Josep Grau-Garriga
Spanish, (active 1929–2011)
Garriga Grau was born in Sant Cugat, Cataluña, Spain in 1929. Trained at the Barcelona Faculty of Fine Arts, Grau is an accomplished artist with works held at several major museums and public collections. His works often express his inner world through formal and stylistic themes. He takes us into surrealist informalism with a vision that is highly personal in its interpretation. Like many other twentieth century artists, he is committed to his times, valuing art as a forum for the expression of political or social protest against the injustices that still plague humanity. This painter and maker of unique tapestry art, was born in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain. He studied at the Escola de Belles Arts in Barcelona, earning a prize for etching. He held his first exhibition of etchings in 1953 and followed this with an exhibition of murals in 1954. He was appointed director of the Escola Catalana de Tapís in 1959. His exhibition of tapestries in Barcelona (1961) was so well received that during the next year he exhibited many times in several cities. He painted the glass windows for the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Rome in 1966. By the late 1960s he had solo exhibitions internationally, including consecutive years in New York City. This painting is from that significant period in a continuing career. His work from that decade was the subject of a major retrospective in 1971 at the Museum of Houston. His work can be seen in the contemporary section in the Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona. We will be posting a more complete biography in the near future. Check out more work under paintings and sculpture. Josep Grau-Garriga was born in Sant Cugat, Cataluña, Spain in 1929. Trained at the Barcelona Faculty of Fine Arts, Grau is an accomplished artist with works held at several major museums and public collections. The end of World War II marked the beginning of a new era for the arts in Europe and the United States. The Spanish artist Josep Grau-Garriga was inspired by traditional tapestries, especially medieval tapestries seen in his native Catalonian churches and those of the French master Jean Lurçat (1892–1966). He became dissatisfied with the limited creativity that existed in the traditional interplay of warp and weft, and began to explore the possibilities of three-dimensional tapestry form, achieving a strong sculptural effect in his wall hangings. Grau-Garriga also introduced other materials into his work, such as jute, aluminum, copper, and synthetic fibers, as well as wool, cotton, and silk. These materials gave texture to his works, which became totally abstract. At times, Grau-Garriga abandoned the wall in favor of tapestries designed to be viewed from all sides, such as in Doña Catalana His works often express his inner world through formal and stylistic themes. He takes us into surrealist informalism with a vision that is highly personal in its interpretation. Like many other twentieth century artists, he is committed to his times, valuing art as a forum for the expression of political or social protest against the injustices that still plague humanity.
Josep Grau-Garriga ( San Cugat del Vallés , February 18 of 1928 - Angers , August 29 of 2011 ) was an artist from Catalonia , Spain , muralist and one of the innovators of Skin contemporary, whose work is in the best museums the world. Josep Grau-Garriga ( Sant Cugat , February 18 of 1929 - Angers , Pays de la Loire , August 29 of 2011 ) was a Catalan artist who cultivated various techniques: painting , the drawing , the engraving , the mural painting , the sculpture and especially the carpet . He was the director of the Catalan School of Tapestry and exhibited his works around the world that the artist became more international Sant Cugat. Biography Born into a peasant family who spent the difficulties of the Civil War and especially after the war, and lived, like many others, prison and exile. This is the atmosphere where Joseph discovered his vocation for the art. Youth Sketch of mural Grau-Garriga at the hermitage of Sant Measure of 1948 that came out. In the early forties and get discovered early influences than previously named Art Museum of Catalonia , and its frescoes and paintings Romanesque and Gothic . The year 1943 is integrated into an advertising and design studio where he could channel their artistic interests. At the same time as an artist first formed in the Market and then to the School of Fine Arts . In the