Kunst
"Aufgewachsen und umgeben von Kunst und mit vielen Künstlern, die in meiner Kindheit mein Elternhaus besuchten, sehe ich Kunst als Ausdruck des Lebens und als Quelle der Inspiration." Wolf Wilder
Wir sind keine Kunstsammler, sondern möchten die Stücke, die wir lieben, mit unseren Gästen teilen. Wir kennen alle vorgestellten Künstler und ihre Arbeit persönlich. Wir haben selbst entschieden, welche ihrer Arbeiten am besten in den Raum passt. Der letzte Hauch von Persönlichkeit jedes Raumes wird durch das Kunstwerk und durch den Künstler, der es ausgewählt hat, definiert.
Um die Ausstellung zu koordinieren, freuen wir uns mit der mit der Kunstkritikerin und Kuratorin Pilar Ribal Simó zusammenzuarbeiten.
Sóller ist eine der ältesten Städte Mallorcas. Das fruchtbare Tal und die üppige, artenreiche Vegetation erklären den Ursprung des Städtenamens, der vom Begriff “Sûlyâr” abstammt, was auf Arabisch “Goldenes Tal” bedeutet. Ebendiese außergewöhnliche Schönheit und die Lage im Herzen des Tramuntana-Gebirges wie auch das harmonische Miteinander von Mensch und Natur sind der Grund für die Aufnahme ins Welterbe der UNESCO im Jahr 2010.
Seit der Einrichtung eines ständigen Seehandelswegs nach Barcelona zogen die Schönheit der Landschaft mit ihren abertausenden Obstbäumen, die dort lebenden Menschen und die zauberhaften Steinbauten zahlreiche Künstler an; besonders diejenigen, welche danach strebten, die …
Sóller ist eine der ältesten Städte Mallorcas. Das fruchtbare Tal und die üppige, artenreiche Vegetation erklären den Ursprung des Städtenamens, der vom Begriff “Sûlyâr” abstammt, was auf Arabisch “Goldenes Tal” bedeutet. Ebendiese außergewöhnliche Schönheit und die Lage im Herzen des Tramuntana-Gebirges wie auch das harmonische Miteinander von Mensch und Natur sind der Grund für die Aufnahme ins Welterbe der UNESCO im Jahr 2010.
Seit der Einrichtung eines ständigen Seehandelswegs nach Barcelona zogen die Schönheit der Landschaft mit ihren abertausenden Obstbäumen, die dort lebenden Menschen und die zauberhaften Steinbauten zahlreiche Künstler an; besonders diejenigen, welche danach strebten, die Enge ihrer Werkstätten und Ateliers gegen die Freiheit des Malens in der Natur einzutauschen. Der Schriftsteller J.B. Laurens brachte seine Faszination für Sóller zu Papier, indem er es als “Garten der Hesperiden” beschrieb, einen modernen Garten Eden, “einen köstlichen Traum, ein Bildnis der wahrhaftigen Vergnüngen, die Gott den Menschen gewährt, sodass diese ihr Dasein schätzen und sich ihrer Leiden entledigen.”
Von besonderer Bedeutung für Maler des “Modernisme” (des Katalanischen Modernismus), wie beispielsweise Santiago Rusiñol, der den Charme des Hafens von Sóller Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts in seinen Werken festhielt, war und ist die zauberhafte Anmutung dieser Stadt, in der zeitgenössische Kunst allgegenwärtig ist und in der sich so bedeutende Künstler niederließen wie Miguel Ángel Campano, José María Sicilia, Michael Kane, Francesca Martí, Pep Girbent, Pep Guerrero, Neus Marroig, Pere Colom – und sich zu Künstlern gesellten wie Jaume Pinya und Toni de Cúber, die hier geboren wurden. Besonders hervorzuheben ist die treibende Rolle von Can Puig, der ehemaligen Fabrik und privaten Werkstätte des Künstlers Toni de Cúber, die zahlreiche Ausstellungen lokaler und auch anderer Künstler beherbergte, in einer vorbildlichen, höchsten Ansprüchen gerecht werdenden Programmgestaltung trotz bescheidener Mittel.
Zweifelsohne erwähnenswert ist die Sammlerleistung von Pedro Serra, Geschäftsmann und Mäzen aus Sóller, dessen private Kunstsammlung teilweise ans Es Baluard Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst in Palma de Mallorca übergeben wurde. Als bekannter Förderer balearischer Kunst und Freund internationaler Künstler gelang es ihm, eine beeindruckende Kollektion internationaler zeitgenössischer Skulpturen im Garten seiner Anwesens Ses Tanques zu versammeln. Sein Vermächtnis umfasst außerdem die Förderung verschiedener institutioneller Projekte wie das Can Prunera Museum of Modernism sowie die Kunstausstellung im Bahnhof von Sóller, einer Zusammenarbeit der Fundació d'Art Serra mit dem Betreiber der Bahnstrecke, der Ferrocarril de Sóller.
Abseits dieser bekannten Kunststätten werden einige einzigartige Projekte von Verfechtern zeitgenössischer Kunst ins Leben gerufen, um diese zu würdigen und Kunstliebhabern zugänglich zu machen, so wie das Finca Can Coll Boutique Country House. Zusammen mit der Förderung und Präsentation von auf der Insel hergestellten Weins hat sich die Finca Can Coll der Verbreitung der Werke von auf der Insel lebenden und arbeitenden Künstlern verschrieben; einer bedeutenden Gemeinschaft, die sowohl auf Mallorca Geborene einschließt wie auch diejenigen, welche die Insel als ihre neue Heimat angenommen haben. Einige von ihnen werden die privaten Gemächer der Finca Can Coll mit der einzigartigen Energie zeitgenössischer Kunst ausfüllen und damit die außerordentliche Aufenthaltsqualität noch weiter steigern, die nicht nur dem atemberaubenden Umland und der ruhigen Atmosphäre des Anwesens zu verdanken ist, sondern vor allem auch dem Bekenntnis des Projekts “Finca Can Coll” zu höchsten Standards und erstklassiger Qualität.
