JOAN PONÇ (Barcelona, 1927 - Saint-Paul, France, 1984). "Flamenco dancer". Oil on panel. Signed on the back.

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  JOAN PONÇ (Barcelona, 1927 - Saint-Paul, France, 1984). "Flamenco dancer". Oil on panel. Signed on the back. Measurements: 112 x 45 cm .; 130 x 73 cm. (Frame). Joan Ponç approached the world of flamenco on several occasions, as shown for example in his series of figurines for the ballet of Antonio Gades. In this painting, the torso of a dancer wearing fantasy attire is outlined against an emerald background, a color often used by Ponç to enter his nocturnal and magical universes. The character raises her arms and waves her castanets. His face of angular features expresses a concentrated intensity. A profane sacredness emanates from him, taking us through the use of color and formal synthesis into the enigma of art, in this case, dance. Painter and draftsman, Joan Ponç was trained in Barcelona, in the workshop of Ramón Rogent and at the Academy of Plastic Arts with Ángel López-Obrero. After dedicating himself to painting and drawing in anonymity, he held his first individual exhibition in 1946, at the Art Gallery of Bilbao, which would mean his definitive consolidation within the national artistic panorama. In 1948 he founded, together with Tharrats, Puig, Cuixart, Tàpies and Brossa among others, the avant-garde group Dau al Set. Selected by Eugenio D'Ors, he participated in the Salón de los Once in Madrid in 1951 and 1952. In 1952 he took part in the Hispano-American Biennial, and the following year he spent some time in Paris, where he met Joan Miró and was able to exhibit at the Musée de la Villa. On the latter's recommendation, Ponç gained access to Brazilian artistic circles, settling in São Paulo from 1953 to 1962. In 1954, the year of the dissolution of Dau al Set, he held an exhibition at the city's Museum of Modern Art, with such success that the organization acquired all of the works. His trajectory describes a circular path over the years, almost without evolution, if we understand as such the change from one language to another, the variation of styles, the transformation of the unknowns that led him to paint. Ponç was a painter-poet, who used his brushes to discover the only world he knew, the most real of all, the world that lies in the depths of his own being. It is a world inhabited by strange creatures with half-human, half-animal bodies, by demons who make us participants in their acts, by deserted spaces in which symmetrical mounds, craters in line, Stygian lagoons under dark skies broken only by the brightness of the colored moons stand out. He is currently represented at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid, the MACBA in Barcelona, the Basque Center-Museum of Contemporary Art in Vitoria, the Museum of L'Empordà and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
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