Vicenç Viaplana

VICENÇ VILAPLANA (Granollers, Barcelona, 1955).
Untitled. 1986.
Mixed media on metal plate.
Signed in the lower margin.
Measurements: 33 x 32 cm; 50,5 x 50,5 cm (frame).
Vicenç Viaplana develops a work centered in making visible the ethereal, the immaterial, for which he captures with mastery the luminous effects and gives form to vaporous shades. Each of his works is a new exploration that accumulates experience and sensitivity, and opens questions about the certainty of our perceptions. His distortion of reality, the concealment of objects and the blurring of images provoke multiple messages that wander between abstraction and figuration. Viaplana made his solo debut in 1975, at the Ciento gallery in Barcelona, and since then he has held personal exhibitions both in this city and in Madrid, Ibiza, New York, Kyoto, Groningen, Tokyo, Basiela, etc. He has also taken part in outstanding group exhibitions all over the world, among them the "G Gallery" Teatru Studio in Warsaw (1977), Armory in New York (1990), Runkel Hue Williams in London (1993), Reflex in Amsterdam (1993), the Royal Ueno Museum in Tokyo (1995), the Reinickendorf Hall in Berlin (1996), the Cervantes Institute in Munich (1996) and the Pelaires Hall in Palma (2003), among many other galleries and art centers all over the world. Since 1978 he has combined painting with design, having worked for prominent clients such as the restaurant "El Bulli", the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, the MACBA shop-bookshop, the Centro Insular de Cultura de Las Palmas, the Diputación de Barcelona, etc. He has also designed the "Pisa" bookshelf, the "Tanatona" lamp and the "Oa" tables for Tresce. He is currently represented in the Museum of Granollers, the Vilacasas and Soriguè Foundations, and the collections of Fundació La Caixa, Ernesto Ventós Omedes, Josep Mª Civit, Tous-de Pedro, Runkel Hue Williams, Prudential Securities, Vreg Baghomian and Aaron B. Kratz.