"In seiner Einsamkeit gefangen, bereitet leidenschaftlich seine Explosionen oder Heldentaten vor"
Gaston de Bachelard
In seinem berühmten Essay über die "Poetik des Raumes" bezeichnete Gaston de Bachelard das Haus als "die erste Welt des Menschen", jenen Ort, an dem "eine große Anzahl unserer Erinnerungen Zuflucht finden" und in dessen Räumen "Leidenschaften inkubiert werden".
Es gibt eine interessante Parallele zwischen künstlerischer Praxis und jenem "eigenen Raum", der uns genauso bewohnt, wie wir ihn selbst bewohnen. Während private Räume ein wunderschöner physischer Raum sind, in dem wir unsere Intimität schützen, wo wir träumen, trösten, lieben und uns mit der Realität …
"In seiner Einsamkeit gefangen, bereitet leidenschaftlich seine Explosionen oder Heldentaten vor"
Gaston de Bachelard
In seinem berühmten Essay über die "Poetik des Raumes" bezeichnete Gaston de Bachelard das Haus als "die erste Welt des Menschen", jenen Ort, an dem "eine große Anzahl unserer Erinnerungen Zuflucht finden" und in dessen Räumen "Leidenschaften inkubiert werden".
Es gibt eine interessante Parallele zwischen künstlerischer Praxis und jenem "eigenen Raum", der uns genauso bewohnt, wie wir ihn selbst bewohnen. Während private Räume ein wunderschöner physischer Raum sind, in dem wir unsere Intimität schützen, wo wir träumen, trösten, lieben und uns mit der Realität verbinden, ist Kunst wiederum eine intime Hochburg der Erkundung, der Emotionen und des Denkens, ein symbolisches Territorium, in dem Künstler ihre Anliegen gestalten und ihre Werke machen können. Ein Sprecher, der Ihre Vision der Welt vermittelt. Und wie in jenen Träumen, in denen unser Unterbewusstsein Parallelwelten erkundet und außergewöhnliche Abenteuer erlebt, ist Kunst ein Erlebnisabenteuer, in dem Vorstellungskraft, Erinnerung und unsere Eindrücke eine wesentliche Rolle spielen.
In ihrer bekannten Erzählung "A Room of One's Own" bezog sich Virginia Wolf auf die Schwierigkeiten, die sie als Schöpferin hatte, völlig frei zu schreiben, wenn sie keinen separaten Raum hätte und ihre Wirtschaft gesichert hätte. Nur so, so reflektierte er, könne er sein Werk völlig frei entwickeln. In diesem einzigartigen Essay, der auf einer Reihe von Vorträgen basiert, die die Autorin im Oktober 1928 am Newnham College und Girton College – beides Frauenuniversitäten der Universität Cambridge – entwickelte, entwickelte Wolf das Genre des inneren Monologs als eine Möglichkeit, das Bewusstsein zu erwecken, in diesem Fall feministisch.
Die deutlichen Ähnlichkeiten zwischen Literatur und Kunst als Schöpfungsprozesse, die aus Begehren und Notwendigkeit hervorgehen, lassen uns bekräftigen, dass künstlerisches Schaffen auch ein »innerer Monolog« ist, eine persönliche Reflexion, die in Bildern geteilt wird. Es gibt keinen Künstler, der nicht den Raum der inneren Stille und Zuflucht braucht, der sein Atelier oder seine Werkstatt ist. In dieser Stille schreien die Bilder danach, ihre Form in den Händen ihres Architekten zu finden. In dieser Zuflucht wird das Kunstwerk errichtet.
Bis zum Aufkommen der Fotografie schufen fast alle Maler, Bildhauer und Meister der Zeichnung in geschlossenen Räumen. Interessanterweise fiel ihr Ausflug im Freien mit der Veröffentlichung ihrer Rolle als "Chronisten" der Realität zusammen. Nun konnten sie spekulieren, transformieren, die vierte Dimension der Zeit einführen und ein Porträt in geometrische Fragmente zerlegen. Es war nun möglich, dicke Striche anzuwenden, die das Auge in der Ferne kombinieren würde. Oder die Schönheit der Maschine und das störende Wesen des Territoriums des Oneirischen hervorheben. Zerlegen, abstrahieren und experimentieren Sie mit dem Ganzen und Nichts der Farbe. Doch diese enorme Expansion, die den Wunsch nach Innovation mit sich brachte, in dem die Avantgarde die Hauptrolle spielen würde und für die zeitgenössische Kunst so vorteilhaft war, schaffte es nicht, die Anziehungskraft und das Bedürfnis nach dem Atelier zu schließen. Und so verschwand dieser intime Ort, an dem man ein Werk frei entfalten konnte, nie zu einem analogen Abbild der Seele des Künstlers.
Ich erinnere mich an die Wirkung des Besuchs von Francis Bacons Atelier in der Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, das 1998 durch Spende seiner Erben Stück für Stück aus London verlegt worden war. Dieses visuelle Chaos, dieses Amalgam aus mehr als 7.000 Objekten, Stoffen und Utensilien aller Art, war das beste Spiegelbild des gequälten Interieurs des Künstlers und seiner berühmten Porträts zerschlagener Körper. In den Antipoden dieses erstickenden Raumes befindet sich zum Beispiel das geordnete Atelier, das Joan Miró bei seinem Tod hinterlassen hat und das immer noch Teil des Erbes der Fundació Miró Mallorca ist. Die Parallele zwischen der Klarheit seiner Arbeit und dem Ort, an dem er schuf, dem Raum, in dem er die meiste Zeit verbrachte, ist mehr als offensichtlich.
