), Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona,2016), Nau Estruch (Sabadell, 2015), Galeria Balaguer (Barcelona, 2015), Uma certa falta de coerencia (Porto, 2014), Guest Projects (London, 2012), Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, 2012) or Bienal de Jafre (Jafre, 2009), among others.

“Central to my practice is the making of images with discordant layers of meaning that often address the issue of merging life and art. Painting is present in many of my projects, alongside video, costume-design, food or performance; mediums that allow me to generate social dynamic situations in the physical and collective space.

I am interested in the shifts of meaning caused by time and context, allowing new imaginaries to emerge. References to Modern art are recurrent in my work. These are entangled with my own personal life and other anonymous stories in order to question established forms and ideas. Irony is present in many of these juxtapositions, particularly referring to the conflict between the commercial and the critical values of art.

The activation of the work is a very important part of my projects, it is for this reason that I often collaborate with other artists such as dancers and filmmakers or people from other fields in order to enhance these situations.”

Studies

2005-2008 Central Saint Martin’s: BA (Hons) Fine Art (1st Class Honours), London, UK
 
Exhibitions
2023

Deep Frieze (with Rasmus Nilaussen), Torreloft, Copenhagen (duo show)

Good evening. Do not attempt to adjust the radio. There is nothing wrong., Belo campo, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisboa (group show)

2022

Intenció poètica, MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona), 2022-2023 (group show)

M.A.C.B.A, MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona), 2022 (performance)

The galleries show, Bombon at Office Baroque, 2022 (group show)

ARCO (with Joana Escoval and Enric Farrés Duran), Bombon projects, Madrid (fair)

2021
CLUBS -Art a la pista, Freedonia, Barcelona (festival)
Just abans de la mort de la pintura, MAC, Mataró (solo)
I’ve got a suitcase of memories…, Joey Ramone, Rotterdam (group show)
Intruders, Fundació Tàpies, Barcelona (performance/workshop)
Villa Rosita, curated by Pol Ricart and Sjors Bindels (group show)
Sala d’espera, Bombon projects, Barcelona (solo show)

2020
Vearitat i mentida en l’art contemporani, Centre d’Art Maristany, Sant Cugat del Vallés (group show)
Dos espacios, Galeria Angels, Barcelona (group show)
Ara mateix, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona (group show)
Greatest hits, Bombon projects summer space (group show)
The Drawing lesson, Museu de Capellades (group show)

2019
E gira tutto intorno alla Stanza, Caixa Forum, Madrid (performance)
10 anys, Fundació Arranz-Bravo, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (group show)
Sunday Art Fair, London (fair, duo show with Anna Dot)
Vernissage sur l’herbe, FESTUS, Torelló  (performance)
La pintura. Un reto permanente, Caixa Forum, Barcelona (group show)
Coctel de gambes, Calella de Palafrugell (group show)
Premi de pintura Francesc Gimeno, Museu de Tortosa (group show)
Le Lucky, curated by Josep Maynou, HVW8, Berlin (group show)

2018
NADA Miami, Miami, USA (fair, duo show with Pere Llobera)
La gran tornada, Soho House El Garraf (performance)
Jornada Garrofista, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona (performance)
Inmarchitables, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, USA (group show)
Apaño (Angela de la Cruz, Vasilis Asimakopoulos, Bernat Daviu), Bombon projects, Barcelona (group show)

2017
Loop Discover Award, Loop Film Festival, Antiga Fàbrica Damn, Barcelona (group show)
Sublimey (group show with Marc Badia and Luis Guerra), Hans and Fritz, Barcelona  (group show)
Garrofistes, Fundació Arranz-Bravo, l’Hospitalet de Llobregat (solo show) 
Trobada Garrofista (Forever Blowing Bubbles), MACBA, Barcelona (performance)

2016
Guanyar-se les garrofes (Forever Blowing Bubbles), Fundació Miró, Barcelona, Spain (Loop film festival)
Slow, thick fingers, Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK (group show)

2015
Còctel Show, Galeria Balaguer, Barcelona, Spain  (solo show)
Forever Blowing Bubbles, Nau Estruch, Sabadell, Spain (group show)
Aleksandr Rodhcenko’s Stuffed Olive: Bernat Daviu / Redestinar: Bruno Ollé i Nikita Routchenko, The Laboratory, Barcelona, Spain (duo show with Bruno Ollé)

2014
Sacsejar la mirada, Unzip, El Prat, Spain (group show)
Un Francès, un Anglès i un Espanyol, La Puntual, St Cugat, Spain (group show)
Act I. A Way Home, The LivingRoom, London, UK (group show)
En algun punt de la línia, Uma Certa falta de Coerencia, Porto, Portugal (solo show)
Painted Realities, Hanmi Gallery, London, UK (group show)

2013
Bernat Daviu and Joan Saló, PictoBCN, El Siglo, St.Cugat, Spain (presentation)
Fundació Vila Casas Painting Award, Can Framis Museum, Barcelona, Spain (group show)
Suspense (with Alaena Turner), UCL, London, UK (duo show with Alaena Turner)
 
2012
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK  (group show)
20 Rue de Jacob – A Salon for Performance and Other Happenings, Galleria Rajatila, Tampere, Finland (group show)
What do you do?, Intervention in LAUDA’s headquarters, Lauda-Königshofen, Germany (solo show)
What do you do?, Palau de Casavells, Casavells, Spain (solo show)
Orchestrated, Studio One Gallery, Cato Hall, London, UK (group show)
Shelves, Chairs and Boiler suits, Tollbodallmenningen 39, Bergen, Norway (group show)
 
2011 
Stuff on the wall, on the floor, floating in the air…, Guest Projects, London, UK (group show)
The Public House- a pop-up home for performance, Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, London, UK (group show)
Art Barter, C arte C, Madrid, Spain (group show)
 
2010 
Drive Thru (Old Bridge), with Harry Blackett and Sam Whittaker, Deptford X Festival, London, UK (group show)
From London With Love, Wanha Woimala, Vaajakoski, Finland (group show)
The Real Van Gogh Part 2, Studio 1 Gallery, London, UK (solo show)
‘The decade 2010-2020’ The Museum as hostage to fortune’, Pigeon Wing Gallery, London, UK (group show)
 
2009 
Pintura Democràtica, IV Bienal de Jafre, Jafre, Spain (group show)
Splash Paintings, Galeria Miquel Alzueta, Barcelona (solo show)
Underground Temple For Paintings, with Harry Blackett at Next Art Fair, Chicago (duo show with Harry Blackett)
The Little Show, Studio 1 Gallery, London, UK (group show)
Group Show, Galeria Miquel Alzueta, Barcelona (group show)
 
2008 
Jesús was an artist … Galeria Miquel Alzueta, Casavells, Spain (solo show)
CSM 08 Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London, UK (group show)
 
2007 
Exporta-accions, Castell de la Bisbal d’Empordà, La Bisbal d’Empordà, Spain (group show)
Super-heroes, Galeria Marita Segovia, Madrid, Spain (solo show)
Da! Tottenham Court Road, London, UK (group show)
 
Publications
Whose language does the produce speak?, Artist Alliance inc, 2018
Garrofistes -Bernat Daviu, Fundació Arranz-Bravo, 2017
Artist film and video today, Loop Barcelona, 2016
Porró, Apis press, Norway, 2014
Fundació Vila Casas painting award, Barcelona, 2013
PictoBCN, Barcelona, 2013
What do you do?, Casavells, Spain, 2012
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, UK, 2012
Shelves, Charis and Boilersuits, Apis press, Norway, 2012
From London with Love (limited edition of 200 copies), Finland, 2010
‘The decade 2010-2020’ The Museum as hostage to fortune’, An Endless Supply, UK, 2010
Artists’ Impressions of Spaces for Paintings, An Endless Supply, UK, 2010
Underground Temple for Paintings, An Endless Supply, UK, 2010
 
Residencies and workshops
2018 Artist Alliance, New York, USA
2015 Nau Estruch, Sabadell, Spain
2012 Experimental cinema workshop by Walter Temporelli, Hangar, Barcelona. Screening at Caixa Forum, Barcelona
2011 Retreat residency, Paradise Lost, Cumbria, UK

Perez Art Museum PAMM

Joaquim Chancho, master of abstraction

Alias:Joaquín Chancho CabréJoaquim Chancho

Chancho began his training in Reus, where he studied drawing and sculpture. He later completed his studies, thanks to a scholarship, at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de Sant Jordi in Barcelona, where he later taught. After finishing his studies he travelled around Spain and visited Paris. Chancho is currently a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, where he received his doctorate in 1992, and has exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, with exhibitions at the Joan Miró Foundation, the Centre d’Art Santa Mónica, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Ibiza, the Museum of Art of Tarragona, the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico, and in 2003, a major retrospective at the Sala Tecla in Hospitalet de Llobregat. He has received numerous prestigious awards for painting and drawing, including a grant from the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, and the first prize for painting at the Tarragona Biennial in 1987. His work can be found in the collections of the Fundació La Caixa, MACBA and the Generalitat de Catalunya, among others.

Joaquim Chancho is one of the fundamental painters of contemporary Catalan culture. His work, linked to abstraction, is defined by an intense study that starts with silence, geometry and natural cycles. His career during forty years of dedication is a model of coherence, conceptual rigour and mastery of technical resources. This has materialized in numerous solo exhibitions, important group exhibitions, publications, and presence in collections and museums, including the MACBA and the Joan Miró Foundation (Barcelona), the Art Center Berlin Friedrichstrasse, the National Museum of Korea, in Seoul, and the Tamayo Museum in Mexico.

BIOGRAPHY

1943 
Born in Riudoms, Tarragona.

1962
Studied up to 1967 at the Escola Superior of Belles Arts Sant Jordi (Fine arts School) of Barcelona. Nominated for the “Premio a la Pintura Joven” (Young Painters’ Prize), offered by the Sala Parés in Barcelona. Architectural landscapes and arboreal themes; constructive elements with dense, pigmented brushstrokes.

1966
First individual exhibition at the Centre de Lectura of Reus (Reus Reading Centre). Material paintings, informalist and Tàpies influences. Movements towards a non-retinian painting.

1970 
Spent a period in Paris with a scholarship from the Castellblanch Art Foundation of Barcelona. First pictorial representations based on the interpolation of the gesture in geometry.
Opened a study in Barcelona, near the Santa Caterina Market.

1973
Received a scholarship from the Juan March Foundation in Madrid. Publication of the book A, by the Industrial Engineering School of Barcelona. Series of linear transformations based upon successive sequences or cyclical series of images. Sign and calligraphic elements.

1976 
Took part in “Pintura 1”,at the Miró Foundation in Barcelona. Canvasses, large format papers, paintings that go outside the physical space of the support and occupy the floor.

1980 
Long period of crisis. The sign links occupy the surface with no apparent order. He withdraws to his study. Abandons traditional wall-based supports and works in books and notepads in a prolonged attempt to start anew. Starts the series called Treballs de taula (Table works). Opens a photomechanical workshop.

1987 
Closes the photomechanical workshop. First painting prize of the “Biennial of the Provincial Government of Tarragona”.
Takes part in Spanish Art in the Caixa de Pensions Foundation Collection, of the Cultural Centre of the “La Caixa” Foundation in Barcelona. Begins work in co-operation with the Escola Eina (Tool school) in Barcelona, up until 1997. Circles, ovals, expansive curves that embrace the surface of the picture. The rapid drying of the procedure conditions the speed of the taking of pictorial decisions.

1993 
Doctorate in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. Titular Professor of the University of Barcelona in the Faculty of Fine Arts. As the painting settles, the procedure takes longer. Time is suspended between thought and gesture. Tiempo sobre tiempo (Time on Time). Verticals and horizontals: the two-dimensional nature of the pictorial surface.

1997 
Spends periods in his house in El Pla de Santa Maria (Tarragona, Spain). Chromatic and light reconsiderations of the internal spaces and, at the same time, ordering and modification of the open spaces, and a spatial integration (internal space/ external space) returns him to the fundamental aspects of painting. Takes part in “Surface and Colour. Painting in the seventies in Barcelona”, at the MACBA, Barcelona.

1999 
Exhibition “Tempo 1995-1998”, at the Santa Mònica Art Centre in Barcelona.

2000 
Professorship in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts by the University of Barcelona.Reticles and screens that expand and withdraw, deconstructing the two-dimensional nature of the painting. Long and intense periods of assessment of work on paper.

2002
Takes part in“Els límits de la percepció” at the Joan Miró Fundation, Barcelona.

2004
“Tiempo sobre Tiempo (Time on Time) 1997-2003”, at the Caja de Burgos Art Centre, CAB Burgos.

2005
“Prospective 1973-2003”, at the Tecla Sala Metropolitan Cultural Centre of l’Hospitalet, Barcelona and the Caixa de Tarragona Foundation in Tarragona. First exhibition to review the three decades of this pictorial career.
“Joaquim Chancho, un clàssic contemporani. 35 anys de dibuixos i pintures” at the Museu de Montserrat. An exhibition that traces the relationship between the early small formats drawings and large scale paintings from the first decade of 2000.

2009
“Joaquim Chancho, dibuixos de paret” in the Museu de Pintura de Sant Pol de Mar. Drawings that will be erased once the exhibition is over, in response to the need to reiterate the provisionality of all our acts… zig-zag drawings like rays of flashes of lightening, the hours and the days that are temporary and ephemeral.
 
2010
Towards the end of the nineties he concentrates his paintings in the studio of El Pla de Santa Maria, en Tarragona. The isolation and intensity of the painting process reaffirms the conceptual aspects of his paints during these last few years.
“Seqüències 2006-2009” in theVolart2 space of Fundació Vila Casas of Barcelona, presents a series of larges format paintings and drawings.

2011
“Joaquim Chancho. Al llindar de la geometria. 1969-2010” Casal Solleric, Palma. A retrospective tracing the last 40 years of drawings and paintings.

2013
Publication of the monograph “Movements of Painting” by Viena Editions and the Provincial Government of Tarragona

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2019
With White and Black. 1972 – 2017. Ana Mas Projects, L’Hospitalet. Images

2018
Touch. Sis Gallery, Sabadell. Images
Monet Series. Marita Segovia Gallery, Madrid.

2017
Paintings 2002 – 2005. Galerie Floss und Schultz, Cologne, Germany.

2016
Paintings. Artlife Space Gallery Shanghai, China.

2015
Dibuixos i Pintures. Galeria Dieu, Cadaqués.
Gravats i dibuixos . Galeria Fort, Cadaqués.
Drawingsand Paintings. Marita Segovia Gallery, Madrid
Tempera on paper . Galerie Floss und Schultz, Cologne, Germany.

