New exhibition season
We are back from vacation and we welcome you to the Sala Rusiñol
We begin the Season 2021-2022 with the exhibition of Joaquín Mateo that we will inaugurate on September 9th at 7 pm.
Born in Escatrón (Zaragoza, 1958), in 1975 he began his artistic studies at the School of Applied Arts and Artistic Trades of Barcelona and in 1976 he entered the Faculty of Fine Arts Sant Jordi de Barcelona. In 1982 he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in this Faculty and in 1988 he passed the free examinations of Draw as an added numerary professor of secondary education in Plastic and Visual Education. He completed doctoral studies on the representation of anatomical knowledge in the scientific and artistic iconography of the human body, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Barcelona.
Since 1975, the year in which he holds his first exhibition, he has shown us his work in several halls, galleries, art fairs, contests and competitions of national and international character, obtaining important distinctions. His works always revolve around the human being, present or not, graphically. We sense their presence by the objects that we usually use in our daily life: armchairs, books, cups, coffee makers, newspapers, pencils, signs …
Mateo’s pictorial ability is wide and he successfully taps several emotional registers. The individual rooms appeal to the intimate refuge of the person where reflection and introspective activity take place, while the street is the space of socialization par excellence and where we discover the unfathomable variety of the world and human realizations.
To be highlighted, in most of the works, the light and the windows, which act as eyes through which we perceive the exterior, the creation, the universe.
