Miquel Barceló

Miquel Barceló, Miquel Barceló completely Artigues, ( * 1957 in Felanitx, Mallorca) is a Spanish painter and sculptor.

Barceló draws on his extensive work in matters of religion, anthropomorphism and the environment. This leads to an " extended definition of art " in the selection of materials (often organic), and in the way ( Action Painting) expresses itself.

Life

Miquel Barceló studied at the School of Decorative Arts in Palma de Mallorca and at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona to close later, the Majorcan group for conceptual art Whimsy Workshop ( Taller Llunàtic ). He was committed to environmental issues and was a member of an environmental group in Mallorca. Since that first time, his work reflects an interest in nature motifs, which has exerted a major influence on his younger contemporaries.

International attention Barceló after his participation at the São Paulo Biennale in 1981 and at Documenta in Kassel in 1982.

His travels and stays in Europe ( he maintains a studio in Paris), the United States and West Africa (Mali ), where he has another residence, his artistic career have identified over the past years.

Work

In Hanover, was outlined as his work in his only previous exhibition in Germany: "He (effective ) for a language that the ever brings forth seen in the great and eternal containers of our memory: the earth with plants, the horizon of the sea, the sky, the beaches, the shaft, the cave ".

Since March 2007, the Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca is home to an oversized ceramic artist's work, which gave rise to violent polemics. Contemporary art in a 700 year old Cathedral, which is the biblical story of the miraculous multiplication of bread and fish, is fantastic in its objectivity and solved in the Spanish press a dispute over from what art should. Barceló did not attend the inauguration exhibition and described himself as an agnostic, which led to further controversy. The ceramic is less than 300 square meters and covers an entire chapel, with five glass windows were also designed by the artist.

In early 2007 began Miquel Barceló in Geneva working on the ceiling design of the hall XX at the Palais des Nations. The subtended by the 1500 -square-foot ceiling painting new session hall of the UN Human Rights Council was inaugurated on 18 November 2008.

In Germany in 2005 from him a large book illustration for " Purgatory " of Dante's Divina commedia published, so his work is now easily accessible.

Awards (selection)

2003 is the Barceló Prince of Asturias Award

In 2007 he received the honorary doctorate of the University of the Balearic Islands