2014
Estampes. Museu de Montserrat, Montserrat.
Dibuixa una línia i segueix-la. Centre Cultural Metropolità Tecla Sala, l’Hospitalet, Barcelona. Images

2013
Joaquim Chancho a les col·leccions de Tarragona. MAMT, Tarragona.
Pintat al Pla. Museu de Valls, Tarragona.
Estampes. Sèries numèriques. CERAP, Riudoms, Tarragona.
160 dibuixos. Facultat Belles Arts. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona.

2012
Barres i estrelles. Galeria Eude, Barcelona.
Deixeu-me tancar la finestra. Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona.

2010
Joaquim Chancho, Al llindar de la geometria 1969-2010. Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca.
Seqüències 2006-2009. Espai volart 2. Fundació Vila Casas, Barcelona.
Teoría de las señales. Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Catalunya, Barcelona.

2009
Joaquim Chancho, dibuixos de paret. Museu de Pintura de Sant Pol de Mar.

2008
Pintures 2005-2006. Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca.
Pintura recent. Michael Dunev Art Projects, Torroella de Montgrí, Girona.
Pintures i dibuixos. Can Mora de Dalt, Sant Vicenç de Montalt, Barcelona.

2007
Pintures sobre paper. Espai 2nou2, Barcelona.
Pintures recents. Galeria Senda, Barcelona.
Pintures grans formats. Kutxa, Barcelona.
Obra gràfica. Galeria Eude, Barcelona.
Pinturas recientes. Galería Vanguardia, Bilbao.
Obra gráfica y dibujos. La Caja Negra, Madrid.

2006
Galerie Triangle Blue, Stavelot, Bélgica.
Pintura pintada. Haim Chanin Fine Art, New York.
Pintures i dibuixos. Galeria Cort, Banyoles, Girona.

2005
Prospectiva 1973-2003. Centre Cultural Metropolità Tecla Sala, l’Hospitalet, Barcelona i Caixa Tarragona, Tarragona.
Joaquim Chancho. Un clàssic contemporani, 35 anys de dibuixos i pintures. Museu de Montserrat, Montserrat.
7 papeles 7, Senda 2nou2, Barcelona.
Diàlegs encreuats. Museu Arxiu Tomàs Balvey, Cardedeu.
Galería Fernando Silió, Santander.

2004
Lisboa 2004. Galeria Bores & Mallo, Lisboa.
Pintures i dibuixos. Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca.
Tiempo sobre tiempo. 1997-2003. Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, CAB, Burgos.
Pintures i dibuixos. Michael Dunev Art Projects, Torroella de Montgrí, Girona.

2003
Galeria Senda, Barcelona.
Christian Dam Galleries, Oslo.

2002
Dibuixos 1969-1996. Espai 292, Barcelona.
Galeria Metta, Madrid.
Espai 21, Cambrils, Tarragona.
Haim-Chanin Fine Arts, New York.
Galeria Triangle Bleu, Stavelot, Bélgica.
Galeria Canem, Castelló.

2001
Galeria Senda, Barcelona.
Canals Galeria d’Art, Sant Cugat del Vallès.
14 x 28. Capella Sant Corneli, Cardedeu.
Galeria La Escalera, Cuenca.

1999
Tempo 1995-1998. Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona.

1997
Galeria Barcelona, Barcelona.

1996
Galeria Vives del Olmo, Palma de Mallorca.
Espai Moret, Reus.

1995
APC Galerie, Colonia.
Políptics. Museu d’Art Modern, Tarragona.
Teles i papers. Galeria Barcelona, Barcelona.

1993
One man show. Art Cologne. Galeria Barcelona, Colonia.

1992
Galeria Barcelona, Barcelona.

1990
Galeria Masha Prieto, Madrid.
Galeria Barcelona, Barcelona.
Espais Centre d’Art Contemporani, Girona.

1988
Galeria Theo, Barcelona.
Galeria Masha Prieto, Madrid.
CERAP. Riudoms, Tarragona.
Bur de Us. Escola Taller d’Art, Reus.
Sala de la Fundació Caixa de Barcelona, Tarragona.

1986
Galeria Ciento, Barcelona.

1985
Galeria Altaïr, Palma de Mallorca.

1984
Treballs de Taula. Galeria Ciento, Barcelona.
Treballs de Taula. Museu Morera, Lleida.

1982
Centre de Lectura, Reus.
Treballs de Taula. Escola Taller d’Art, Reus.

1980
Museu d’Art Contemporani, Eivissa.

1978
Galeria 3 i 5, Girona.
Galeria Ciento, Barcelona.

1977
Galeria 4 Gats, Palma de Mallorca.
Galeria Seny, Barcelona.
Galería Atenas, Zaragoza.

1976
Galeria 3 i 5, Girona.
Galeria René Métras, Barcelona.
Sala Tres, Acadèmia de Belles Arts, Sabadell.

1975
Galeria Artur Ramon, Barcelona.

1973
Galeria Nova, Barcelona.
Galeria 4 Gats, Palma de Mallorca.

1972
Galeria Pasqual Fort, Tarragona.

1971
Galeria Aquitània, Barcelona.

1966
Centre de Lectura, Reus.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS ( selection )

2017
4 Spanish Artist. Bernhard Knaus Fine Art. Frankfurt. Germany.
Bassat Collection. Contemporary Art. Lienzo Norte. Ávila.
Galerie Floss und Schultz zu Gast im Kunsthaus Rehau. Rehau. Germany.
The Underlying Shape. Galerie Floss und Schultz. Cologne, Germany.
Bassat Collection. Contemporary Art from Catalonia 1980-1989. Nau Gaudí. Matarò.
Painting Black. Museu Wilhelm Morger. Soest. Germany.
Solidaridades. Museo de la Solidaritad Salvador Allende de Chile. MACVAC. Vilafamès. Valencia.
Antonio Niebla, testimoni personal. La Rectoria Vella. Sant Celoni. Barcelona.

2016
The pattern reveals itself. Claudia Weil Galerie. Friedberg-Rinnenthal. Germany.
Bassat Collection. Contemporary Art from Catalonia 1940-1979. Centre Cultural Metropolità Tecla Sala. L’Hospitalet.
Black & White. Galerie Ulf Larsson, Cologne, Germany.
La maduresa del dibuix. Galeria Sicart. Vilafranca del Penedès.

2015
1950-1977 Del segon origen – Arts a Catalunya. Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona.
Present continu: Quaranta anys de la Galeria Cànem a Castelló. Sala Sant Miquel, Fundació Caixa Castello, Castelló.
El límit i l’infinit. La Rectoria vella i Galeria GBN, Sant Celoni, Barcelona.
Arbeiten auf papier. Galerie Ulf Larsson, Cologne, Germany.
Grafik Barcelona-Leipzig. Círculo del Arte, Barcelona.
Sommersalon 2015. Galerie Ulf Larsson, Cologne, Germany.

2014
Montserrat, opere maggiori dell’ Abbazia. Forte di Bard, Italy.
La raresa del sentiment. Galeria Joan Prats – Artgràfic, Barcelona.
Chancho i Niebla. Pintura i reflexió. 1970 – 1990, Galeria Barcelona, Barcelona.
Iceberg Z46. Galeria Trama, Barcelona.

2013
Strukturen. Galerie Ulf Larsson, Köln, Germany.
Born 2013. Igallery, Palma de Mallorca.
Lo parcial como significativo, Col.lecció Caja Burgos. Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid.
La muntanya de sal. Centre Cultural Metropolità Tecla Sala, l’Hospitalet, Barcelona.

