Joan Hernández Pijuán

JOAN HERNÁNDEZ PIJUÁN (Barcelona, 1931 - 2005).
"Gerro sobre verd", 1987.
Engraving, copy 8/50.
Signed, dated and justified by hand.
Ed. Polígrafa, Barcelona.
Measurements: 20 x 31 cm (print); 38 x 57 cm (paper).

Joan Hernández Pijuán begins his formation in Barcelona, attending the Schools of La Lonja and Fine Arts of Sant Jordi, to later complete his formation in the School of Fine Arts of Paris. Appointed professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona in 1981, he was a member of the Sílex Group and exhibited individually in several Spanish cities as well as in Zurich, Milan, Johannesburg, Cologne, Geneva, New York, Paris and Osaka. He was dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, and in 2000 he was appointed member of the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. In 1981 he received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, in 1985 the Cruz de Sant Jordi and, in 2004, the Ciudad de Barcelona award. He is represented at the MACBA in Barcelona, the Spanish Abstract Art Museum in Cuenca, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid and the Basque Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as in foreign centers such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Liaunig (Austria), the Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and the Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, those of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and Luxembourg, the Kulturstiftung in Bad Homburg (Austria), the Yamaguchi Gallery in Osaka (Japan), the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels, the National Gallery in Montreal, the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires and the Sztuki Museum in Lodz (Poland). He made countless versions of vases with flowers, reducing the forms to the limits of the figurative referential.