Ebenso haben alle Künstler, die dieses künstlerische Projekt ausmachen, einen symbolischen "eigenen Raum" im Atelier oder Werkstatt, in dem sie mit ihren Intuitionen und Ideen kreieren und diskutieren. Aus diesen hermetischen Räumen, die stumme Zeugen des kreativen Prozesses sind, werden die Stücke entstehen, die für die Zimmer des Finca Can Coll ausgewählt wurden, deren Gäste entsprechend ihrer eigenen Persönlichkeit Beziehungen zu ihnen aufbauen werden.
Die Tatsache, ausgewählt worden zu sein, um einen intimen Raum zu teilen, der vorübergehend von verschiedenen Menschen bewohnt wird, erklärt, dass diese Kreationen, die an die Landschaft, die Natur und ihre Elemente erinnern, kontemplative Qualitäten besitzen und die Schönheit des Einzigartigen und des Andersartigen, das uns umgibt, suchen.
Wenn wir mit der Metapher des "Lebens" fortfahren, können wir uns darauf einigen, dass in den Werken von Marta Blasco, Jesús Cánovas, Jeannine Cook, Pep Girbent, James Lambourne, Luis Maraver, Francisca Martí, Vesna Z. Mimiça, Cris Pink, Horacio Sapere und Antoni Socías die Lektionen so vieler Generationen von Künstlern "bewohnen", die die Natur zu ihrem Hauptgenre gemacht haben. Das heißt, dass man in seinen Gemälden und Zeichnungen die Spur der Emotionalität der Symbolisten und Erhabenen, der bunten Leidenschaft der Maler des Freilichts oder der Ausdruckskraft der naturalistischen Zeichnung finden kann, aber auch das Wissen um jene zeitgenössische Ästhetik, die bekanntermaßen so vielen Einflüssen verpflichtet ist, aber nicht auf ihre besondere Verführung durch die Schönheit der kleinen Dinge verzichtet.
In diesen Zeiten der technologischen Fluidität werden Vorschläge geschätzt, die immer noch den Duft der Zeit in der immateriellen Atmosphäre einer Landschaft oder in der einfachen Anmut von Blumen verfolgen, Werke, die die Gegenwart mit der alten Seele der Malerei umarmen und ihre Arbeit zu einer Quelle der Inspiration und einer Festung der ruhigen Beobachtung für den Blick machen.
Pilar Ribal
Jeannine Cook
Tanzanian by birth, European by heritage, British-American by nationality, Jeannine Cook is one of a small number of artists worldwide specializing in metalpoint drawing, a subtle, shimmering medium dating from nearly 2000 years ago that uses silver, gold or other styli to make marks on paper. She works from her studio in Palma de Mallorca, her family home from 1960, to which she has returned permanently. She also frequently works abroad on location to prepare exhibitions. Cook has gained recognition in the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, the United States and Europe, with her work in many public and private collections.
She is also recognised as a leading exponent of this drawing medium, hosting silverpoint workshops and delivering illustrated talks on the unusual history of this little-known medium. Examples of her drawings can be viewed at www.jeanninecook.com.
For further information on metalpoint drawing, please see: https://www.jeanninecook.com/metalpoint-drawing
…Tanzanian by birth, European by heritage, British-American by nationality, Jeannine Cook is one of a small number of artists worldwide specializing in metalpoint drawing, a subtle, shimmering medium dating from nearly 2000 years ago that uses silver, gold or other styli to make marks on paper. She works from her studio in Palma de Mallorca, her family home from 1960, to which she has returned permanently. She also frequently works abroad on location to prepare exhibitions. Cook has gained recognition in the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, the United States and Europe, with her work in many public and private collections.
She is also recognised as a leading exponent of this drawing medium, hosting silverpoint workshops and delivering illustrated talks on the unusual history of this little-known medium. Examples of her drawings can be viewed at www.jeanninecook.com.
For further information on metalpoint drawing, please see: https://www.jeanninecook.com/metalpoint-drawing
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"The natural world is, I find, endlessly fascinating. Frequently, these experiences translate into drawings - realistic landscapes and florals, but also seeming abstracts derived from nature – tree bark, stones, seeds… viewed up close. I always work from real life; it confers an intensity that becomes part of the artwork, an experience sharpened by the awareness that with metalpoint, you cannot erase anything, since you are laying down metal particles on the drawing surface!
Increasingly, my exhibitions focus on the survival and well-being of vital ecosystems, using metalpoint as a different way of highlighting their beauty and importance and possibly inciting people to look more closely at our complex natural world. I often pair with environmental non-profit organisations to help raise awareness about an issue. For me, passion about drawing in this quiet, powerful medium is allied with my passion for the natural world we tend to take for granted."
Jeannine Cook
Antoni Socias
He studied at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. During the 80s and 90s he combined his artistic work with footwear design and advertising in companies such as Yanko, Make-Up and Camper.
He has exhibited in Spain (Centro Galego do Arte Contemporánea / CAAM Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Salas Hospital San Martín / Center Cultural Contemporani Pelaires / Museu Es Baluard / Kunstmuseum Boon / “Imago Mundi” – C.A.C. Málaga / “Live the balcony open” – Fundació La Caixa / Fundación Suñol / Fundación O.N.C.E. / Fundación Sa Nostra / Casal Solleric / Llonja-Palma de Mallorca / Casa de las Artes-Sevilla / Museum of Footwear and Industry, Mallorca / Galería Marlborough-Madrid / Galería Pelaires-Palma / Galería Egam-Madrid / Galería Rafael Ortiz-Sevilla / Galería René Metrás-Barcelona / Galería Àngel Romero-Madrid / Galería Gianni Giacobbi-Palma / Galería Urania-Barcelona / Galería Estudi D'Art-Barcelona); Brazil (XXIV Saô Paulo Biennial); Japan …
He studied at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. During the 80s and 90s he combined his artistic work with footwear design and advertising in companies such as Yanko, Make-Up and Camper.
