We inaugurate Miquel Cabanas exhibition
On Thursday, December 2 at 7:00 p.m., exhibition of the artist’s unpublished work to close the 35th anniversary of the Sala Rusiñol.
Born in the Sants neighborhood (Barcelona), on September 10, 1916, at the age of six he moved to Sant Cugat del Vallés. There were five brothers, and he was the smallest of the three boys.
From 1930 to 1933, he attended the School of Master Painters of Barcelona and obtained the First Prize for Decoration for three years in a row. He also won a poster contest against accidents, organized by the School itself and, in 1934, he was the winner of the poster contest Fira i Festes de Sant Cugat.
He combined his artistic vocation with his activity in the Colla de Bastoners, his participation as a theater actor and his love of cycling.
From 1934 to 1936 he was a student at the Academia Baixas and the Llotja de Barcelona, courses that he had to interrupt as a result of the outbreak of the Civil War. He fought alongside the Republic in the battle of the Ebro Delta. In 1939 he went into exile towards France and was interned in the Saint-Cyprien refugee camps. From 1939 to 1942 he will do his military service in Aranjuez.
Back in Barcelona, he entered the poster and decoration workshop of Joan Queralt Oliva as an officer, and in 1943 he established himself as a decorator painter in Sant Cugat del Vallè.s
In 1951 he married Adelina Castells Fàbregas. They will have three children: Ignasi, Frederic and Maria Rosa.
In 1970 he worked as a painting teacher at the Sant Cugat del Vallès Municipal School of Fine Arts. From that date and until 1981 also as Workshop Master, Technician of Pictorial Procedures of the International School of Mural Painting Miquel Farré, located in the Monastery of Sant Cugat, until its dissolution.
In 1974, on March 18, when he was painting some signs outside his workshop, he suffered a stroke and miraculously left.
In 1977 he held his first solo exhibition and was awarded numerous prizes. Among his exhibitions, it is worth highlighting that of Tribute that was exhibited in the Cultural Hall of the Caja de Madrid in Barcelona.
In the literary field, he obtains, among others, the First Honorable Mention in the 1981 Floral Games of Barcelona and in Sant Cugat del Vallés more than once the Natural Flower, Englantina and Viola, as well as reaching the title of Master in Gay Saber.
In 1985, the already non-existent art gallery Febo in Sant Cugat dedicated a solo exhibition to him.
The first exhibition he presented in the Rusiñol Gallery dates from 1987. Since then he has been a benchmark and the public has always devoted themselves to his work. That same year, on October 17, his wife, Adelina, and on August 22, 1990, his daughter, Maria Rosa, died. This meant for him a hard setback that thanks to painting and poetry he was able to bear.
In 1990 the book “Voliaina dotze tries de poemes” was published by his son Frederic, which was presented at the Sala Rusiñol.
In 1991, volume I of the collection “Homenatges Rusiñol” written by Francesc Galí was dedicated to him, accompanied by an extraordinary exhibition that was a great success.
Finally, in 1994, the city awarded him Santcugatense of the year for his human and artistic career. He died in Sant Cugat del Vallès, on May 13, 1995. That same year, “El llibre blau, passaport a l’eternitat” was published by the Columna publishing house and the Sant Cugat City Council located in the gardens of the Monastery a bust of his person, sculpture made by his son Federic.
In May 2010,in the Cotxeres de Sants, he was honored with the exhibition “Intimate Anthology”, an exhibition made up of drawings and poetic passages. Núria Feliu, during the inauguration recited several of his poems. That same year the volume “Intimate Anthology” is published.
In 2016, on December 2, the exhibition “El Sant Cugat de Miquel Cabanas” is inaugurated, with which he is honored on the centenary of his birth. And five years later, now, also on December 2, this exhibition of unpublished work is dedicated to him to close the celebrations of the 35th anniversary of the Sala Rusiñol.
Visit the complete exhibition at www.salarusinyol.net