2011
La raresa del sentiment. Galeria Joan Prats – Artgràfic, Barcelona.
Chancho i Niebla. Pintura i reflexió. 1970 – 1990, Galeria Barcelona, Barcelona.

2010
L’ombra de la parla, Col.lecció MACBA. National Museum of Contemporary Art of Korea, Seoul.

2009
Temps com a matèria. Col.lecció MACBA noves incorporacions. Macba, Barcelona.
Art d’avantguarda i contemporani. Museu de Montserrat, Montserrat.
Exposició inaugural Can Framis, Fundació Vila Casas, Barcelona.

2008
Col.lecció Josep Suñol 1970-2001. Fundació Suñol, Barcelona.

2007
La Sala Tres, 1972-1979. En la ruta de l’art alternatiu a Catalunya. Academia de Belles Artes, Sabadell.
Barcelone 1947-2007. Foundation Maeght, Saint Paul, France.
Catalunya Look. Art Center Berlin Friedrichstrasse, Berlin.
100 COVIB. Centre Cultural Can Gelabert, Binissalem. Torre de ses Puntes Manacor. Ses Voltes, Palma. Museu de Menorca, Maó.
Generació dels 60. Museu Jaume Morera, Lleida.

2006
Salas Temporales. Fundació Vila Casas. Palau Solterra. Torroella de Montgrí, Girona.
Drawing on the Wrong Side of the Brain. Haim Chanin Fine Arts. New York.
Diversidades Formales. La Colección (7). Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos. Burgos.

2005
Grandes dimensiones de Tristan Barbarà Editions, Galeria Hartmann, Barcelona.
Spain Revisited. Haim Chanin Fine Arts, New York.

2004
Visions del Desig. Galeria de la Riba, Cadaqués. Sala CAI Luzán, Zaragoza y Museu Abelló. Mollet del Vallès.
Colección Testimonio 2003-2004. Sala de Exposiciones Plaza Conde de Rodezno, Pamplona.

2003
L’informalisme a Catalunya i la seva evolució. Sala Moncunill. Terrassa, Galeria Barcelona, Barcelona.
Adquisiciones Arco 2003. Ayuntamiento de Pamplona. Teatro Gayarre, Pamplona.

2002
Els límits de la percepció. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona.
Col.lecció Testimoni. Centro Social y Cultural de la Fundació “la Caixa” Tarragona.

2000
Art de fi de segle. Fons d’Art, Olot. Itinerante por Barcelona, Madrid y Bilzen, Belgium.

1999
Els rastres de l’alfabet. Escriptura i art. Sala Girona de la Fundació “la Caixa”. Girona, Sala Tarragona de la Fundació “la Caixa”, Tarragona y Centre Cultural de la Fundació “la Caixa”, Granollers.

1998
II Trienal de Arte Gráfico. La estampa contemporánea. Palacio Revillagigedo, Gijón.
Els rastres de l’alfabet. Escriptura i art. Centre Cultural de la Fundació “la Caixa” Lleida.
Esencias 5. Colección Ernesto Ventós Omedes. Caja de Asturias, Centro Cultural Caja Sur, Oviedo.

1997
Superfície i color. Pintura dels setanta a Barcelona. MACBA, Barcelona.

1996
Essències. Colección Ernesto Ventós Omedes. Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona.

1995
La Dècada dels 80. Art contemporani a l’entorn de Reus. Museu Comarcal Centre de Lectura, Reus.
I Trienal de Arte Gráfico. Palacio Revillagigedo, Gijón.
Mediterrània. Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca.
Proposta per una col.lecció. MACBA, Barcelona.
Testimoni. Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca.

1994
Donaciones de obra gráfica a la Biblioteca Nacional. Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid.
Col.lecció Testimoni 93-94. Sala Sant Jaume de la Fundació “la Caixa” Barcelona.

1993
Artistes Catalans del Fons d’Art de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Madrid.
Gent d’Eina. Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona.

1992
Constants de l’Art Català Actual. Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona.
Hadengaagese Catralaanse Kunst. Di Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam.
Canosa, Chancho, Frangela, Vélez. Galeria Ciento, Barcelona.
Testimoni. Arte Español Contemporáneo. Església del Convent, Pollença.

1991
Constantes del Arte Catalán Actual. Museo Rufino Tamayo, México D.F.
Col.lecció Testimoni. Sala Sant Jaume de la Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona.
Benet Rossell-Joaquim Chancho. Petit Format. Galeria Made In, Barcelona.

1989
AmbBarcelona. Galeria Barcelona, Barcelona.
Generació dels anys 60. Galeria Barcelona, Barcelona.
Three Spanish Artists. Dubinsky Fine Arts, Zürich.

1987
L’Art Espanyol en la col.lecció de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions. Centre Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona.
Col.leccionistes d’Art a Catalunya. Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona.
Els seixantes i els setantes a la col.lecció Tous-de Pedro. Museu d’Art, Sabadell.
5è Aniversari. Galeria Altaïr, Palma de Mallorca.

1986
Pintar en papel. Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid.
Proposta per una col.lecció. Galeria Theo, Barcelona and València.
Negro sobre blanco. Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona.

1984
Artistes de Reus. Exposició itinerant, Països Catalans.
10 Anys 11 Artistes. Galeria Ciento, Barcelona.

1983
El papel en Barcelona. Galeria Ciento, Barcelona.
El Gravat de Creació. Centre Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona.

1979
Amnistia Uruguay. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona.
Plástica Catalana. Generación de los 60. Colegio de Arquitectos, Tenerife.
Sixt British International Print Bienal. Bradford.
Màteria. Galeria René Metràs, Barcelona.

1977
Museu Internacional de la Resistència Salvador Allende. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona.
Nadal al soterrani. Metro Plaça de Catalunya, Barcelona.

1976
Amnistia i Drets Humans. Col.legi d’Arquitectes, Barcelona.
Pintura I. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona.

1975
I Biennal de Pintura Contemporània. Caixa de Barcelona, Barcelona.
I Exposición Becarios Artes Plásticas. Fundación Juan March, Madrid.

1973
Mostra Art Nou 73. Homenatge a Joan Miró, Barcelona.
15 Katalanische Maler. Mannheim, Heppeheim, Hedelberg. Germany.
Panorama en Barcelona. Galería Barocco, Madrid.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND MUSEUMS
Ajuntament de Palma. España
Biblioteca Nacional. Madrid, España
Centre de Lectura. Reus, España
Centro de Arte Caja Burgos. CAB. Burgos, España
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España
Col.lecció Fundació “la Caixa”. Barcelona, España
Col.lecció Testimoni de “la Caixa”. Barcelona, España
Comunidad de Madrid. Madrid, España
Fundació Banc de Sabadell. Barcelona, España
Fundació Caixa de Catalunya. Barcelona, España
Fundació Caixa Girona. Girona, España
Fundación Juan March. Madrid, España
Fundació Suñol. Barcelona, España
Fundació Vila Casas. Barcelona, España
MACBA. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. España
Museu de Pamplona. Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, España
Museu de Arte Contemporáneo. Patio Herreriano Valladolid, España
Museu de Montserrat. España
Museu d’Art i Història. Reus, España
Museu d’Art Modern. MAMT. Tarragona, España
Museu de Valls. Tarragona, España
Museu de Villafamés. Castelló, España
Museu d’Historia de l’Hospitalet. España
The Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry. Miami, U.S.A..
Stedelijk Museum,. Ámsterdam, Holanda
Universitat de Barcelona. España
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Tarragona, España

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 BARDAGIL, Miquel
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 BONET, Juan Manuel
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 1995, Tarragona.
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 FRISACH, Montse
-Entrevista Joaquim Chancho. Avui, october 31th 2007, Barcelona.

