Vicenç Viaplana

VICENÇ VILAPLANA (Granollers, Barcelona, 1955).
Untitled, 1996.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed and dated on the back.
Size: 180 x 140 cm.
Vicenç Viaplana develops a work centred on making the ethereal, the immaterial visible, for which he masterfully captures the effects of light and gives form to vaporous shadows. Each of his works is a new exploration that accumulates experience and sensitivity, and opens up questions about the certainty of our perceptions. His distortion of reality, the concealment of objects and the blurring of images provoke multiple messages that wander between abstraction and figuration. Viaplana made his solo debut in 1975, at the Ciento gallery in Barcelona, and since then he has held personal exhibitions in that city as well as in Madrid, Ibiza, New York, Kyoto, Groningen, Tokyo, Basiela, etc. He has also taken part in outstanding group exhibitions all over the world, including the "G Gallery" Teatru Studio in Warsaw (1977), Armory in New York (1990), Runkel Hue Williams in London (1993), Reflex in Amsterdam (1993), the Royal Ueno Museum in Tokyo (1995), the Reinickendorf Hall in Berlin (1996), the Cervantes Institute in Munich (1996) and the Pelaires Hall in Palma (2003), among many other galleries and art centres all over the world. Since 1978 he has combined painting with design, having worked for prominent clients such as the restaurant "El Bulli", the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the MACBA shop-bookshop, the Centro Insular de Cultura de Las Palmas, the Diputación de Barcelona, etc. He has also designed the "Pisa" bookshelf, the "Tanatona" lamp and the "Oa" tables for the firm Tresce. He is currently represented in the Museum of Granollers, the Vilacasas and Soriguè Foundations, and the Fundació La Caixa, Ernesto Ventós Omedes, Josep Mª Civit, Tous-de Pedro, Runkel Hue Williams, Prudential Securities, Vreg Baghomian and Aaron B. Kratz collections.