He has exhibited in Spain (Centro Galego do Arte Contemporánea / CAAM Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Salas Hospital San Martín / Center Cultural Contemporani Pelaires / Museu Es Baluard / Kunstmuseum Boon / “Imago Mundi” – C.A.C. Málaga / “Live the balcony open” – Fundació La Caixa / Fundación Suñol / Fundación O.N.C.E. / Fundación Sa Nostra / Casal Solleric / Llonja-Palma de Mallorca / Casa de las Artes-Sevilla / Museum of Footwear and Industry, Mallorca / Galería Marlborough-Madrid / Galería Pelaires-Palma / Galería Egam-Madrid / Galería Rafael Ortiz-Sevilla / Galería René Metrás-Barcelona / Galería Àngel Romero-Madrid / Galería Gianni Giacobbi-Palma / Galería Urania-Barcelona / Galería Estudi D'Art-Barcelona); Brazil (XXIV Saô Paulo Biennial); Japan (Marunouchi Gallery); USA (Gabarrón Foundation-New York / Art LA.88 – Los Angeles Convention Center); Germany (Forum Internationale Kunstmesse – Düsseldorf / Forum Internationale Kunstmesse – Hamburg / Art Cologne - Torch Galerie Amsterdam); Italy (“Anteprima Bovisa: Milano Europa 2000”. Palazzo de la Triennale-Milano), France (“L’ Art dans le monde. 2000. Pont Alexandre III-Paris); Austria (Instituto Cervantes-Vienna); México (Bienal Hispanoamericana de México. México D.F. 1982), Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Le Paysage Humain”- Académie des Beaux Arts-Kinshasa); Mali (“Vies Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie”-Memorial Modibo Keita-Bamako).
Socías has travelled all over the world, especially in Africa, and the encounter with cultural alterity is a recurring key in his work.
He represented Spain individually in the XXIV Biennial of Sao Paulo (Anthropophagy and Histories of Cannibalism), he has starred in important retrospectives and has work in the main Spanish collections (Museo Reina Sofía, La Caixa, Artium Vitoria, Fundació Sa Nostra, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporary...)
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Luis Maraver
Luis Maraver was born in Puebla del Río (Seville) in 1957 and has lived in Mallorca since 1972. After a period of self-taught training, his first group show (“Tres jovenes pintores”) was presented in 1981 at the Moya Gallery in Palma, which would also host his first solo show in 1983. Thus began a period of intense exhibition activity in art galleries and institutional spaces in Mallorca, such as the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Palma in 1988. He would soon exhibit in Barcelona, Seville, Granada, Alicante and other Spanish cities and project his work internationally, exhibiting successfully in Cologne, Berlin and Karlsruhe (Germany) and cities in Sweden, Italy, Russia, Greece and England.
His painting, close to the neo-figurative currents that emphasize matter and his sensitivity when it comes to combining tradition and innovation, made him one of the most prolific and respected painters of his generation, particularly after presenting …
Luis Maraver was born in Puebla del Río (Seville) in 1957 and has lived in Mallorca since 1972. After a period of self-taught training, his first group show (“Tres jovenes pintores”) was presented in 1981 at the Moya Gallery in Palma, which would also host his first solo show in 1983. Thus began a period of intense exhibition activity in art galleries and institutional spaces in Mallorca, such as the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Palma in 1988. He would soon exhibit in Barcelona, Seville, Granada, Alicante and other Spanish cities and project his work internationally, exhibiting successfully in Cologne, Berlin and Karlsruhe (Germany) and cities in Sweden, Italy, Russia, Greece and England.
His painting, close to the neo-figurative currents that emphasize matter and his sensitivity when it comes to combining tradition and innovation, made him one of the most prolific and respected painters of his generation, particularly after presenting his retrospective “Luis Maraver. Works 1985-2003”, which was presented on the Noble Floor of the Casal Solleric in Palma, which later traveled to the House of the Province of the Diputación de Sevilla.
Maraver has participated in international art fairs, such as ARCO, Arte Santander and, among others, Art Bologna. His painting has won numerous awards and his work is part of important private and public collections: Government of the Balearic Islands, Palma City Council, Fundació Barceló, Parliament of the Balearic Islands, Col·lecció “Sa Nostra”, Casa Museu Posada de Biniatró de Campanet, Museu Modernista de Sóller and Col·lecció Iberostar, Hipotels and Blauhotels (Mallorca), Col·lecció Testimoni of the Fundació “La Caixa” (Barcelona) and, among others, the Town Hall of Puebla del Río (Seville).
Although his strong point has been and is painting, in which he stands out for the mastery of his technique and balanced compositions, Maraver has also been recognized for his sculptures and drawings, having also carried out creative actions and interventions in public spaces.
James Lambourne
Born in London in 1957, James Lambourne has lived in Mallorca since 1962. In the mid-eighties he exhibited on the art circuit in Madrid, Barcelona, Las Palmas and, among others, Palma. In the nineties his exhibition activity in Mallorca is very intense, joining the Pedrona Torrens Gallery and exhibiting in several English cities.
Since the 2000s, his work has been internationalized (Japan, Great Britain, France, Germany, South Africa, the United States, the Netherlands, etc.) and he is recognized as one of the best representatives of Land Art, discovering the recreational activities that came performing for a long time as examples of this modality that emphasizes the aesthetic values of nature. The Dutch photographer René Gonkel photographs his phytes, burial mounds, and creative actions with stones, rocks, and earth to which he incorporates the gesture of drawing or attaches found elements, such as dried algae that he collects from the …
Born in London in 1957, James Lambourne has lived in Mallorca since 1962. In the mid-eighties he exhibited on the art circuit in Madrid, Barcelona, Las Palmas and, among others, Palma. In the nineties his exhibition activity in Mallorca is very intense, joining the Pedrona Torrens Gallery and exhibiting in several English cities.
