Joan Hernandez Pijuan
Joan Hernandez Pijuan
Barcelona, 1931
Biography:
1931
Born in Barcelona.
1945 – 1947
Student at the school of fine and technical arts La Llotja in Barcelona.
1952 – 1956
Student at the school of art Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de Sant Jordi in Barcelona.
1953
Takes part in collective exhibitions for the first time, with works that have expressionist styles and existential resonances.
1955 – 1956
First solo exhibition in the Mataró local gallery, presented by Rafael Santos Torroella. Takes part in several exhibitions.
Sketches his expressionism, which starts to reflect interest in volumes, sobriety in its approach and clear intention of ordering the elements.
1957 – 1958
Dirección General de Bellas Artes Award at the National Exhibition in Alicante. The living time in Paris provides him with direct experiences and a personal interpretation of the art informel.
Studies engraving and lithography at the Ecole des Beaux-Artes in Paris. Painting Award at the Peintres Résidents, Cité Universitaire in Paris. Returns to Barcelona, and after an exhibition at the Syra Gallery, embarks himself in a phase of action painting, featuring contrasts and violent explosions with predominant use of blacks and whites .
1960
Painting Award at the Primer Salón de Jazz in Granollers. Commissioned by José Bergamín to design the set for the play Medea Encantadora, during its opening in Barcelona.
1964 – 1965
Creates a series of five lithographs used by the publisher Gustavo Gili to launch the collection Les Estampes de la Cometa, which in the same are exhibited at the Renè Mètras Gallery in Barcelona, and are awarded the Maribor Prize at the VI International Engraving Biennial in Ljublijana.
1966 – 1967
The new series of lithographs Las Celdas is awarded at the I International Engraving Biennial in Krakow. The artist’s drawing stroke turns now into a geometrical and anatomical element. He is focusing his interests in empty spaces and the relations between the space and the objects around it. He gravitates towards still life by incorporating a section of an apple, an egg or a cup. Generally isolated, these objects give the space a metaphysical dimension.
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