Eduardo Arranz Bravo & Rafael Bartolozzi

EDUARDO ARRANZ BRAVO (Barcelona, 1941-2023) and RAFAEL BARTOLOZZI (Pamplona, 1943 - Vespella de Gaià, Tarragona, 2009).
"How to destroy your house".
Pine wood.
Exemplary 49/125.
Signed by both artists and justified.
Measurements: 39 x 26 x 15 cm.

Bartolozzi was grouped in the sixties with Eduardo Arranz, Gerard Sala and Robert Llimós, and until 1982 he continued to work with Arranz, both of them being introducers of the "happening" in Catalonia. In 1980 he participated in the Venice Biennale. In 2007 the Bartolozzi Foundation was created in Vespella de Gaià, with the aim of gathering and disseminating his work, as well as promoting the work of new artists. He is also represented at the MACBA in Barcelona, the Camón Aznar Museum in Zaragoza, the Contemporary Art Museums of Seville and Las Palmas and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Navarra, among others.

Trained in Barcelona, Paris, Madrid and Italy, Arranz made his individual debut at the University Club of Barcelona in 1961. In 1967 he abandoned the lyricism of his first period and approached the New Figuration. In the seventies he formed an artistic partnership with Rafael Lozano Bartolozzi, with whom he would carry out artistic projects that would mark the history of Spanish contemporary art for more than a decade. He has exhibited all over the world, and among his awards are the Grand Prize and Gold Medal at the International Biennial of Ibiza (1964), the Prize of the II Biennial of Sport (1964), the Figure Award of the Biennial Estrada Saladich (1967) and the Drawing Award YngladaGuillot (1968). His work is present in the MoMA in New York, the Museum of São Paulo, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid and the Fine Arts Museums of Vitoria and Seville.