Miquel Barceló : on the sea /

Miquel Barceló : on the sea /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Barceló, Miquel, 1957- artist.
Imprint:	Salzburg : Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac [2018] ©2018
Description:	68 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:	English Spanish
Subject:	Barceló, Miquel, -- 1957- -- Exhibitions. Barceló, Miquel, -- 1957- -- Criticism and interpretation. Barceló, Miquel, -- 1957- Painting, Spanish -- 21st century -- Exhibitions. Ceramics -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11799540

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Varying Form of Title:	On the sea
Other authors / contributors:	Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- author. Castañal, José, editor. Doyle, Oona, editor. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Salzburg, Austria), host institution.
ISBN:	9783901935619 3901935614
Notes:	Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria, May 19-July 21, 2019.
Summary:	As one of the most important representatives of Spanish contemporary art, Barceló is known for his pastose, relief-like mixed media and expressive ceramics, which also show influences from Catalan tradition and from his travels to West Africa. The artist's native Mallorca, and in particular the view from the terrace of his home in Farrutx, inspired this new series of seascapes, in which the sky dominates the composition. The pastose application of paint renders the moist sea air, giving the pictures an atmospheric quality. Barceló paints water and air in shades of white and blue. Elements merge to create a world marked by transience. The changing forms of the sea and clouds are captured with a soft touch which blurs any defined outline. The shapes are nebulous, as though the sky could stand for the sea, and conversely. Paradoxically, Barceló renders liquidity with a dry surface.

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Summary:	On the Sea features the most recent series by Spanish painter Miquel Barcel (born 1957). The exhibition catalog presents his textural and atmospheric paintings inspired by the seascapes of his native Mallorca, alongside a text by Nobel Prize Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.
Item Description:	Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria, May 19-July 21, 2019.
Physical Description:	68 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
ISBN:	9783901935619 3901935614