The opening of the exhibition by Miquel Barceló will be held on
Tuesday 12 March at 18.30 at the Paolo Curti & Co. gallery.
Born in Felanitx, Majorca in 1957, after two years at the School of Arts
and Crafts of Palma Barceló entered the Fine Arts Academy of Barcelona
in 1974. In 1975 he returned to Majorca and joined the conceptual art
group "Taller lunatic", participating in the creation of its magazine
"Neon Suro". During the 1980s he traveled in Europe, the United States
and West Africa. Today Miquel Barceló lives in Paris, Majorca and
Segou, Mali.
The reference reality of Barceló is complex and detailed, based on an
intertwining of Majorcan ethnographic elements, African skeletal
primitivism and the opaque, precarious modernity of Paris. The various
relationships Barceló establishes among forms and objects indicate
that he does not paint objects as such, but rather the differences
between them, together with the emotions they reawaken inside him.
Barceló paints imagined, dreamt and pondered objects with the
painterly means of a material he has gradually developed, in which
technical breakthroughs are always accompanied by new forms. The
exhibition features nine canvases of different sizes and five large
works on paper made by the artist in Mali in 1999-2000. Sand, animal
bones, elements of the African land become part of the work in this
continuing process of aesthetic and formal innovation.
Miquel Barceló has shown his work in some of the world's most
important museums, including the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art,
the Museum of Modern Art of New York, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia of
Madrid and the Centre Georges Pompidou of Paris. He has participated at
Documenta, Kassel and the Venice Art Biennial. In May his works will be
shown at the Fondation Maeght of St. Paul de Vence.
For more information go to: http://www.paolocurti.com
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