fifties began to practice religious-themed mural style postcubista which gives you a special impact, performing works by the magnitude of the wall of the chapel of Christ lakes (Sant Cugat, 1956 ) or in the sanctuary of Santa Maria de Paretdelgada ( La Selva del Camp , 1959 ). House Aymat The 1956 Miguel Samaranch employer was looking to revitalize the old house Aymat Sant Cugat dedicated to the production of carpets and tapestries. Samaranch gives responsibility for the artistic direction of the company in which it was organized a small workshop of experimental tapestry. A year later ( 1957 ) the company paid its first trip to France , where he meets about the technique of tapestry medieval and contemporary art that will revolutionize it and give it international significance. Personally known to the painter and poet Frenchman Jean Lurçat , considered a master of modern upholstery and a benchmark of this renewal, who the following year, 1958 , to collaborate in his studio in Saint Céré , the Department of ' Lot . Bring the expertise acquired in France and conceptual and applied with slight differences and local contributions. Thus, Grau-Garriga, as artistic director, and his disciples in the house Aymat put the foundations of what has been called the Catalan School of Tapestry . He was the theoretician of the movement that led them there. For almost two decades, the most important artists of the time involved and there were new concepts to emerge from the center were transformed textile art both nationally and internationally. Early exhibitions The 1964 presents the first solo exhibition in the country's tapestry room Gaspar de Barcelona . The following year made ??his first trip abroad to participate in the II Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie Moderne de Lausanne , which gives you a special public recognition. In 1969 , the Institute of International Education in New York granted a scholarship that will allow you to install up to New York for a year and travel across the United States , Mexico and Canada . During the seventies he combines his work with a remarkable job teaching, giving workshops and courses. Maturity Tapestries of Grau-Garriga in St. Julian Argentona Include the retrospective will be dedicated in 1988 at the Palau Robert in Barcelona. In 2004 his home town makes him a tribute, the "Year Grau-Garriga," which includes, among other things, a double exhibition of recent work and another dedicated to his roots as an artist. Since 2007 , a tapestry artist presides over the lobby of the new municipality of Sant Cugat. The tapestry consists of four parts red and yellow made from various materials including copper wire are the different thicknesses which give the work a transparent appearance. He died at Angers on 29 August 2011, where he spent the best years of his life, especially to Saint Mathurin sur Loire , with his family. Exhibitions Singles: 1964. Sala Gaspar. Barcelona 1967. Exhibition Hall Address Gral. Fine Arts. Madrid 1968. Hall F. Domingo. Sao Paulo (Brazil) 1968. Gallery Demeure. Paris 1970. The Cordova Museum. Lincoln. Massachusetts. (USA) 1970. The Houston Fine Arts Museum. Houston. (USA) 1971/75. The Birmingham Museum of Fine Arts. Birmingham. (USA) 1971/73/74/83. Arras Gallery. New York (USA) 1972. Board Room of the Valleys. Andorra la Vella (Principality of Andorra) 1972. Gallery Antoñana. Caracas (Venezuela) 1973. René Gallery Metrás. Barcelona 1973. Textile Museum. Terrace 1974. Los Angeles Country Museum. Los Angeles. (USA) 1981. Palau de la UNESCO. Paris 1982/85. Cloisters of the Royal Monastery. Sant Cugat 1982. Cite of Carcassonne. Carcassone (France) 1987. Museo Rufino Tamayo. Mexico City 1988. Palau Robert. Barcelona 1989. Museum Jean Lurçat. Angers (France) 1990. History Museum. Sabadell 1990/96/99. Appearance Art Gallery. Sant Cugat 1992. Cultural Centre Can mule. Mollet del Valles 1992. Galeria Punto. Valencia 1992. Centro Cultural Francisco Abidja. Abidja (Ivory Coast) 1993. Temple Rome. Vic 1999. Gallery Bennasar. Madrid 1999. Gallery Blanquerna. Madrid Collective (selection): 1989. Contemporary Catalan painting. Traveling. Uruguay and Brazil 1989. Institut Francais. Barcelona 1990. VIIIème Salon d'Art Contemporain. Bourg and Bresse (France) 1990. Halle au Bleau. Saint Malo (France) 1991. Comune di Vizenza. Vizenza 1997. Loading Pignon. Lille (France) 1998. Loading Mantero. Como (Italy) 1999. Festival Estival. Trélazé 1982/2000. Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art Catalan. Appearance Art Gallery. Sant Cugat. Traveling.