Since the 2000s, his work has been internationalized (Japan, Great Britain, France, Germany, South Africa, the United States, the Netherlands, etc.) and he is recognized as one of the best representatives of Land Art, discovering the recreational activities that came performing for a long time as examples of this modality that emphasizes the aesthetic values of nature. The Dutch photographer René Gonkel photographs his phytes, burial mounds, and creative actions with stones, rocks, and earth to which he incorporates the gesture of drawing or attaches found elements, such as dried algae that he collects from the seashore.
The link with nature, his first inspiration, was joined by that of music when in 2002 he made the series "Fites de la música": a set of drawings where his typical configurations of stones, circles and natural elements appear together with random visual rhythms. emerged from an imaginary music. Combining drawing and sculpture, Lambourne makes specific interventions with stones collected from a farm at the foot of the Randa mountain, paying homage to Ramón Llull. During his stay in South Africa, he created a series of works inspired by Nelson Mandela's burial mound.
Among his most relevant individual exhibitions are “Cicles”, an intervention in the outdoor spaces of the Fundació Miró in Mallorca in 2006; “Fragments”, on the Noble Floor of Casal Solleric in 2014, in collaboration with the Palmyra Foundation and the Michael Horbach Foundation in Cologne, where he later traveled; In 2015, the Tuingallerie de Pulchri (The Hague, The Netherlands) hosted “Music Fites”, an exhibition during which different musicians performed improvisations while watching the projection of the artist's drawings.
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Francesca Martí
Francesca Martí was born in Sóller. She lives between Mallorca and Stockholm. She studied painting and drawing at the Torrens Lladó School in Palma. In the nineties she exhibited in Galleries in Palma, Barcelona, Madrid, London and Ghent, and participated in international fairs with Galería Altair in Palma (ARCO, Art Cologne, Art Bologna, Art Dubai and Miami).
Sombra en la ceniza (Casal Solleric, Palma, 1997), What are you looking at (Fundació Miró in Mallorca, 2001) and Como se hacen las imágenes (Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2003) are her first institutional exhibitions. In 2006 she performed a live pictorial action with the Orchestra of the Lowlands at the Flagey Concert Hall in Brussels. In 2007, she exhibited her project Soul in the Spanish Pavilion at the X Cairo International Biennial - winning the First Prize from the International Jury - and exhibited her installation Echoes in the Aljub of Es Baluard. In …
Francesca Martí was born in Sóller. She lives between Mallorca and Stockholm. She studied painting and drawing at the Torrens Lladó School in Palma. In the nineties she exhibited in Galleries in Palma, Barcelona, Madrid, London and Ghent, and participated in international fairs with Galería Altair in Palma (ARCO, Art Cologne, Art Bologna, Art Dubai and Miami).
Sombra en la ceniza (Casal Solleric, Palma, 1997), What are you looking at (Fundació Miró in Mallorca, 2001) and Como se hacen las imágenes (Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2003) are her first institutional exhibitions. In 2006 she performed a live pictorial action with the Orchestra of the Lowlands at the Flagey Concert Hall in Brussels. In 2007, she exhibited her project Soul in the Spanish Pavilion at the X Cairo International Biennial - winning the First Prize from the International Jury - and exhibited her installation Echoes in the Aljub of Es Baluard. In 2011, she published Francesca Martí Borders of Reality and exhibited with Lipanjepuntin Arte Contemporanea (Trieste3), Martina Kaiser (Cologne), Smith & Hall (Sydney), Epson Kunstbetrieb (Dusseldorf), Il Ponte Contemporanea (Rome) and Gerhardt Braun (Palma).
In 2012 she created the multimedia installation Planet of Fusions for the Central Hall of the Cologne Fair. In 2014 the Pyo Gallery in Seoul hosts her extensive retrospective. During the 56th Venice Biennale she presents her video Painting the Soul and in 2015 she is invited to the II Brabant Biennale (Holland). In 2016 she participates in the Video Art Limousine Festival in New York and installs a monumental sculpture in Aqaba (Jordan). In 2017 the Danubiana Meulensteen in Bratislava hosts Transformation, her 25-year retrospective. In 2019 she exhibited at Gerhard Braun, Reiners Contemporary Art in Malaga and at the DNA Gallery (Berlin) and installed her Dreamers in Eindhoven (Prodrive Technologies) and Mexico City. In 2022 she exhibited at the Xiao Hui Wang Museum in Shanghai.
Horacio Sapere
Horacio Sapere (Buenos Aires, 1951). He has lived and worked in Mallorca since 1975 and since 2011 he has had a studio in New York. He develops his creative process through theatre and performance (1970-1980), visual poetry (1976-1982), painting and sculpture. Creator of large projects such as Poet's room (1995-2023), in Mallorca he has exhibited individually at the University of the Balearic Islands, the Sa Nostra Cultural Center, the Casal Solleric, the Lonja de Palma, the Museum of Mallorca and, among others, at the La Misericòrdia Cultural Center. His latest project is “Poètiques de la Geometría. Llull-Sapere”, multimedia sculptural intervention in the Chapel of the Sepulchre of Ramon Llull in the Basilica of Sant Francesc in Palma.