 GARCÍA, Josep Miquel
–La pintura que encara  pinta. Exhibition catalogue Fundació Caixa de Barcelona, 1988, Tarragona.
–Constants de l’Art Català Actual. Exhibition catalogue Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, 1991, Barcelona.

 GIRALT MIRACLE, Daniel
–Chancho. Exhibition catalogue Galeria 3 i 5, 1976, Girona.
–La escritura caligráfica de Joaquim Chancho. Batik, number 23, march 1976 and Guadalimar,  june 1976, Madrid.

 GIRÓ, Pilar
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 GONZÁLEZ, Enrique
-Joaquim Chancho, el arte del tiempo. Grabado y Edición. September 2007, Madrid.

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–El text pictòric. Texto para la exposición “Treballs de Taula”. Galeria Ciento, 1984, Barcelona.

 HALEVI, Gabriel
-Joaquim Chancho, un pintor. Exhibition catalogue Galeria Senda, 2003, Barcelona.

 MARÍ, Antoni
–Ni principi ni fi. Exhibition catalogue “Joaquim Chancho Al llindar de la geometria,” 2010-2011, Casal Solleric, Palma.

 MARTÍ CASTELL, Joan
-Obres políptiques des de l’any 1976 fins al 1990. Exhibition catalogue Museu d’Art Modern, 1995, Tarragona.

 MASSOT, Josep
–La geometría que emociona. Vidas Contadas, La Vanguardia, january 24th 2005, Barcelona.

 MITRANI, Alex
–Joaquim Chancho a Montserrat. Aprendre el temps. Serra d’Or, july-august 2005, Montserrat.

 MOLINA GONZÁLEZ, José Luís
-Caligrafía de la razón: Joaquim Chancho. Laboratorio del Arte number 20, 2007, Universidad de Sevilla.

 MOLINS NUBIOLA, Miquel
–Llenguatge i silenci. Exhibition catalogue “Prospectiva 1973-2003”, Centre Cultural Metropolità Tecla Sala, 2005,  l’Hospitalet, Barcelona.

 MORENO GALVÁN, José María
-Texte presentació del llibre “A”. Escuela Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, 1974, Barcelona.

 MOURE, Gloria
–Joaquim Chancho, entre el gesto y la geometría. Batik, number 42, may-june 1978, Barcelona.

 MUNNÉ, Antoni
–La belleza de lo esencial. El País, may 5th 1984, Barcelona.

 NAVARRO, Mariano
-Joaquim Chancho. La pintura por hacer. Exhibition catalogue “Tiempo sobre tiempo” (1997-2003), CAB, 2004, Burgos.

 OLIVER, Conxita
–Joaquim Chancho. Exhibition catalogue “Arte fin de siglo”, Fondo de Arte Olot, january 2000, Barcelona.
-Pintura i fotografia: concordança de mirades. Exhibition catalogue “Diàlegs encreuats”, Museu Arxiu Tomàs Balvey,  2005, Cardedeu.

 PASTÓ, Cristina
-La paret dibuixada. Exhibition catalogue “Joaquim Chancho, dibuixos de paret” Museu de Pintura de Sant Pol de Mar,  2009, Sant Pol de Mar.

 PERERA, Marga
–Joaquim Chancho, repensar la pintura i la vida. Exhibition catalogue Galeria Cort, 2006, Banyoles.

 PUIG, Arnau
–Les silencioses construccions de Chancho. Exhibition catalogue “Joaquim Chancho, pintures i dibuixos” Sala Pelaires,  2004, Palma.

 PUJALS, Joan M.
-Joaquim Chancho i la pintura de la incertesa. Seqüències d’Art. Viena edicions, 2006, Barcelona.

 QUERALT, Rosa
-Chancho. Triunfo, number 908, june 21 th 1980, Madrid.
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 RIBAL, Pilar
–Joaquim Chancho: Aquest llenç inesperat. Exhibition catalogue “Joaquim Chancho Al llindar de la geometria”, Casal  Solleric, 2010-2011, Palma.

 ROMA, Valentí
–Entre la revisió i el mètode: vers una ciència de la pintura. Exhibition catalogue “Superfície i Color. Pintura dels setanta  a Barcelona”. MACBA, 1997-1998, Barcelona.

 RONTE, Dieter
–Joaquim Chancho o la recerca d’un altre món. Exhibition catalogue “Joaquim Chancho Al llindar de la geometria”,
 Casal Solleric, 2010-2011, Palma.

 ROSÉS, Assumpta
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 SALUDES, Isabel
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–Impregnacions cromàtiques. Serra d’Or, number 343, may 1988, Montserrat.
–L’acte de pintar. Serra d’Or, number 364, april 1990, Montserrat.

 SÁNCHEZ – FRIERA, Raquel
–Retrospectiva de Joaquim Chancho en la Fundación Caixa de Tarragona. Encuentros, Diari de Tarragona. may 28th  2005, Tarragona.

 SÁNCHEZ ROBAYNA, Andrés
–Joaquim Chancho y el espacio del signo. Destino, number 215, january 1979, Barcelona.
–Lectura de Joaquim Chancho. Escandalar, number 6, april-june 1979, New York. PDF
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 SANTOS TORROELLA, Rafael
–Los de “los 60”. Exhibition catalogue “La generación de los 60”. Galeria Barcelona, 1989, Barcelona.

 SENDRA, Joan. NOMEN, Antoni
-Les arts plàstiques al Baix Camp. Canigó número 399, may 31th 1975, Barcelona.

SOLER, Josep Maria
–Una reflexió “benedictina” sobre la pintura de Joaquim Chancho, “Joaquim Chancho, un clàssic  contemporani”.
 Kàl.lista 1, Museu de Montserrat y Banc de Sabadell, 2005.

 VIDAL, Jaume
-Elipsis pictórica. Babelia, El País, june 2nd 2001, Madrid.

 VIDAL, Mercè. SUÁREZ,  Alicia
-Serra d’Or, number 225, june 15th 1978, Montserrat.

 VILÀ, Antònia
–Les livres du Joaquim Chancho. Ligature, number 2, november 2012, Granville, France. PDF

 ZALBIDEA, Víctor
-Entrevista con Joaquim Chancho. Tropos, number 7-8, 1973, Madrid.

Textos de l’artista

–Notes. Exhibition catalogue “Políptics 1975-1990” Museu d’Art Modern, 1995, Tarragona.
–Vent. Exhibition catalogue “Tempo 1995-1998”, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, 1999, Barcelona.
-Converses entre Joaquim Chancho i Teresa Blanch. Exhibition catalogue “Prospectiva 1973 – 2003″, Centre Cultural
 Metropolità Tecla Sala, 2005, l’Hospitalet, Barcelona.
-12 textos inèdits seleccionats i seqüenciats per Teresa Blanch, “Joaquim Chancho, un clàssic contemporani”.    Kàl.lista 1, Museu de Montserrat y Banc de Sabadell, 2005.
-SIS. Exhibition catalogue “Joaquim Chancho, pintures 2005-2006”, Sala Pelaires, 2008, Palma.
-Teoría de las señales. Libro de bibliófilo con nueve aguafuertes. Tristan Barbarà Editor, 2009, Barcelona.

