Xavier Grau was a Spanish artist who trained and taught at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. He started as a conceptual artist but later devoted himself fully to painting. He was part of the... Read full biography
Xavier Grau was a Spanish artist who trained and taught at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. He started as a conceptual artist but later devoted himself fully to painting. He was part of the "painting-painting" movement in Catalonia, which vindicated pictorial practice from the perspective of... Read full biography
Xavier Grau was a Spanish artist who trained and taught at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. He started as a conceptual artist but later devoted himself fully to painting. He was part of the "painting-painting" movement in Catalonia, which vindicated pictorial practice from the perspective of abstract language. Grau's work evolved towards an abstraction that maintained the internal tension between color and drawing without reducing the vividness of the color or the movement of its surfaces,... Read full biography
Xavier Grau was a Spanish artist who trained and taught at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. He started as a conceptual artist but later devoted himself fully to painting. He was part of the "painting-painting" movement in Catalonia, which vindicated pictorial practice from the perspective of abstract language. Grau's work evolved towards an abstraction that maintained the internal tension between color and drawing without reducing the vividness of the color or the movement of its surfaces, contained by a rhythmic formal structure. His personal exhibitions include those held at the Maeght gallery in Paris, the Salvador Riera and Carles Taché galleries in Barcelona, the Luis Adelantado gallery in Valencia, and the Antonio Machón gallery... Read full biography
Xavier Grau was a Spanish artist who trained and taught at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. He started as a conceptual artist but later devoted himself fully to painting. He was part of the "painting-painting" movement in Catalonia, which vindicated pictorial practice from the perspective of abstract language. Grau's work evolved towards an abstraction that maintained the internal tension between color and drawing without reducing the vividness of the color or the movement of its surfaces, contained by a rhythmic formal structure. His personal exhibitions include those held at the Maeght gallery in Paris, the Salvador Riera and Carles Taché galleries in Barcelona, the Luis Adelantado gallery in Valencia, and the Antonio Machón gallery in Madrid. He is represented at the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the MACBA in Barcelona, the Centro Conde Duque in... Read full biography
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