Represented by numerous galleries: Eric Devlin (Montreal), Madeleine Lacerte (Québec), Alison Milne (Toronto), Furstenberg (Paris), Diana Lowenstein (Miami), Ariadne (Vienna), BMB (Amsterdam), Studio (Warsaw), Miguel Marcos (Barcelona), Joan Guaita Art, Joan Oliver “Maneu” …
Horacio Sapere (Buenos Aires, 1951). He has lived and worked in Mallorca since 1975 and since 2011 he has had a studio in New York. He develops his creative process through theatre and performance (1970-1980), visual poetry (1976-1982), painting and sculpture. Creator of large projects such as Poet's room (1995-2023), in Mallorca he has exhibited individually at the University of the Balearic Islands, the Sa Nostra Cultural Center, the Casal Solleric, the Lonja de Palma, the Museum of Mallorca and, among others, at the La Misericòrdia Cultural Center. His latest project is “Poètiques de la Geometría. Llull-Sapere”, multimedia sculptural intervention in the Chapel of the Sepulchre of Ramon Llull in the Basilica of Sant Francesc in Palma.
Represented by numerous galleries: Eric Devlin (Montreal), Madeleine Lacerte (Québec), Alison Milne (Toronto), Furstenberg (Paris), Diana Lowenstein (Miami), Ariadne (Vienna), BMB (Amsterdam), Studio (Warsaw), Miguel Marcos (Barcelona), Joan Guaita Art, Joan Oliver “Maneu” and Joana Kunstmann (Mallorca).
He has participated in international fairs: ARCO, Art Basel, Art Cologne, Chicago, FIAC Paris, Art Contact Lausanne, Kunstrai Amsterdam, Art London, Art Frankfurt, Expo Bari, Stockholm Art Fair, Art L.A. ELAAC Montréal, Kunst Wien, Kunst Zürich, Page(s), Paris, Miami Art Fair and Palm Beach Art Fair.
Author of public sculptures, his work has been exhibited and is part of large collections: Hyundai Art Museum, Korea; International Monetary Foundation, Washington; MACE, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Eivissa; Palau de la Virreina and Center d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona; Gabarrón Foundation, New York; House of Yanguas, Granada; Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts and San Román de Escalante Collection, Santander; Sofia Imber Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas; Center Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada; Havana Biennial; Cervantes Institute, Rome, Berlin and Moscow; Rafael Botí Foundation, Córdoba; Enrique Larreta Museum, Buenos Aires; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Palazzo Belmonte Riso, Palermo; National Museum of Visual Arts of Montevideo.
Pere Colom
Since I was a teenager I have dedicated myself to music, first playing in discos for tourists, as well as being part of the British group Offbeats, which would later be called the SexBeatles. In 1979 Kevin Ayers commissioned me to form a musical band with which he would collaborate for three years, touring Spain and Europe and recording some television programs.
In 1985 I decided to embark on a new path. The most important international photography magazine in the world, PHOTO, had dedicated a cover and eight inside pages of my nude series to me, after which I decided to take photography seriously and set up my own studio. From this moment on, I started working in fashion, advertising and interior design, and collaborating with such important magazines as Vogue, Elle, Donna or House & Garden.
In 1990 I was selected by Kodak along with eleven other …
Since I was a teenager I have dedicated myself to music, first playing in discos for tourists, as well as being part of the British group Offbeats, which would later be called the SexBeatles. In 1979 Kevin Ayers commissioned me to form a musical band with which he would collaborate for three years, touring Spain and Europe and recording some television programs.
In 1985 I decided to embark on a new path. The most important international photography magazine in the world, PHOTO, had dedicated a cover and eight inside pages of my nude series to me, after which I decided to take photography seriously and set up my own studio. From this moment on, I started working in fashion, advertising and interior design, and collaborating with such important magazines as Vogue, Elle, Donna or House & Garden.
In 1990 I was selected by Kodak along with eleven other international photographers to exhibit my work at the Epcot Center in Florida (USA) for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of photography. Also from the beginning of this decade, I began to exhibit my work in museums, galleries and contemporary art centers. For commercial reasons, from 2001 I decided to focus only on commercial assignments. However, from 2017 I decided to focus on recovering personal projects that had been on the back burner for a long time.
Recently, Editorial Dolmen has published my book "Goddesses of body and soul", a tribute to anonymous women who, without having experience in the world of modelling or in artistic projects, bare their souls for my camera. This publication is the first of a trilogy that I will carry out from a personal point of view about Mallorca and that will cover the human, the territory and the myths.
Jesús Cánovas
Born in Madrid in 1963, Jesús Cánovas's childhood was spent in Brussels, Paris and Madrid, where he learned first-hand about the art of the great masters. In 1979 he moved to Zurich, where he completed his studies. His visits to museums and contemporary art galleries inclined him towards artistic practice, renting his first studio in Zurich in 1984, beginning to exhibit in 1991 and 1992 at the Nada Relic Gallery and the Binz-39 Foundation, both in the Swiss city.
In 1993 he moved to Mallorca, where he resides. In the mid-nineties, Cánovas gave a radical turn to his work, which laid the foundations for his style from then on. His first individual exhibition at the 4 Gats Gallery in Palma is a great discovery. In 1997, he participated in “Large Formats”, a collective from the Xavier Fiol Gallery in Palma, with whom he continued to exhibit and participate in …
Born in Madrid in 1963, Jesús Cánovas's childhood was spent in Brussels, Paris and Madrid, where he learned first-hand about the art of the great masters. In 1979 he moved to Zurich, where he completed his studies. His visits to museums and contemporary art galleries inclined him towards artistic practice, renting his first studio in Zurich in 1984, beginning to exhibit in 1991 and 1992 at the Nada Relic Gallery and the Binz-39 Foundation, both in the Swiss city.
In 1993 he moved to Mallorca, where he resides. In the mid-nineties, Cánovas gave a radical turn to his work, which laid the foundations for his style from then on. His first individual exhibition at the 4 Gats Gallery in Palma is a great discovery. In 1997, he participated in “Large Formats”, a collective from the Xavier Fiol Gallery in Palma, with whom he continued to exhibit and participate in four editions of ARCO and other international art fairs, as well as in the Thomas Erben Gallery in New York (1998) and, among others, the Cavecanem Gallery in Seville (2000).