Source:

https://www.invaluable.com/artist/chancho-joaquin-5dgkote5q6/sold-at-auction-prices/

Perez Art Museum PAMM

Rafael Canoga

Born 1935 in Toledo, Spain. Lives and works in Madrid.

After the Spanish Civil War and a period of transition, Rafael Canogar and his family took up residence in Madrid in 1944. He began his training with painter Daniel Vázquez Díaz, with whom he mastered a figurative language inspired by the work of Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. In 1954 Canogar began to experiment with abstraction and informalism, motivated by Michel Tapié’s call for a collective art phenomenon. His canvases, increasingly monochromatic, sought to achieve a balance between form and matter, between formal and informal painting. Within this trajectory he formed the group El Paso (1957–1960) alongside Luis Feito, Manolo Millares, Manuel Rivera and Antonio Saura among others, which ushered in a key phase in the modernisation of the Spanish avant-garde. Following a trip to the USA in the early 1960s, and a peak in his international recognition in 1964, Canogar abandoned informalism, which had become assimilated by Francisco Franco’s regime as ‘official’ art.

The Punishment 1969 typifies a key aspect of Rafael Canogar’s practice from the 1960s. Owning the vocabulary of narrative figuration, which had begun to spread among the Spanish avant-garde of the time, his work invoked the aesthetics of commercial culture and of the mass media. Yet, in contrast with his contemporaries (including Equipo Crónica and Equipo Realidad), his subjects did not exist within an iconographic superstructure, but were deeply rooted in social realities. Using wood and polyester reinforced fibreglass, Canogar escaped the boundaries of the canvas adding three-dimensionality, volume and flesh to his figures. The Punishment represents a man being beaten by a policeman, which would not have been an unfamiliar scene in the late 1960s. The disturbing vignette, which physically invades the viewer’s domain, was interpreted as a wakeup call to engage with the social unrest that defined those turbulent years in Francoist Spain.

Sofia Gotti
September 2015

“It’s part of my landscape, the earth ploughed by the worker, who ploughs, leaving his mark on the earth.”

Canogar began his training as a young man with painter Daniel Vázquez Díaz inspired by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. In 1954 Canogar began to experiment with abstraction and informalism, looking at the material itself as a form of expression. Canogar applied paint directly on to the canvas then filling the scratches and furrows he made with his hands with liquid paint.

His canvases, increasingly monochromatic, sought to achieve a balance between form and matter, between formal and informal painting. Canogar formed the El Paso group (1957–1960) alongside Manuel Rivera and Antonio Saura among others. Influenced by Action painting the Spanish artists sought an informal aesthetic produced with a sense of passion and urgency which celebrated the freedom of the opening of Franco’s Spain to the international scene.  

Following a trip to the USA in the early 1960s Canogar begun a second figurative period. Using a vocabulary of narrative, socio-political mass media imagery such as police brutality and the assassination of JFK, his paintings were visually comparable with Rauschenberg’s iconic photo collage screen-prints but with an added ethical and critical dimension that Canogar describes as ‘Realism’ rather than classic American Pop. 

In 1967 his work evolved further; using wood, polyester and fiberglass he broke down the barriers of painting and sculpture pushing into 3 dimensions disturbing the physical space of the viewer. 

Retrospectives were held at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, 2003, the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), Valencia, 2013 and Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid in 2001. More recently his work was included in the 

2014 Tate Modern exhibition ‘The World Goes Pop’. Rafael Canogar currently lives and works in Madrid.

Timeline
1944
Moves frorm Toledo to Madrid to study Art.
1955
Begins his abstract period.
1957
Takes part in Grupo el Paso with Feito, Millares and Saura among others.
1967
Leaves abstract period for Pop art.
1975
Begins his geometrical period.

Exhibitions
2001
Galería 3punts “Recuperar la memoria”, Barcelona
1998
Galería Antonio Prates, Lisboa. Atlántica. Centro de Arte. La Coruña
1997
Sala García Castañón de la Caja Pamplona. “Canogar, la pasión de pintar, 1956-1997”. Centro cultural Casa del Cordon, Caja de Burgos, Burgos. Galería Regarde Sur L´lmage, Burdeos
1996
Galería Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, La Coruna
1995
Galería Barcelona, Barcelona. “Art Colgne 95”, (individual en la Galería Barcelona). Sala Robayera, Miengo, Cantabria
1994
“O Novo Canogar”, Salas del Auditorio de Galicia en el museo del “Pobo Galego”. Galería Punto, Valencia. Sala de exposiciones del Banco Zaragozano, Zaragoza
1993
Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Alemania. Galería Italia, Alicante.
1992
Caja Provincial de Ahorros de Córdoba, Córdoba
1991
“Obra Gráfica 1959-1990”, Antigua Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca. “Obra Gráfica 1959-1990”, Diputación Provincial de Málaga, Málaga. Galleria Arte 92 ( 1957-1964). Milan
1991
Galería Barcelona, Barcelona. Studio Benniamino, San Remo, Italia. Galería Bat, Madrid. “Obra Gráfica 1959-1990”. Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela. Galería Cadaqués, Gerona
1990
Galerie TH, Lyon, Francia. “Obra Gráfica 1959-1990”. Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao (exp retrospectiva). Galería Afinsa-Trindade, Oporto. Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna, Palazzo Dei. Diamanti, Ferrara, Italia (exposición retrospectiva). Galerie lina Davidov, Paris
1989
Galería Tretze, Castellón. Galería Italia, Alicante
1988
“Contraparada”, Palacio de Almudi, Murcia (exposición retrospectiva). Galería Punto, Valencia
1987
“Paris Art Center”, París (exposición retrospectiva 1949-87). Bochun Museum, Alemania (exposición retrospectiva 1949-87).
1986
Centro Municipal de Cultura de Alcoi, Alicante (exposición antológica).
1985
Galería Bronda, Helsinki. Galería Gaspar, Barcelona. Galerie Poli, Berlin

Souce:

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/world-goes-pop/artist-biography/rafael-canogar

https://www.mayorgallery.com/artists/231-rafael-canogar/

Perez Art Museum PAMM

Jordi Alcaraz, masters of pictorial abstraction

Jordi Alcaraz (b. 1963 Barcelona, Spain) is a celebrated contemporary Spanish artist whose profoundly poetic works so impressed the critical audience in his recent U.S. debut that his major recent inaugural exhibition was cited as one of the ten best museum shows in Southern California. His work has been equally celebrated throughout Europe. Alcaraz’s art transcends the categories of paintings, sculptures and drawings as they blend all media, employing assemblage-like manner and installation. Conceptually, he extends notions of perspective utilizing various tools and materials like an alchemist. Through the use of bending, tearing and puncturing materials in unpredictable ways, Alcaraz creates realms as ambiguous as those of his Catalonian antecedents, such as Miró, Dali and Tàpies. The leading Spanish art critic Mariano Navarro describes Alcaraz’s works as “an extraordinary metaphor of the practice of art . . . that I dare define as philosophical . . . carriers of a singular poetry.”

Alcaraz’s discourse stems from the classical tradition of painting and sculpture, arriving to a reflection on volume, language and time through the use of materials, such as water, glass, mirrors, reflections, or books that include this idea.

In his artistic language the visual transgression predominates, a playful dynamic among many different gazes and the combination of transparencies and holes that allow a glimpse of hidden, magical spaces. Thus Jordi Alcaraz establishes, through his works, an unprecedented, surprising and metaphorical relationship with the world.

