Joan Gardy-Artigas
Joan Gardy Artigas -, ( born June 18, 1938 in Boulogne- Billancourt, Seine-et -Oise in France ) is a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist. He is best known for his collaboration with Joan Miró.
Life and work
Gardy Artigas, was born as the son of Josep Llorens Artigas i, a renowned ceramist and friend of Joan Miró. He began in 1958 to study at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris. In 1959 he met Alberto Giacometti know, who encouraged him to open a ceramics workshop in Paris, where he worked for Georges Braque and Marc Chagall. In 1960 he began, in addition to the operation of his workshop to create their own sculptures. For Miró he presented, along with his father, the monumental ceramic wall for the UNESCO building in Paris ago. Then asked him Miro to come back to Catalonia to perform in his father's workshop in El Raco Gallifa, a town north-west of Barcelona, further orders.
This cooperation ceramic wall paintings were created for the Harvard University, the Fondation Maeght in Saint -Paul -de- Vence, for the Barcelona airport, the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Wilhelm -Hack- Museum in Ludwigshafen, the IBM Building in Barcelona and for the Palais des Expositions et des Congres de Madrid. 1981 to 1982 he produced with the Miró 22 m high ceramic fountain Dona i Ocell (woman and bird ) for the Parc de Joan Miró in Barcelona. With Gardy Artigas - Help 1982 was a mosaic of Antoni Tàpies for the Plaça de Catalunya in Sant Boi de Llobregat, received the Gold Medal of the Catalonia region for the Tàpies. In 1990, he created for London with Tiled Fountain, a self-designed, hand-painted, glazed, ceramic existing, 5 × 10 m large fountain, which can be seen on the corner of Primrose Street / Appold Street.
In 1989 he founded - in memory of his father - the Fundació Josep Llorens Artigas Tallers in its original location in El Raco in Gallifa, where even today artists from around the world can work for up to six months. The workshop has been visited by many well-known artists who were to perform Gardy Artigas - their designs. The special of the kilns in El Raco is the heating by Japanese design with wood; arises while a special effect by ash components on the glaze. Gardy Artigas - is a member of the Board of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona.