io Casino
Fine Art
A BIOGRAPHY
Ever
since I was able to hold a pencil properly I have devoted myself to
transcribing life around me into graphics. My father was a builder and
contributed greatly to my grasping
drawing lines and understanding technical plans. His architectural
studio was to be my first workshop where thought was tantamount with
drawing.
Creative help was at hand, too, from my grandmother Megar, who had a degree in Fine Arts and managed the Jaimes Art Gallery in Paseo de Gracia in Barcelona. I helped
her to hang exhibitions and also, she took me along to visit
antiquarians related to her business as an art merchant, thus acquiring
a solid bagagge of names, styles and manifestos. My vision of that
world enlarged thanks to our talks about the masters, the art scene and
reproduction techniques.
At the end of
the 70s I spent my summers in Breda, Gerona, at J.Puiggali's, my
grandfather, lending a hand in his museum-shop "BredArt" which housed
the most relevant pieces of popular Spanish ceramics, Catalan antiques
and other art works.
During the 80s
my family joined the Grupo Z publishing team. In the afternoons, this
gave me access to the rooms where the artwork for their publications
was being done. At the time I spent my evenings attending fashion
parades, plays, concerts and comic presentations.
In the early 90s
I studied illustration and design at the Andorra la Vella Art School
and painting techniques in Sant Julia de Loria. In 1994 I enrolled at
the Escuela de Artes
y Oficios in Llotja Avinyo, Barcelona. It was then when I discovered my
path, when one book took me to another in my constant search around the
libraries: Biblioteca
Nacional de Cataluña, in Hospital Street, Barcelona, and in Andorra,
both at Sant Julià de Loria and the Government library.
In 1991 I begun
a series of notebooks, engravings and original drawings about human
faces and daily situations. My intellectual process is now conformed by
a kind
of laboratory of expression where colour, paintbrushes and paper are
vital. I have turned my own social life into an introspective analysis
of my personal experience.
Summers of 1994
and 1995 were spent at the workshop of master calcographer M. Viusà,
where I studied new and classical techniques.
"Pequeños Anuncios",
a series of visual poetry is born. It is my work in progress, a step by
step metamorphose which ended up as an installation at the Barcelona
Metronom having previously been presented with Joan Brossa in
Cornella. Within the same conceptual frame, "Poemas Electricos" and the
work in progress "Anuncios Sociales" were also born. Between 1997 and
2001 I investigated pictorial hiperrealism on images of "Pequeños
Museos", a series for specific venues.
Concomitantly I
joined the G.T.S. collective where I investigated at a professional
level. The task envolved overseas commitments related to research,
creation and curating
experimental music up to the year 2007. I organised shows,
among which were my own creation, in Europe, India and America
as well
as promoting my own records, projects and compilations.
As a sculptor I produced the series "Kaxinas" of an animistic nature between 1994 and 2014.
In 2014 I decided to devote myself to my domain plastic and visual
creation becomes rather in contact with the interior, meditative
abstraction, a result ripe, the fruit of decades of constant work that
will never stop.
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