In 2003, the collector and businessman Roberto Alcalde commissioned him to create an eighty-meter-long mural that recreates Mediterranean myths. Among other notable collectives, he participated in “Aire” (2002) and “Somnis y Malsons” (2004) at the Andratx Cultural Center and in “The painting show” at the Xavier Fiol Gallery.
After a long period working for international companies creating murals and specific commissions, and in the meantime considering offers to exhibit in galleries in Colombia and Mallorca, Jesús Cánovas is developing new series of paintings in which that intelligent combination of resources is produced in which he traces both the lessons of the past and the imprint of the digital image.
Contact:
olmeda40@msn.com
Cris Pink
German by birth, she has lived in Mallorca since 1984. Her first individual exhibition in Palma was at the Bisart Gallery. She studied in the German cities of Hamburg and Mainz and a scholarship took her to Spain in 1983. Her first works show her interest in figuration, although gradually and in a short time, her painting approaches the abstract informalism. This transition process can already be seen in her creation of the scenery for the concert "Los cuatro elementos", at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid 1993) and in the individual exhibition that she carried out at the Altair Gallery (Palma 1995). In 1996 she participated in the exhibition "Abstraccions, Non-figurative Painting on the Balearic Islands" Sa Lonja (Palma) and in 1997 with the work "Figura" in the exhibition of the AENA Collection at Casal Solleric (Palma). Exhibitions continue in Cologne, Koblenz, Hamburg, Paris, Barcelona, Valencia, …
German by birth, she has lived in Mallorca since 1984. Her first individual exhibition in Palma was at the Bisart Gallery. She studied in the German cities of Hamburg and Mainz and a scholarship took her to Spain in 1983. Her first works show her interest in figuration, although gradually and in a short time, her painting approaches the abstract informalism. This transition process can already be seen in her creation of the scenery for the concert "Los cuatro elementos", at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid 1993) and in the individual exhibition that she carried out at the Altair Gallery (Palma 1995). In 1996 she participated in the exhibition "Abstraccions, Non-figurative Painting on the Balearic Islands" Sa Lonja (Palma) and in 1997 with the work "Figura" in the exhibition of the AENA Collection at Casal Solleric (Palma). Exhibitions continue in Cologne, Koblenz, Hamburg, Paris, Barcelona, Valencia, Washington, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Palma de Mallorca, up to the present. Since 2013 she is represented by the Hengevoss Gallery -Dürrkop, Hamburg / Germany.
She is co-founder of the Blau School of Design, where she works as a teacher and responsible for cultural exchange with Universities in Germany and Egypt. 2004 she organizes a Workshop and Fashion Show “Tradition and Modernity” with the designer Miguel Adrover at the Instituto de Cervantes in Cairo with students from Helwan University and Blau School of Design. In 2007, the Nagada company entrusted her with the annual parade at the Cairo Opera House.
In 2010 she carried out the "Hilos de Ariadne" projects for women with eating disorders at the Miró Foundation in Mallorca and the "Recycling and Projection" workshop with inmates from the Palma Penitentiary Center. She currently works as an art therapist (Art Therapy Studies "Scuola Triennale de Formazione de Arteterapia" in Pescara 2011) for the Consell de Mallorca and other entities that help women who suffer gender violence.
Her work can be found in the collections: AENA Foundation, Sa Nostra Foundation, Miró a Mallorca Foundation, Government of the Balearic Islands, Caixa Colonia Foundation, Palma Lawyers Association, Grupo Serra, Four Seasons Hotel Chain and the Mittelrhein-Museum of Koblenz
Pep Girbent
Girbent was born in Sóller (Mallorca) in 1969. In 1986 he enrolled in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona. He soon drops out of university and for a while lets himself be seen in the bohemian atmospheres of the Mediterranean city. During this period he dedicated himself to watching movies and reading, especially essays and philosophy. In 1989 he travelled to the extinct GDR and was able to enrol in the famous Leizpig Art Academy. The fall of the Berlin Wall surprises him in Leizpig. In 1990 he exhibited his first paintings in the collective exhibition The Wall, in an alternative space in Berlin. Simultaneously, he explores the world of comics and illustration publishing (both comics and covers) in the best magazines in the world (Totem and Zona 84 in Spain, El Eternauta in Italy or Metal Hurlant in the US). A year later he leaves Germany and travels …
Girbent was born in Sóller (Mallorca) in 1969. In 1986 he enrolled in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona. He soon drops out of university and for a while lets himself be seen in the bohemian atmospheres of the Mediterranean city. During this period he dedicated himself to watching movies and reading, especially essays and philosophy. In 1989 he travelled to the extinct GDR and was able to enrol in the famous Leizpig Art Academy. The fall of the Berlin Wall surprises him in Leizpig. In 1990 he exhibited his first paintings in the collective exhibition The Wall, in an alternative space in Berlin. Simultaneously, he explores the world of comics and illustration publishing (both comics and covers) in the best magazines in the world (Totem and Zona 84 in Spain, El Eternauta in Italy or Metal Hurlant in the US). A year later he leaves Germany and travels to Mexico City, where he explores the possibilities of video, recording in the places that the Infrarealists frequented, such as the "Quito" café on Bucarelli street. In Mexico he continues to read compulsively, but his interest has shifted from essays to literature (Borges, Gadda, Joyce...) At the same time, his interest in video art and experimental cinema grows. He spends the years 1992 and 1993 in the Yucatan peninsula, living first in Mérida and then in Valladolid. After what he considers his Mexican stage of reflection, he decides to return to his native Mallorca to devote himself to painting.