Spanish, (active 1929–2011)
Garriga Grau was born in Sant Cugat, Cataluña, Spain in 1929. Trained at the Barcelona Faculty of Fine Arts, Grau is an accomplished artist with works held at several major museums and public collections. His works often express his inner world through formal and stylistic themes. He takes us into surrealist informalism with a vision that is highly personal in its interpretation. Like many other twentieth century artists, he is committed to his times, valuing art as a forum for the expression of political or social protest against the injustices that still plague humanity. This painter and maker of unique tapestry art, was born in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain. He studied at the Escola de Belles Arts in Barcelona, earning a prize for etching. He held his first exhibition of etchings in 1953 and followed this with an exhibition of murals in 1954. He was appointed director of the Escola Catalana de Tapís in 1959. His exhibition of tapestries in Barcelona (1961) was so well received that during the next year he exhibited many times in several cities. He painted the glass windows for the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Rome in 1966. By the late 1960s he had solo exhibitions internationally, including consecutive years in New York City. This painting is from that significant period in a continuing career. His work from that decade was the subject of a major retrospective in 1971 at the Museum of Houston. His work can be seen in the contemporary section in the Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona. We will be posting a more complete biography in the near future. Check out more work under paintings and sculpture. Josep Grau-Garriga was born in Sant Cugat, Cataluña, Spain in 1929. Trained at the Barcelona Faculty of Fine Arts, Grau is an accomplished artist with works held at several major museums and public collections. The end of World War II marked the beginning of a new era for the arts in Europe and the United States. The Spanish artist Josep Grau-Garriga was inspired by traditional tapestries, especially medieval tapestries seen in his native Catalonian churches and those of the French master Jean Lurçat (1892–1966). He became dissatisfied with the limited creativity that existed in the traditional interplay of warp and weft, and began to explore the possibilities of three-dimensional tapestry form, achieving a strong sculptural effect in his wall hangings. Grau-Garriga also introduced other materials into his work, such as jute, aluminum, copper, and synthetic fibers, as well as wool, cotton, and silk. These materials gave texture to his works, which became totally abstract. At times, Grau-Garriga abandoned the wall in favor of tapestries designed to be viewed from all sides, such as in Doña Catalana His works often express his inner world through formal and stylistic themes. He takes us into surrealist informalism with a vision that is highly personal in its interpretation. Like many other twentieth century artists, he is committed to his times, valuing art as a forum for the expression of political or social protest against the injustices that still plague humanity.
Josep Grau-Garriga ( San Cugat del Vallés , February 18 of 1928 - Angers , August 29 of 2011 ) was an artist from Catalonia , Spain , muralist and one of the innovators of Skin contemporary, whose work is in the best museums the world. Josep Grau-Garriga ( Sant Cugat , February 18 of 1929 - Angers , Pays de la Loire , August 29 of 2011 ) was a Catalan artist who cultivated various techniques: painting , the drawing , the engraving , the mural painting , the sculpture and especially the carpet . He was the director of the Catalan School of Tapestry and exhibited his works around the world that the artist became more international Sant Cugat. Biography Born into a peasant family who spent the difficulties of the Civil War and especially after the war, and lived, like many others, prison and exile. This is the atmosphere where Joseph discovered his vocation for the art. Youth Sketch of mural Grau-Garriga at the hermitage of Sant Measure of 1948 that came out. In the early forties and get discovered early influences than previously named Art Museum of Catalonia , and its frescoes and paintings Romanesque and Gothic . The year 1943 is integrated into an advertising and design studio where he could channel their artistic interests. At the same time as an artist first formed in the Market and then to the School of Fine Arts . In the fifties began to practice religious-themed