Joan Artigas, Artigasplanas

JOAN ARTIGAS "Artigasplanas" (Vilassar de Dalt, 1960).
"Truscan princess".
Bronze and steel.
Edition number 19 of 25.
Signed and justified.
Certificate of authenticity attached.
Measurements: 16.5 x 29 x 11 cm.

The sculptural work of Joan Artigas is situated in a delicate balance between figure and space, between the organic and the constructive. His visual language is based on the female figure, treated with a contained and silent poetics, almost introspective, which seems suspended in a time of its own. Her bronze figures do not seek anatomical detail or descriptive realism, but rather suggestion: elongated bodies, minimal gestures and schematic faces that transmit serenity, fragility and contemplation.

Artigas integrates the figure into geometric iron or steel structures that act as architectural scenarios. These constructivist spaces do not enclose the figure, but support and accompany it, establishing a dialogue between the rigidity of metal and the expressive warmth of bronze. The emptiness is as important as the material: the iron lines draw the space and amplify the sensation of stillness, balance and suspension.

Joan Artigas, known artistically as Artigasplanas, has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. For decades he combined his creative work with teaching, teaching sculpture at the Pau Gargallo School of Art and Design in Badalona between 1988 and 2020. From 2004 he began a continuous presence in art galleries and international fairs. He currently exhibits regularly in galleries in twelve countries on three continents and participates annually in about fourteen international art fairs.

His work is regularly presented in galleries such as Eye Contemporary Art Gallery (Brussels, Berlin, Stockholm and Milan), Galerie Astrid Cornelisse (Naarden and Cologne), Galerie Rasmus (Herning), Galeria Victor Lope (Barcelona) and La Destil-leria Galeria (Mataró). His most recent exhibitions and fairs include Naarden The Art Fair (Netherlands, 2024), Affordable Art Fair in Brussels, Berlin and Stockholm, Discovery Art Fair (Cologne), Art Herning (Denmark) and UP-Fair Milano.

In addition to his gallery work, Artigas has public sculpture in cities such as Bordeaux, Badalona -where in 2023 he inaugurated the work Donants de sang- and Vilassar de Dalt, consolidating a career marked by formal coherence, international projection and a profound sculptural sensibility.