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Dionisio González

 

Dionisio González, Architectual Digital Photography

Dionisio González lives and works in Seville. His digital photographs create spatial, sculptural and photographic explorations of space, architecture and urban development.  Combining existing urban structures with digitally drawn architecture, González’s landscaped images are deceiving yet convincing.

González’s work has been exhibited in many of prestigious institutions and museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bourdeaux, France, the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO), Bogotá, Colombia, the Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo (MASP), Sao Paulo, Brasil, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCCA), Toronto, Canada.

Carlos Amorales

Carlos Amorales, “Black Cloud”, Installation, Black Paper Moths

Black Cloud is an installation by Mexican artist Carlos Amorales involving tens of thousands of black paper months affixed to the walls of large interior spaces. The piece was first installed at Yvon Lambert in 2007 and then in a different configuration at an old baroque church in Spain that was converted to a multi-use space called Espacio AV in 2009.

Joan Ponç

Joan Ponç, “Fisik”, 1981, Oil on Canvas

Joan Ponç was born in Barcelona in 1927. His training as an artist began by studying painting in the workshop of Spainish painter and draughtsman Ramon Rogent. Ponç presented his first exhibition at the Sala Arte de Bilbao at the age of twenty.

Soon after his exhibition, Ponç founded the magazine “Dau al Set”, along with other great artists such as Joan Brossa, Modest Cuixart, Arnau Puig, Joan-Josep Antoni Tapies and Tharrats. This magazine meant the reviving of the creative impulse in post-war decayed Barcelona, Over the next couple of years, Ponç actively interacted and collaborated with forerunners of the Catalan avant-garde, such as Modest Cuixart and Joan Miró. Though the Dau al Set group ultimately disbanded in 1954, Ponç continued presenting his own artwork until 1980.

On April 4, 1984, Ponç died of a heart attack while at his home inSaint-Paul-de-Vence, France. Four days later, he was returned to his residence and workshop in La Roca del Vallés, near Barcelona, for burial.

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Francisco Soria Aedo

Francisco Soria Aedo, “Primitive Hunters”, 1953, Oil on Canvas, Private Collection

Francisco Soria Aedo, born in 1898, was a Spanish figurative painter who began his art in Granada under the guidance of painter and portraitist López Mezquita. Aedo won major awards, including the second medal in the National Exhibition of 1924 for his work “Types Arabs” and the first medal in the International Exposition in Barcelona in 1929 for a painting titled “Christmas Eve in the Village”. Aedo became a professor of color in the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid.

Aedo’s work pays special attention to the representation of the popular culture of the Andalusian, Castilian and Moroccan areas. His paintings with their rich chromatic colors and achieved light effects can be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville and the Museum of Fine Arts of Granada, among others.

Xavier Mascaro

Xavier Mascaro, “The iron Guardians”, Cast Steel, 2010, Spain

Xavier Mascaro’s work “Guardians” calls to mind – albeit in iron – the terracotta warriors of Ancient China. Up to 10ft tall, these faceless sentinels manage to look imposing yet protective at the same time. Again, unlike so much contemporary sculpture, which revels in its ephemerality, these works – you think – could date back centuries, even millennia. They command those old-fashioned artistic virtues: awe, solemnity and respect.

Mascaró is also of interest for anyone with a particular curiosity about Spanish sculpture. His fondness for iron reflects that of his Iberian predecessors, Julio González, Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida. Yet, he rejects the abstract approach so popular during the later years of Franco’s regime – a form of subsumed political dissent – in favour of the figurative.

Botero

Botero, “Cat”, Rambla del Raval, Barcelona, Spain

Fernando Botero’s “Cat” was purchased by Barcelona City Council in 1987. From then until 2003, the cat wandered the city’s streets in search of a permanent site. His first stop-off point was the Parc de la Ciutadella, near his fellow animals at Barcelona Zoo. Then he was taken to a site by the Olympic Stadium, and a few years later he was put in a little square behind Barcelona’s medieval shipyards.

Finally, in 2003, the decision was taken to move him to a permanent location at the end of the newly created Rambla del Raval. The sculpture has become an integral part of one of Barcelona’s most widely redeveloped areas and is a favourite meeting place.