mural style postcubista which gives you a special impact, performing works by the magnitude of the wall of the chapel of Christ lakes (Sant Cugat, 1956 ) or in the sanctuary of Santa Maria de Paretdelgada ( La Selva del Camp , 1959 ). House Aymat The 1956 Miguel Samaranch employer was looking to revitalize the old house Aymat Sant Cugat dedicated to the production of carpets and tapestries. Samaranch gives responsibility for the artistic direction of the company in which it was organized a small workshop of experimental tapestry. A year later ( 1957 ) the company paid its first trip to France , where he meets about the technique of tapestry medieval and contemporary art that will revolutionize it and give it international significance. Personally known to the painter and poet Frenchman Jean Lurçat , considered a master of modern upholstery and a benchmark of this renewal, who the following year, 1958 , to collaborate in his studio in Saint Céré , the Department of ' Lot . Bring the expertise acquired in France and conceptual and applied with slight differences and local contributions. Thus, Grau-Garriga, as artistic director, and his disciples in the house Aymat put the foundations of what has been called the Catalan School of Tapestry . He was the theoretician of the movement that led them there. For almost two decades, the most important artists of the time involved and there were new concepts to emerge from the center were transformed textile art both nationally and internationally. Early exhibitions The 1964 presents the first solo exhibition in the country's tapestry room Gaspar de Barcelona . The following year made ??his first trip abroad to participate in the II Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie Moderne de Lausanne , which gives you a special public recognition. In 1969 , the Institute of International Education in New York granted a scholarship that will allow you to install up to New York for a year and travel across the United States , Mexico and Canada . During the seventies he combines his work with a remarkable job teaching, giving workshops and courses. Maturity Tapestries of Grau-Garriga in St. Julian Argentona Include the retrospective will be dedicated in 1988 at the Palau Robert in Barcelona. In 2004 his home town makes him a tribute, the "Year Grau-Garriga," which includes, among other things, a double exhibition of recent work and another dedicated to his roots as an artist. Since 2007 , a tapestry artist presides over the lobby of the new municipality of Sant Cugat. The tapestry consists of four parts red and yellow made from various materials including copper wire are the different thicknesses which give the work a transparent appearance. He died at Angers on 29 August 2011, where he spent the best years of his life, especially to Saint Mathurin sur Loire , with his family. Exhibitions Singles: 1964. Sala Gaspar. Barcelona 1967. Exhibition Hall Address Gral. Fine Arts. Madrid 1968. Hall F. Domingo. Sao Paulo (Brazil) 1968. Gallery Demeure. Paris 1970. The Cordova Museum. Lincoln. Massachusetts. (USA) 1970. The Houston Fine Arts Museum. Houston. (USA) 1971/75. The Birmingham Museum of Fine Arts. Birmingham. (USA) 1971/73/74/83. Arras Gallery. New York (USA) 1972. Board Room of the Valleys. Andorra la Vella (Principality of Andorra) 1972. Gallery Antoñana. Caracas (Venezuela) 1973. René Gallery Metrás. Barcelona 1973. Textile Museum. Terrace 1974. Los Angeles Country Museum. Los Angeles. (USA) 1981. Palau de la UNESCO. Paris 1982/85. Cloisters of the Royal Monastery. Sant Cugat 1982. Cite of Carcassonne. Carcassone (France) 1987. Museo Rufino Tamayo. Mexico City 1988. Palau Robert. Barcelona 1989. Museum Jean Lurçat. Angers (France) 1990. History Museum. Sabadell 1990/96/99. Appearance Art Gallery. Sant Cugat 1992. Cultural Centre Can mule. Mollet del Valles 1992. Galeria Punto. Valencia 1992. Centro Cultural Francisco Abidja. Abidja (Ivory Coast) 1993. Temple Rome. Vic 1999. Gallery Bennasar. Madrid 1999. Gallery Blanquerna. Madrid Collective (selection): 1989. Contemporary Catalan painting. Traveling. Uruguay and Brazil 1989. Institut Francais. Barcelona 1990. VIIIème Salon d'Art Contemporain. Bourg and Bresse (France) 1990. Halle au Bleau. Saint Malo (France) 1991. Comune di Vizenza. Vizenza 1997. Loading Pignon. Lille (France) 1998. Loading Mantero. Como (Italy) 1999. Festival Estival. Trélazé 1982/2000. Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art Catalan. Appearance Art Gallery. Sant Cugat. Traveling.
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