Sculptures, paintings and drawings, always through his peculiar treatment of materials, and his poetic word games and unexpected titles. Sets of pigment bags that sink into glass surfaces, poetically showing the beginning of the painting, wooden sculptures that pierce the acrylic urn in which they are in, passing from the darkness of the night to the light of day, colors that flee from their cans through imaginary holes, impossible portraits.

Due to his obsession with the craft of art, in his works he delves into the almost obsessive exploration of the artist’s work: drawing, sculpting, painting …, focusing rather in the exercise of doing, than in the works as the completion of an action. As a result, absence seems to be more relevant than evidence in the works. The absence of almost everything, and the utmost importance to the disappearance of the work, with the permanence of the action. What matters is the sensation of drawing, what is there at the precise moment before doing it, the impression at the end, but not the work itself, not the resulting drawing. There is no image or reference to any idea, the artist draws but there is no drawing left. We can see the space that has been left, the trace of the material used, but the absence of anything else is almost absolute.

Jordi Alcaraz breaks the material in different ways, everything is less evocative and more poignant. Layers of materials are superimposed as protective shields, and they build diverse and more complex layers of meaning.

His works can be found in collections such as Biedermann Museum, Donaueschingen (Germany), Colección Fontanal Cisneros, Miami; Williams Collection, Massachusetts; Olor Visual, Barcelona; or Fundación Banco Sabadell.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1986 Espai 83, Museu de Sabadell, Barcelona
1990 Galeria Calellart, Calella, Barcelona
1991 Galeria Brita Prinz, Madrid
Galeria Mainel, Burgos
1992 Galeria Negre, Sabadell, Barcelona
1993 Galeria Joan Prats-Artgràfic, Barcelona
1994 Galeria Carl Van der Voort, Eivissa
Galeria Lluís Heras, Palafrugell, Girona
1995 Galeria Cànem, Castelló
Galeria Joan Prats-Artgràfic, Barcelona
1996 New Art, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
1997 Galeria Joseph Gichin, Palafrugell, Girona
1998 Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
1999 Museu de Pintura de Sant Pol de Mar, Barcelona
Galeria Carl Van der Voort, Eivissa
Galeria Fúcares, Madrid
2000 Sala Municipal d’Exposicions, Pineda de Mar, Barcelona
Galeria Trinta, Santiago de Compostela
2001 Galeria Joan Prats-Artgràfic, Barcelona
Galeria Cànem, Castelló
2002 Galeria Carl Van der Voort, Eivissa
Galeria Fúcares, Almagro, Ciudad Real
Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
2003 Galeria Vértice, Oviedo
Galeria Joan Prats-Artgràfic, Barcelona
2004 Galeria Altxerri, San Sebastián
Galeria Nieves Fernández, Madrid
Sala Pelaires, Mallorca.
“Reinventing La Boîte en Valise,” Homenaje a Marcel Duchamp.
2006 Centre Cultural Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
Galeria Joan Prats-Artgràfic, Barcelona
2007 Galeria Vértice, Oviedo
Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
2008 Galerie Stefan Ropke, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
Sala Tecla, Barcelona, Spain
Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
2009 Galeria Miquel Alzueta, Casavells, Girona
Galeria Joan Prats-ArtGraphic, Barcelona, Spain
“Cherchez la femme Galeria,” Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
2010 Galerie Stefan Ropke, Cologne, Germany
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, United States
Galeria Torbandena, Trieste, Italy
2011 Galerie Haas, Zurich, Switzerland
Nicolas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Galeria Pelaires, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
“Framing Abstraction,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
2012 Tomlinson Kong Contemporary, New York City, United States
Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, Spain
Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Zona Maco, Mexico, Galerie Stefan Röpke
Volta8 Basel, Galerie Stefan Röpke
2013 Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelone
“jordi alcaraz ALTERED STATES,” Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2014 “Jordi Alcaraz: one-man-show,” Galleria Torbandena, Trieste, Italy

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1985 Galeria La Main, Brusselles
1986-88 Drukgrafic H. Kätelhöm, Wamel, Alemanya
1987 Instituto Centrale di Grafica, Latina, Itàlia
1989 Galeria Brita Prinz, Madrid
Galeria Mainel, Burgos
1990 Malaespina Printmakers Society, Canadà
1991 Seleccionat a la Triennal de Grenchen, Suïssa
1992 Galeria Negre. Sabadell, Barcelona
1993 Bibliofília Transformista, Barcelona
1994 ARCO, Polígrafa
1994-01 Galeria Carl Van der Voort, Eivissa
1995 Galeria Astarté, Madrid
1996 55 Minuts, Museu Comarcal del Maresme, Mataró.
Homenatge A Federico García Lorca, Palafrugell.
Múltiples, Galeria Joan Prats-Artgràfic, Barcelona
1997 ARCO, Galeries Joan Prats, Polígrafa i Carl Van der Voort
Art Frankfurt, Galeria Carl Van der Voort
1998 ARCO, Galeries Joan Prats i Carl Van der Voort
Galeria Astarté, Madrid
Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid
1999 ARCO, Galeries Joan Prats, Fúcares i Carl Van der Voort
Tránsito. Toledo
Galeria Trinta, Santiago de Compostela
2000 ARCO, Galeries Joan Prats, Fúcares i Carl Van der Voort
Cabinete de Dibujos, Galeria Fúcares, Almagro.
Art Chicago, Galeria Fúcares
Homenatge A Joan Brossa, Fundació Llorenç Artigas.
Museu de la Joguina, Figueres. Girona
Art Cologne, Alemanya, Galeria Joan Prats
De Blanco, Vacios y Silencios, Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid
2001 ARCO, Galeries Joan Prats, Fúcares i Carl Van der Voort
Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona
De Blancos, Vacíos Y Silencios, Fundación Telefónica.
Global Art Surce, Zurich, Suïssa
Art Chicago, Galeria Carl Van der Voort i Galeria Trinta
Biblioteca, Galeria Calellart, Calella, Barcelona
Feria de Arte Cáceres, Galeria Joan Prats
Art Cologne, Alemanya, Galeria Joan Prats
2002 Art Chicago, Galeria Carl Van der Voort
ARCO, Galeries Joan Prats i Carl Van der Voort
Fira d’Art de Miami, Galeria Carl Van der Voort
Espacio Líquido, Gijón
Artesantander, Galeria Fúcares, Madrid
Art Lisboa, Galeria Vértice, Oviedo
Edición Madrid, Galeria Astarté, Madrid
2003 Galeria Vertice. Oviedo
Chicago Art Gallery, Carl Van der Voort
Lisbon Art Gallery, Vertex
Son Gallery Space Pals. Girona
ARCO, Galeria Joan Prats and Carl Van der Voort
Art and nature, Madrid
Painting Museum of San Pol de Mar, Barcelona
2004 ARCO, Galeria Joan Prats i Carl Van der Voort
La Sombra. Arte y Naturaleza, Madrid
Espais, Centre d’Art Contemporani, Girona
Art Basel, Polígrafa, Suïssa
Sala Pelaires, Mallorca
Art Lisboa, Galeria Vértice, Oviedo
Art Cologne, Galeria Nieves Fernández, Madrid
2005 ARCO, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
Art Lisboa, Galeria Vértice, Oviedo
Artesantander, Galeria Vértice, Oviedo
La Bote en Valise, Homenatge a Duchamp, Galeria Nieves Fernández. Madrid
2006 ARCO, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
Art París, Galeria Nieves Fernández, Madrid
Toronto International Art Fair, Caroline Dimnik Contemporary Paris, Canadà
Galeria Vértice, Oviedo
Fundación Eugenio Granell, Santiago de Compostela
2007 ARCO, Galeria Joan Prats
Art Cologne, Alemanya, Galeria Nieves Fernández
Madrid i Sala Pelaires. Palma de Mallorca
Feria de Corea, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
Visualkultur.Cat, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
Artesantander, Galeria Vértice, Oviedo
Art Lisboa, Galeria Vértice, Oviedo
Preview 2008 Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
2008 Fiera Bologna, Italy, Pelaires Gallery, Palma de Mallorca
ARCO, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
Pulse New York, Galerie Stefan Röpke. Cologne
Art Cologne, Gallery Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
Art Chicago Gallery Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
2009 Cherchez la femme, Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
Modern and Contemporary Works, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Noi cari amici, Galleria Torbandena, Trieste
Fiera Bologna, Italy, Pelaires Gallery, Palma de Mallorca
Gallery Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
ARCO, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
Gallery Moths and Röpke, Madrid
Pulse New York, Galerie Stefan Röpke. Cologne
Art Chicago Gallery Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
Art Basel, Suisse, Editions polygraph, Barcelona
Pelaires. Palma de Mallorca
Vertex Gallery, Oviedo
Pulse Miami, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
Miami Basel, polygraph graphic work, Barcelona
2010 Orchestra Unleashed, El Portal Theatre, North Hollywood
Espacio Atlantico, Vigo Gallery, Vertice, Oviedo
Fiera Bologna, Italy, Pelaires Gallery, Palma de Mallorca and
Gallery Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
Open, Zoya Museum, Modra, Slovak Republic
Pulse New York, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
Chicago Art Gallery, Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
Art Basel. Polygraph graphic work, Barcelona
Santander Art Gallery, Vertice, Oviedo
Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
Lisbon Art Gallery, Vertice, Oviedo
Liaisons, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona
Galerie Anais Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, California
2011 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Torbandena Gellry, Trieste, Italy
ARCO, John Prats, Barcelona, Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
Gallery Pelaires Palma de Mallorca
LA Art Show, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, LA
Some Assembly Required, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, LA
Pulse New York, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
Boxes Gallery, BAT, Madrid
Torbandena Gallery, Trieste, Italy
2012 “Spain”, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
Houston Fine Art Fair, Texas
“LINE SPACE COLOR GESTURE,” Site/109, New York, NY
“Out of the Racks: Not-Recent Acquisitions,” Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
“The Art of Summer: Contemporary & Modern Works, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los
Angeles
2013 Nuage, Musee Reattu de Arles, Arles, France.
“ABSTRAKT,” Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
“ABSTRAKT,” Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
2014 “A Book Between Two Stools,” Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels,
Belguim
2015 “Collectible: Contemporary and Modern Works,” Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los
Angeles

