Josep Maria Riera i Aragó

JOSEP MARIA RIERA I ARAGÓ (Barcelona, 1954).
"Avió".2000.
Etching and collage, copy 26/35.
Signed and justified in pencil.
Measurements: 15 x 16,5 cm.(print); 50 x 50 cm.(paper).

This work is part of Riera i Aragó's characteristic iconography: the flying machine as a poetic metaphor of travel, memory and precarious balance. Since the late eighties, the artist has developed an imaginary populated by airplanes, submarines and hybrid artifacts that refer to both engineering and dream, placing himself in an intermediate territory between sculpture, painting and object.

Riera i Aragó is one of the contemporary Catalan artists with the greatest institutional projection. His work is part of important public collections, including the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC), the MACBA (Barcelona), the IVAM (Valencia), the Museo Patio Herreriano (Valladolid), the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Ibiza, the Fundació Vila Casas, the Col-lecció "la Caixa", as well as various municipal collections and private foundations in Spain and Europe.