Joan Josep Tharrats y Vidal

JOAN JOSEP THARRATS Y VIDAL (Girona, 1918 - Barcelona, 2001).
Untitled.
Oil and collage on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 63 x 76 cm; 69 x 81 cm (frame).
In this work the author uses an abstract language, based on the irregular geometry, of organic character both in its outline and in its textures and colors, to construct an image that has much of archaic ritual, After beginning his formation in Béziers (France), in 1935 he returns to Barcelona and enters the Massana School. Co-founder of Dau al Set, he made his individual debut in 1949 at the El Jardín galleries in Barcelona. From 1954 he exhibited regularly at the Sala Gaspar in Barcelona, as well as in 1955 in Stockholm and New York, in 1959 at the São Paulo Biennial, and in Venice at the Biennials of 1960 and 1964. In 1966 he founded the Asociación de Artistas Actuales. In 1983 he was awarded the Cross of Sant Jordi, and in 1994 the National Prize of Plastic Arts. That same year he joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Jordi. His work is present in various museums and collections around the world, such as the MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the MACBA or the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.