Lluís Garriga

LLUIS GARRIGA FELIP (El Masnou, 1963).
"Refuge".
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed.
Certificate of authenticity attached.
Measurements: 100 x 81 cm.

He began his studies in plastic arts at an early age, studying charcoal drawing and painting with different academies in Barcelona. He won prizes in drawing and painting. Exhibitions: Sala d'exposicions i actes culturals La Calàndria,Masnou, 1975. El Casino el Masnou, 1979. Gallery Adrià Barcelona, 1980. Cultural hall El cau Mataró, 1980. Restaurant Can Toni, Barcelona, 1985. Exhibitions in diverse cultural halls of Barcelona, Madrid, throughout the 90's and in 2000. Exhibition at Galeria Marquez, Barcelona, 2016. Participation in the International Fair Art Vancouver, Canada, 2017. Influenced by Abstract Expressionism and inspired by the works of: Jackson Pollock, Antoni Tapies, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, José Guerrero, Miquel Barceló, Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, among others. "In everything, the work of Lluis Garriga is pure instant of labor with time, energy transferred to the support. Surrealism, psychedelia...the film of forms that reveals a whole of color kneaded or meandering not to be one, but the point of convergence where everything reaches another dimension of its nature. In his work is the weight of the matter and the ephemeral, the susceptible of blowing to be changeable and never stop. Sometimes, the artist acts on the support as an extension of himself, even perceiving such an extreme. In this way, his way, he builds a kind of accumulated bodies. Bodies without defined form, but matter of body in its modulations that the color turns into an endless chaining. Chained works, one after another of links defined in the plurality of one's own becoming, of one's own being, of one's own person, of one's own existence that cannot but be multiple in order to be one. In each and every one of them is Lluis Garriga. In the multiplication, in the mystery of the eternal movement to reveal that the best way to keep all the mystery of the world is precisely in the absolute transparency" (Juan Antonio Tinte, Professor Complutense University).