Alfons Borrell i Palazón

Alfons Borrell i Palazón (Barcelona, June 33 June 1931) is an abstract Catalan painter.[1][2][3]

Life

Born in Barcelona in 1940 his family moved to Sabadell, where he Alfons Borrell live since he was 9 years old.[4] After several casual jobs in 1950 completed his military service in Port de Pollença (Mallorca), where he attended the workshop of Hermen Anglada Camarasa.[4] Back in Sabadell in 1952, he worked in the family jewelry store. In Barcelona, he made two free courses in life drawing at the Escola de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi drawing school, where in 1953 he met who would become his wife, Rosa.[4] In 1955 Borrell evolved from the figurative to abstract painting. The same year, he participated with Joaquim Montserrat in the creation of the Sala d'Art Actual Art Gallery in Sabadell and helped to create the Academy of Fine Arts of Sabadell. In 1957 and worked in the Riutort magazine directed by Andreu Castells, in Sabadell. In 1959 he met Juan-Eduardo Cirlot, which he later devoted an essay.[2]

In 1969 he joined the Grup Gallot (Gallot Group) with Antonio Angle, Llorenç Balsach i Grau, Joan Josep Bermúdez, Manuel Duque, Josep Llorens, Joaquim Montserrat and Lluís Vila Plana following the current of the action Painting, which various perform actions on the street, both in Sabadell and Barcelona. Invited by the art critic Cirici Pellicer, he participated in the inaugural exhibition of the first Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art at the top of Cinema Coliseum.[2] He married Rosa for years and their three children were born.

Solo exhibits

  • 1978 - Espai 10, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona.
  • 1979 - Galeria Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona.
  • 1987 - Galérie Anne Marie de Sacy, Paris.
  • 1988 - New York Exhibitions, New York
  • 1990 - Francony Gallery, Tokyo, Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California.
  • 1996 - Alfons Borrell o l'aura de pintura, travelling exhibit, several museums ins Catalonia
  • 2006 - Alfons Borrell o la celebració del color, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, l'Hospitalet de Llobregat.
  • 2007 - Alfons Borrell o la celebració del color, Museu d'Art de Sabadell, Sabadell, Catalonia.
  • 2011 – Alfons Borrell. Obra sobre paper 1956-2010, Fundació Palau, Caldes d'Estrac, Catalonia.
  • 2013 - Alfons Borrell. Obra sobre paper 1956-2010, Museu d'Art de Sabadell.
  • 2015 - Alfons Borrell. Els treballs i els dies, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona.

Awards

  • 2014 - GAC Award[5]

References

  1. ↑ Alfons Borrell Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana
  2. 1 2 3 Alfons Borrell o el aura de la pintura. Barcelona. 1996.
  3. ↑ Segade, Manuel (2014). Haver fet un lloc on els artistes tinguin dret a equivocar-se. Històries de l'Espai 10 i l'Espai 13 de la Fundació Joan Miró. Barcelona: Fundació Joan Miró. p. 77. ISBN 978-84-941239-8-6.
  4. 1 2 3 Maria Palau (8 January 2014). "Pinto com si donés menjar als ocells". El Punt Avui. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "Alfons Borrell rep el guardó honorífic dels galeristes catalans". Ara (in Catalan). 11 December 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
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