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1984 De tres a set. Poesies de Federico García-Durán
1985 Articulació del goig. Poesies de David Serra i pròleg de Carles Miralles
1986 Papers secants. Poesia de Perejaume
1987 Bestiari mòbil. Text de Joaquim Sala-Sanahuja
1989 Diorames. Amb Joan Brossa, Alfons Borrell, Perejaume i Jordi Rosés
1992 El Viatge a Tokushima. Text de Joaquim Sala-Sanahuja
1993 Trasllat. Joan Brossa i Alfons Borrell
2010 Jordi Alcaraz Dibuixos, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Art Review: Jordi Alcaraz at Jack Rutberg, by Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times
Culture Monster, September 14, 2010.
“Jordi Alcaraz: Traslucido at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts,” Art Ltd., by Eve Wood,
November – December 2010
“Ritts Shot Celebrities’ Spirit, Surrealism Beneath Surface,” Larchmont Chronicle, by
Joe Ward, November 2010
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2011 “Some Assembly Required: Assemblage and Collage at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los
Angeles,” It’s Liquid, March 29, 2011
“Some Assemby Required – Assemblage & Collage Show Extended,” Artfix Daily,
April 2011
“Framing Abstraction: Mark, Symbol, Signifier,” Fabrik, by Peter Frank, April 2011
2012 “Jordi Alcaraz,” Art News, by Anette M. Rose-Shapiro, October 2012
2013 “In Strapped Spain, Buyers are the Hot Item,” The Wall Street Journal, by Ellen
Gamerman, January 2013
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October 21, 2013
“Moira Cue Reviews Forrest Bess, Jordi Alcaraz, Salvador Dali,” The Hollywood
Sentinel, November 2013
“Jordi Alcaraz: Altered States,” Artscene, by Shirle Gottlieb, November 2013

Source:

https://jackrutbergfinearts.com/artists/alcaraz.html

Jordi Alcaraz

Perez Art Museum PAMM

“Crossing Cultures & Cities” Exhibition

WHAT: Opening a Contemporary Art Exhibition “Crossing Cultures & Cities”
WHEN: July 7, 2023 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
WHO: “The Bright Foundation & Hispafest” and the “Dirección de Cultura Dominicana
en el Exterior New York.
WHERE: 2406 Amsterdam Avenue, 4th floor, New York, NY. 10033

“Crossing Cultures & Cities”: A Vibrant Contemporary Art Exhibition Unveiling Miami Talent in New York.
New York City, NY – [June 28] – Experience a captivating artistic interchange at Crossing Cultures & Cities”, a highly anticipated art exhibition in New York.
Organized by Nubia Abaji, “Director of The Bright Foundation & Hispafest” that will be held in the “Directorate of The Dominican Republic Abroad NY”, both organizations in charge of promote culture through difference expressions of Art. this exhibition showcases diverse Miami based artists immigrants from Argentine, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Germany, Iran, Italy, Paraguay, Peru, Russ, Spain, Venezuela. From July 7th to July 31st, immerse yourself in contemporary artworks spanning painting, photography, sculpture, installations and more. Witness live artist performances that bring the creative process to life.

Join us for the grand opening.
About The Bright Foundation & Hispafest:
The Bright Foundation & Hispafest is a 501c3 Miami based Art organization to promotes cultural exchange, artistic development, and national and international collaboration. Through exhibitions, festivals, and educational programs, they connect artists and audiences, fostering understanding and appreciation of global cultures.

Free entry to the public “Crossing Cultures & Cities” features an exceptional lineup of artists, including:
Alessandra Sequeira @alessandrasequeira_
Ilieana Rincón-Cañas @Ilerinconcanas
Isaac Bencid @isaacbencid.art
Luis Altieri @altieriluis
Maria Ortega @mariaortegagalvez
Michele Janata @michele.janata
Nathalia Delgado Nachtigall @azulartworld
Rafael Montilla @rafaelmontillaart
Rebecca Setareh @artofrebecca
Sady Pineda @sadypinedastudio
Tatiana Zayseva @tzvisualartist
Valeria Montag @montagvaleria
Vicente Fabre @vicenrefabreart
And the performances of:
Kube Man @kubemanart
Mariana Montag and Valeria Montag. @mamamontag

Artists selection:
Nubia Abaji @nubiaabaji
Each artist brings their unique style and perspective, contributing to the rich
tapestry of the exhibition. We will waiting for you.

For more information:
The Bright Foundation & Hispafest
Nubia Abaji, Director
Tel: 9548041752 whatsapp or text message only
Email: [email protected]
Dirección de Cultura Dominicana en el exterior NY
Rey Andujar, Cultural Liaison
Tel: 646-370-5478

Perez Art Museum PAMM