Miquel Barceló

A VISIONARY

THE ARTIST

MIQUEL BARCELÓ is a Spanish-born contemporary artist known for his experimental approach to painting and sculpture. This world-renowned artist perfectly embodies the bridge between cultures as his art is a mix between many artistic movements from all around the world.

Portrait: © Xavier Forcioli, 2017
Cathedral “La Seu” – Chapel Sant Pere
Palma de Mallorca: © Agustí Torres, 2017

A TRAVELER

Indeed, throughout the 1980s he travelled extensively, fulfilling a constant thirst for cultural diversity by sharing his time between Paris, Mali and his native Majorca – always returning to Paris which became a second home and where he set up a second studio.

ECLECTIC STYLE

His influences were as wide-ranging as Velásquez, Tintoretto, Rembrandt and Dubuffet, and the time Barceló spent in different countries, his nomadism and peripatetic habits essentially influenced and inspired his work, most strongly his impressions of West Africa.

Portrait: © Xavier Forcioli, 2017

A VISIONARY

The artist behind the decorated ceiling of the United Nations building in Geneva, Miquel Barceló also exhibited at the Picasso Museum in Paris, and was the youngest artist ever to be exhibited at the Louvre.

Atrium of the French National Library
Paris: © André Morin, 2017
Celling of the United Nations building
Geneva: © Agustí Torres, 2017
“If there is a sense of continuity in the history of art it is certainly not linear, it implodes and explodes at once.”
MIQUEL BARCELÓ