Miquel Barceló
1957 (Felanitx)
Living in : Majorque, Paris, pays Dogon (Mali)
Working in : Majorque, Paris, pays Dogon (Mali)
Artist's webSite
Artist's gallery
Miquel Barceló was born in 1957 on the Spanish island of Majorca, where he lives, as well as in Paris and Mali (in the Dogon Country). At the beginning of his artistic career, he worked in drawing and painting, but then experimented with other mediums, such as sculpture and ceramics. Influenced by the work of Dubuffet and Tàpies, he quickly asserted himself as belonging to the neo-expressionist movement. The 1980s marked a stylistic change with a return to figurative painting; they coincided with his international recognition: the galleries Bruno Bishofberger, Leo Castelli and Yvon Lambert represented him. In 1991, a first retrospective of his work was presented at the Carré d'Art in Nîmes, and in 1992 the Spanish daily El País published a twenty-four page supplement on his African Travel Notes. His style is characterized by immense matierist formats and sculptures where organic structures and colored pigments are mixed. In 2007, he was entrusted with the decoration of a chapel in the cathedral of Palma de Mallorca. Numerous institutions, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the MACBA in Barcelona, the Louvre Museum and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, have exhibited his work, establishing it as one of the most influential of the last twenty years.
Living in : Majorque, Paris, pays Dogon (Mali)
Working in : Majorque, Paris, pays Dogon (Mali)
Artist's webSite
Artist's gallery
Miquel Barceló was born in 1957 on the Spanish island of Majorca, where he lives, as well as in Paris and Mali (in the Dogon Country). At the beginning of his artistic career, he worked in drawing and painting, but then experimented with other mediums, such as sculpture and ceramics. Influenced by the work of Dubuffet and Tàpies, he quickly asserted himself as belonging to the neo-expressionist movement. The 1980s marked a stylistic change with a return to figurative painting; they coincided with his international recognition: the galleries Bruno Bishofberger, Leo Castelli and Yvon Lambert represented him. In 1991, a first retrospective of his work was presented at the Carré d'Art in Nîmes, and in 1992 the Spanish daily El País published a twenty-four page supplement on his African Travel Notes. His style is characterized by immense matierist formats and sculptures where organic structures and colored pigments are mixed. In 2007, he was entrusted with the decoration of a chapel in the cathedral of Palma de Mallorca. Numerous institutions, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the MACBA in Barcelona, the Louvre Museum and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, have exhibited his work, establishing it as one of the most influential of the last twenty years.
Artist's exhibitions
Les Choses – une histoire de la nature morte
12/10/2022 - 23/01/2023
(Paris) Musée du Louvre
12/10/2022 - 23/01/2023
(Paris) Musée du Louvre
Saison d'art 2022
02/04/2022 - 30/10/2022
(Chaumont-sur-Loire) Domaine régional de Chaumont sur Loire
02/04/2022 - 30/10/2022
(Chaumont-sur-Loire) Domaine régional de Chaumont sur Loire
Saison d’art 2021 au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
03/04/2021 - 01/11/2021
(Chaumont-sur-Loire) Domaine régional de Chaumont sur Loire
03/04/2021 - 01/11/2021
(Chaumont-sur-Loire) Domaine régional de Chaumont sur Loire
Préhistoire et art contemporain
13/07/2019 - 18/08/2019
(Le Hezo) Atelier du Hezo / Art contemporain
13/07/2019 - 18/08/2019
(Le Hezo) Atelier du Hezo / Art contemporain
Préhistoire, une énigme moderne
08/05/2019 - 16/09/2019
(Paris) Centre Pompidou
08/05/2019 - 16/09/2019
(Paris) Centre Pompidou
Même pas peur ! Collection de la baronne Henri de Rothschild. Vanités d’hier et d’aujourd’hui
29/06/2018 - 30/09/2018
(Toulouse) Fondation Bemberg
29/06/2018 - 30/09/2018
(Toulouse) Fondation Bemberg
Miquel Barceló. Sol y sombra
22/03/2016 - 28/08/2016
(Paris) Bibliothèque nationale de France, site François-Mitterrand
22/03/2016 - 28/08/2016
(Paris) Bibliothèque nationale de France, site François-Mitterrand
Miquel Barceló. Sol y sombra
22/03/2016 - 31/07/2016
(Paris) Musée national Picasso
22/03/2016 - 31/07/2016
(Paris) Musée national Picasso
Picasso.mania
07/10/2015 - 29/02/2016
(Paris) Grand Palais
07/10/2015 - 29/02/2016
(Paris) Grand Palais
Rituels, poétique des origines
17/07/2015 - 03/10/2015
(Ibos) Le Parvis - Centre d'art contemporain de Pau
17/07/2015 - 03/10/2015
(Ibos) Le Parvis - Centre d'art contemporain de Pau
Le Peintre et l’arène – Art et tauromachie, de Goya à Barceló
28/06/2014 - 12/10/2014
(Paris) Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
28/06/2014 - 12/10/2014
(Paris) Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Portrait de Mallarmé-De Manet à Picasso
14/09/2013 - 16/12/2013
(Vulaines-sur-Seine) Musée Stéphane Mallarmé
14/09/2013 - 16/12/2013
(Vulaines-sur-Seine) Musée Stéphane Mallarmé
"Les Aventures de la vérité" Peinture et philosophie : un récit
29/06/2013 - 06/10/2013
(Saint-Paul-de-Vence) Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght
29/06/2013 - 06/10/2013
(Saint-Paul-de-Vence) Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght
Miquel Barceló - Terra Ignis
29/06/2013 - 12/11/2013
(Céret) Musée d’art Moderne de Céret
29/06/2013 - 12/11/2013
(Céret) Musée d’art Moderne de Céret
Mirages d'orient, grenades et figues de barbarie - Chassé-croisé en Méditerranée
08/12/2012 - 28/04/2013
(Avignon) Collection Lambert
08/12/2012 - 28/04/2013
(Avignon) Collection Lambert
Les chefs-d’œuvre de la donation Yvon Lambert
07/07/2012 - 11/11/2012
(Avignon) Collection Lambert
07/07/2012 - 11/11/2012
(Avignon) Collection Lambert
50 Artistes, une collection
17/12/2011 - 18/03/2012
(Saint-Paul-de-Vence) Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght
17/12/2011 - 18/03/2012
(Saint-Paul-de-Vence) Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght
Danser sa vie - Art et danse de 1900 à nos jours
23/11/2011 - 02/04/2012
(Paris) Centre Pompidou
23/11/2011 - 02/04/2012
(Paris) Centre Pompidou
Le papier à l’œuvre
09/06/2011 - 05/09/2011
(Paris) Musée du Louvre
09/06/2011 - 05/09/2011
(Paris) Musée du Louvre
Drawing time / le temps du dessin
07/05/2010 - 16/08/2010
(Reims) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims
07/05/2010 - 16/08/2010
(Reims) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims
artist_books
Portrait de Miquel Barceló en artiste pariétal
Cet ouvrage est né de la rencontre entre l’artiste Miquel Barceló et l’écrivain Pierre Péju. Ce dernier, qui avait imaginé la vie d’un sculpteur dans Le Rire de l’Ogre, ne pouvait en effet rester indifférent à l’oeuvre développée par Miquel Barceló depuis Paso Doble, spectacle monté en Avignon en 2006. Accompagné du chorégraphe et danseur Jospeh Nadj, l’artiste s’était ...