The development of his career and his exhibition career is closely linked to the Horrach Moyà Gallery in Palma and his friendship with his director, Juan Antonio Horrach. Hand in hand with him, Girbent has participated in numerous international art fairs and carried out important institutional projects in museums and art centers around the world. His film El Vermeer No. 36 can be viewed on his website: www.girbent.com
pepgirbent@gmail.com
Marta Blasco
Born in Valencia in 1974 and with a degree in Fine Arts from the UPV, she has lived in Mallorca since 1999. In April 2022, Can Marquès Contemporani hosted her project “Mitoginia”, a set of oil paintings and drawings dedicated to nature and the female figure. This was her fifth individual exhibition on the island, after exhibiting in the main galleries in Palma -Xavier Fiol, Pelaires and Maior.
In 2003, she participated in the Pilar Ribal collective “Sueños y pesadillas” for the Andratx Cultural Center. In 2008, her project “Papeles rotos” received the Pilar Juncosa Innovation Award, exhibiting at the Espai Cúbic of the Fundació Miró in Mallorca in 2009. In 2012, the Casal Solleric in Palma hosted a retrospective (2004-2012) curated by Pilar Ribal. Later, she participates in the exhibition of the DKV Drawing Collection, curated by Alicia Ventura and in projects by Pilar Baos, Paula Llull, Juan …
Born in Valencia in 1974 and with a degree in Fine Arts from the UPV, she has lived in Mallorca since 1999. In April 2022, Can Marquès Contemporani hosted her project “Mitoginia”, a set of oil paintings and drawings dedicated to nature and the female figure. This was her fifth individual exhibition on the island, after exhibiting in the main galleries in Palma -Xavier Fiol, Pelaires and Maior.
In 2003, she participated in the Pilar Ribal collective “Sueños y pesadillas” for the Andratx Cultural Center. In 2008, her project “Papeles rotos” received the Pilar Juncosa Innovation Award, exhibiting at the Espai Cúbic of the Fundació Miró in Mallorca in 2009. In 2012, the Casal Solleric in Palma hosted a retrospective (2004-2012) curated by Pilar Ribal. Later, she participates in the exhibition of the DKV Drawing Collection, curated by Alicia Ventura and in projects by Pilar Baos, Paula Llull, Juan Peiró, David Pérez and Mercedes Rozas, among others. In 2017 she was the first artist to present a specific artistic installation in the Cathedral of Mallorca, "La voz de la Sibila", which developed a novel iconographic program for this mysterious pagan character who proclaims the end of the world. It was curated by Fernando Castro Flórez.
Among the numerous prizes that Blasco has obtained are the First Prize of the VII International Young Painting Contest of the Barceló Foundation, the First Prize of Painting of Sant Marçal and the Senyera Prize of Engraving of the Valencia City Council. Likewise, her work is part of numerous private and public collections, such as the Consolat del Mar, the Cathedral of Mallorca, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the Palma and Valencia City Council, the DKV Art and Health Drawing Collection, the Fundació Miró in Mallorca, the Barceló Foundation and the Artotheek in Amsterdam.
Vesna Z. Mimiça
Vesna was born in Chile. Since 1990 she has lived in Mallorca. She studied Philosophy at the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Photography and Film in Chile, where she was an assistant to award-winning photographer Bob Borowicz, and Abstract Painting and Drawing at the Corcorán School of Art in Washington D.C., holding her first exhibition at the Martin Luther King Library of that city. Between the 1970s and 1990s, she is the creative manager of her advertising agency in Bogotá, Colombia. She acts as a cultural correspondent for Caras Magazine, in Chile. She publishes Poema Visual, an award-winning edition at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
In 1999 she is a guest artist invited at the steel factory Salzgitter AG / Germany, to produce, for a year, industrial steel sculptures that were exhibited with the participation of the illuminators of the band Pink Floyd. In 2004/2006 her large-format work, Tierra Herida, was …
Vesna was born in Chile. Since 1990 she has lived in Mallorca. She studied Philosophy at the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Photography and Film in Chile, where she was an assistant to award-winning photographer Bob Borowicz, and Abstract Painting and Drawing at the Corcorán School of Art in Washington D.C., holding her first exhibition at the Martin Luther King Library of that city. Between the 1970s and 1990s, she is the creative manager of her advertising agency in Bogotá, Colombia. She acts as a cultural correspondent for Caras Magazine, in Chile. She publishes Poema Visual, an award-winning edition at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
In 1999 she is a guest artist invited at the steel factory Salzgitter AG / Germany, to produce, for a year, industrial steel sculptures that were exhibited with the participation of the illuminators of the band Pink Floyd. In 2004/2006 her large-format work, Tierra Herida, was exhibited at the City Hall of Kerkrade / Holland and her paintings on paper in various local galleries. The work Madre Tierra was exhibited during the Festival of Philosophy, Art and Literature in Aachen/Germany and widely reviewed in the Festival’s magazine. In 2006 she presented in Darmstadt / Germany the installation Madre Tierra, a walk through stainless steel trees in the exhibition space of the city's Technological Institute. Between 2007/2010, she exhibits Jardín interior in her workshop in Palma de Mallorca. A video and sculpture installation that was proposed for the Venice Biennale. In 2014 the Casall Solleric hosted her installation Blow your Mind. In 2015 the Sala Dante shows her multimedia show Liztmanía, and in 2015 the Fran Reus Gallery shows her project Silencio.
Between 2016/2022 she has published two novels: Cisnes de Cuello Negro (RIL editores-Chile) and Mario Be. She is the author of the book Tres de la Tribu (translated into Croatian by Boskovic editions) and the Book / Object, of micro-stories, Claroscuro, bilingual edition.
Her work has been acquired by collectors from Spain, Chile, Colombia, Germany and the Netherlands.
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