Adami, Valerio
Valerio Adami was born on March 17, 1935 in Bologna, Italy. He studied at the Brera Academy in Milan (1951-1954) and studied drawing until 1954 in the studio of Achille Funi. In 1955, he left for Paris, where he met Roberto Matta and Wifredo Lam. His first solo exhibition took place in 1958. He found […]
Salinas, Baruj
Born in 1938 in Havana, Cuba, Baruj Salinas is a painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramist. In 1958, he graduated as an architect at Kent State University, Ohio. He immigrated from Cuba to Miami permanently in 1959. He then moved to Barcelona where he studied with artists such as Joan Miro and Antoni Tapies. Salinas’ work […]
Yamamoto, Masafumi
Master Japanese engraver, Masafumi Yamamoto has numerous exhibitions around the world to his credit. Trained in architecture at the Institute of Technology in Chiba, Japan, he later studied engraving at the School of Applied Arts in Barcelona. Yamamoto has produced numerous illustrated books with Yves Bonnefoy, Michel Butor, Kazunari Suzumura, Joan Brossa, Pere Gimferrer and […]
Venturelli, José
José Venturelli is a Chilean painter and engraver, born March 25, 1924 in Santiago de Chile. At the age of 14, he began evening drawing lessons at the School of Fine Arts in Santiago. In 1942, at the age of 18, he entered the same school as a regular pupil where he learned wall painting […]
Torralba, Juan-José
Torralba was an engraver and painter. He studied at the Superior School of Fine Arts in San Carlos and at the School of Book Arts. In 1958, he entered the Superior School of Fine Arts in San Jordi and the Conservatory of Book Arts in Barcelona. In 1961, he founded with the artist Miguel Vila, […]
Titus-Carmel, Gérard
Gérard Titus-Carmel born in Paris on October 10, 1942, is a French painter, poet and essayist. He studied at the Boulle School in Paris from 1958 to 1962. Painter, draftsman and engraver, he participated in more than four hundred and fifty group exhibitions. Nearly two hundred personal exhibitions have been dedicated to him around the […]
Thalmann, Gérard
1961: Exhibition in the public toilets at Place du Bourg-de-Four in Geneva. Manifest exhibition: art needs nature of man. Critical homage to Marcel Duchamp as it seemed easier to exhibit a urinal in a museum (Duchamp) than to transform a pissotiere into an art gallery. 1973: Window / painting. Painting as an alliance of theory […]
Rebeyrolle, Paul
Paul Rebeyrolle was born in 1926 in Eymoutiers, France. At the age of five he suffered from a disease which immobilized him completely and it was his parents, Jean Rebeyrolle and Marie Ensergueix, teachers, who taught him to read and write. He also learns to draw. In 1937 the family moved to Limoges where he […]
Peverelli, Cesare
Italian painter, born in Milan in 1922, he studied at the Brera Academy in Milan and trained in contact with the Corrente group by participating in the Premio Bergamo in 1942. The artist began to exhibit from 1941 and therefore participated in numerous group exhibitions (Biennale in Venice, Quadiennale in Rome, Salon de Mai, etc.). […]
Tàpies, Antoni
Antoni Tàpies was born in Barcelona in 1923. A child with fragile health, he had a keen interest in drawing and painting. He studied law and commerce at the University of Barcelona and took drawing lessons at the Valls Academy. It will be deeply marked by the atrocities of the civil war. His first collages, […]