MIQUEL BARCELÓ ARTIGUES (Felanitx, Mallorca, 1957).
"Animal amb tres pixarades", 1982.
Lithograph on Creysse paper, copy 66/100.
Edicions 6a Obra Gràfica, Palma de Mallorca.
Signed and numbered in pencil in the lower left-hand corner.
Exhibited and catalogued (Barceló 1973-1982) in the retrospective exhibition of the artist in 2010, Barcelona.
Edition with 100 copies plus 15 HC.
Size: 48,7 x 70 cm; 74,5 x 95,5 cm (frame).
A painter and sculptor, Barceló began his training at the School of Arts and Crafts in Palma de Mallorca. In 1974 he made his individual debut, at the age of seventeen, at the Galería Picarol in Mallorca. That same year he moved to Barcelona, where he enrolled at the Sant Jordi School, and made his first trip to Paris. In the French capital he discovered "art brut", a style that was to exert an important influence on his early works. In 1976 he holds his first solo exhibition in a museum: "Cadaverina 15" at the Museum of Mallorca, consisting of a montage of 225 wooden boxes with glass lids, with decomposing organic materials inside. In 1977 he made a second trip to Paris, and also visited London and Amsterdam. That same year he exhibited for the first time in Barcelona and met Javier Mariscal, who was to become one of his best friends in the city. Together with him and the photographer Antoni Catany, as a member of the magazine "Neón de Suro", he takes part in exhibitions in Canada and California. His international recognition began in the early 1980s, when he took part in the São Paulo Biennial (1981) and the Documenta in Kassel (1982). In 1986 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, and since then his work has been recognised by the most distinguished awards, such as the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts (2003) and the Sorolla Prize of the Hispanic Society of America in New York (2007). Barceló is currently represented in the most important contemporary art museums in the world, such as the MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Marugami Hirai in Japan, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the CAPC in Bordeaux, the Carré d'Art in Nimes, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, among others.