Josep Niebla

JOSEP NIEBLA (Tetouan, Morocco, 1945-2021).
Untitled, 1975.
Mixed media on panel.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 50 x 69 cm; 60 x 79 cm (frame).
Expressionist painter, adopted from Girona in the 1960s. He studied Fine Arts in Tetuan, which he extended in Seville, Barcelona and Paris. In 1962 he decided to settle in Girona, where he took an active part in the life of the country, until he set up his house-workshop in a farmhouse in Casavells, in the Baix Empordà. Since 1961, when he presented his first individual exhibition at the Centro Cultural de Ceuta, he has held almost 200 exhibitions in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. In 1975 he won the grand prize at the Barcelona International Biennial. In 1982 he painted a large painting commissioned by the town council of Playa de Aro with letters of the alphabet as a pictorial motif and various objects (wood, neon, X-rays) on canvas. He has painted other large murals (Sant Feliu de Guíxols, 1984; Buenos Aires, 1987-88 and Barcelona, 1992), and has also produced posters, engravings, collages and illustrations for bibliophile books. He has often exhibited both in Spain and abroad, and in 1992 a retrospective exhibition of his work was held in Girona. Since the 1980s he has lived in Casavells, where he has his studio and his foundation.