Miquel Barceló

MIQUEL BARCELÓ (Felanitx, Mallorca, 1957).
"Sea of Geneva" 2007.
Carborundum on paper, copy 29/30.
Signed and numbered in pencil.
Measurements: 68 x 82 cm.

In "Sea of Geneva", Miquel Barceló transfers to the graphic field the material intensity and gestural freedom that characterize his painting. The carborundum technique allows him to build a dense and vibrant surface, where the accumulation of pigment generates reliefs and depths that verge on the pictorial.

The composition evokes a seascape from a sensorial rather than a descriptive perspective. A large central golden mass, almost organic, emerges among blues, greens and blacks, suggesting currents, seabeds or underwater territories in constant transformation. The image oscillates between abstraction and nature, one of the fundamental axes in the artist's work.

Miquel Barceló was trained in Palma de Mallorca and continued his studies in Barcelona, making his debut at the tender age of seventeen. After discovering art brut in Paris, in 1976 he held his first solo exhibition in a museum, at the Museum of Mallorca.

In 1986 he received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas and later the Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes, among other international awards. His work is represented in important museums such as the MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Guggenheim in Bilbao and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, among other institutions of reference.