Rafael Bartolozzi

RAFAEL BARTOLOZZI (Pamplona, 1943 - Vespella de Gaià, Tarragona, 2009).
"Figura ritu", from the series "Mides Universals", 1977.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
With label on the back of the Venice Biennale of 1980.
Measurements: 24 x 19 cm; 25,5 x 20,5 cm (frame).

Bartolozzi was grouped in the sixties with Eduardo Arranz, Gerard Sala and Robert Llimós, and until 1982 he continued to work with Arranz, both of them being introducers of the "happening" in Catalonia. In 1980 he participated in the Venice Biennale. In 2007 the Bartolozzi Foundation was created in Vespella de Gaià, with the aim of gathering and disseminating his work, as well as promoting the work of new artists. He is also represented at the MACBA in Barcelona, the Camón Aznar Museum in Zaragoza, the Contemporary Art Museums of Seville and Las Palmas and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Navarra, among others.