Pep Duran

PEP DURAN (Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1955).
"Dues cares i xiprer", 1975.
Mixed media on paper.
Signed and dated in the left margin.
With label of the gallery Alejandro Sales, Barcelona.
Measurements: 20 x 26,5 cm.; 35 x 45 cm.(frame).
Pep Duran has worked in parallel and from the beginning with scenography. This has allowed him to develop, over the years, projects and proposals focused on a particular way of understanding construction and representation, focused on solving the staging. His works can be found in numerous private and public collections such as the Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofía (MNACRS), the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA) or Artium de Vitoria, Fons d'Art de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación La Caixa, Colección Banc de Sabadell, among others. He has exhibited, both collectively and individually, in Spanish and European cities such as Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Donosti, Lisbon, London, Amsterdam, Cologne, Turin, Copenhagen, among others. He is represented by RocioSantaCruz Gallery (Barcelona). He has made numerous stage designs for theater, participating in productions for the Teatre Lliure and the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and the Teatro de La Zarzuela in Madrid. As artistic director he has collaborated in several films, being awarded the Cinematography Prize of the Generalitat de Catalunya for Best Technician for the costumes of the film 'Luces y Sombras' by Jaime Camino in 1989. His project Sin Escenario, organized by SEACEX and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, has toured in 2009-2010 to the museums of Contemporary Art MARTE in El Salvador, MADC in Costa Rica, MAC in Panama and the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico. One of his latest important exhibition projects was "A chain of events", curated by Chus Martinez at MACBA Capella, an installation of ceramic pieces with inlaid and glazed reliefs, works produced in collaboration with MACBA. This piece is installed at the Central Library of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.