MODEST CUIXART I TÀPIES (Barcelona, 1925 - Palafrugell, Gerona, 2007). "Untitled", 1957. Mixed technique on canvas. Signed and dated on the back.

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  MODEST CUIXART I TÀPIES (Barcelona, 1925 - Palafrugell, Gerona, 2007). "Untitled", 1957. Mixed technique on canvas. Signed and dated on the back. Measurements: 92 x 73 cm; 96 x 77 cm (frame). This work is part of the stage developed by Cuixart in the fifties, marked by a deep and rich informalism. In these years the painter will work with the strength of thick materials and "grattage" (from 1957), creating dense and baroque works in which he will introduce all kinds of objects. His work from this period will be recognized in 1959, with the Grand Prize for Painting at the V Biennial of São Paulo. Cuixart initially studied medicine, but soon abandoned his studies to devote himself to painting, and entered the Academia Libre de Pintura in Barcelona. In 1948 he participated in the founding of the group Dau al Set, together with Brossa, Ponç, Tàpies and Tharrats, among others. Concerned with the plastic value of the sign, his work has from the beginning a strong kinship with surrealism, as well as a great sensitivity to the expressive power of color. Towards 1955 he immersed himself in material informalism, which led him to use the "grattage" in works with a certain orientalist flavour. In 1959 he won first prize at the São Paulo Biennial and exhibited at the Documenta in Kassel, and the following year he took part in an exhibition of Spanish avant-garde art held at the Tate Gallery in London and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Cuixart introduces collage in his work in 1962, which will gradually lead him towards pop-art. Enriched by all these experiences, he returns again to flat painting, reaching a very personal critical realism, which synthesizes expressionism with dramatically transformed figuration, always valuing the chromatic qualities. In the seventies he exhibited in numerous national and international capitals, such as Paris, Madrid, São Paulo, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Basel, Barcelona and Milan, among others. In the following decade, Cuixart gradually freed his painting from its aggressive aspects to give it a more lyrical tone. In addition, he participates in a group exhibition at the UNESCO Palace in Paris, receives the Cross of St. George of the Generalitat of Catalonia, and the Cross of Isabella the Catholic. In 1988, he holds an anthological exhibition in Japan, in the cities of Kobe and Tokyo. He continues to work with exuberant colors and shapes, and reincorporates a more material figuration to his work. In 1998 the foundation that bears his name was created in Palafrugell, and the following year he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts by the Ministry of Culture. He is represented in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Tate Gallery in London, the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Madrid, Barcelona and Saint-Etienne (France), the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the Museo de Grabado Español Contemporáneo in Marbella, the Museo de Arte de la Universidad de São Paulo, the Museo de Arte Abstracto in Cuenca and the Museo del Ampurdán, among many others.
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