Montserrat Gudiol

MONTSERRAT GUDIOL COROMINAS (Barcelona, 1933 - 2015).
"Girl watching", 1983.
Watercolor and graphite on paper.
Presents on the back label of the Gavar Gallery (Madrid).
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 41 x 21 cm; 60 x 41 cm (frame).
Montserrat Gudiol begins in the world of art in the family study of restoration of medieval painting, and from 1950 is dedicated to the painting on board and on paper. That same year she had her first individual exhibition at the Casino of Ripoll (Girona). In 1953 he took part in the collective exhibition "Current Portrait", at the Artistic Circle of Barcelona, and the following year he made his debut abroad with a solo exhibition of drawings held at the Museum of Miami (United States). That same year she takes part in the collective exhibition "Pintura femenina" (C.I.C.F. of Barcelona), she obtains the First Prize of the Diputación de Barcelona and the Second Prize San Jorge of the same entity. In 1960 she participates in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts held in Barcelona, where she wins a third medal, and also takes part in the International Drawing Exhibition of the Ynglada Guillot Foundation (Barcelona), being awarded the First Prize. In 1962 she held an important individual exhibition at the Sala Gaspar in Barcelona (a gallery where she would repeat her presence from then on), and that same year she took part in a collective exhibition held at the Casón del Buen Retiro, in Madrid. Since then he has continued to hold individual exhibitions and to participate in group shows, both in Spain and in Germany, South Africa, Czech Republic, China, France, Japan, United States, Russia and Canada. Among his personal exhibitions are those held at the Pieter Wenning Gallery in Johannesburg (1967), Tamenaga Gallery in Tokyo (1974), Au Molin de Vauboyen in Paris (1978), the Exhibition Hall of the Union of Painters of the USSR in Moscow (1979), the Dreiseitel Gallery in Cologne (1981) and the Walton-Gilbert Gallery in San Francisco (1984). In 1980 she made an important monumental work for the Abbey of Montserrat, a representation of St. Benedict. In 1981 she was the first woman to join the Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi, and in 1998 the Generalitat de Catalunya awarded her the Cross of Sant Jordi. Possessing a personal and sincere language, far from fashions or preconceived styles, Gudiol creates works characterized by a theme and an atmosphere that show a marked taste for fantasy and introspection. His colors and figures form a world of mystery, populated by stylized and blind characters, and scenes of motherhood. Her oil paintings and drawings transmit the strong personality of the author, as well as her idea of a true art. Gudiol embraces the extreme problems of the human being, with compositions characterized by a background of deep, mysterious and disturbing silences, where affection and emotion enter into dialogue with the anxiety and anguish of the human being. She is currently represented at the MACBA, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, the Museums of Modern Art in Johannesburg, San Diego, Miami and Flint (USA), the Joseph Cantor Foundation in Indianapolis (USA), the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne (Switzerland), the Monastery of Montserrat and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi.