Josep Garcia Llort

JOSEP GARCÍA LLORT (Barcelona, 1921-2003).
Untitled, 1962.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right margin and on the back.
Measurements: 50 x 73 cm; 72 x 98 cm (frame).

After studying at the Massana School and at the Cercle Artístic de Barcelona, Josep García Llort moved to Paris with a scholarship of the French State. In 1953, he took up residence in Louisiana for a few years, alternating his stay between Barcelona and the USA. He held his first exhibitions in the Syra (Barcelona, 1950) and Moderne (New York, 1955) galleries, being in the Sala Dalmau in Barcelona where he would mostly repeat his solo exhibitions (1988, 1994, 2003). He also exhibited in Madrid (Sala Prado del Ateneo, Altex Gallery, Abril Gallery), Salamanca (Artis Gallery), Bordeaux (Casa de Goya Cultural Center), etc. He was part of the exhibition "Utopías del origen. Figurative avant-garde in Catalonia", held at the Palau Moja in Barcelona in 2006. The following year, the Dalmau room dedicated an important retrospective to him, presenting at the opening the book about his life and work written by the critic Jordi Benet. His pictorial production, full of childhood memories and experiences of youth, crossed by a satirical vein, is populated by a particular bestiary full of birds of violent palette. In a style close to German expressionism, his "figures of post-Picassian geometry" are decomposed into panels whose curved or curvilinear bands separating primary colors recall the art of stained glass. He is represented in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), among other collections.