Joan Cardells

JOAN CARDELLS (Valencia, 1948).
"Codfish", 2001.
Mixed media on paper.
Signed, dated and titled.
Measurements: 49 x 25 cm; 100 x 75 cm (frame).

Trained at the School of Arts and Crafts and the School of Fine Arts of Valencia, Joan Cardells practices painting, drawing and sculpture, and has also worked as a designer of posters, newsletters and university publications, as well as being a member of the group Estampa Popular de Valencia. A member of Equipo Realidad with Jorge Ballester between 1966 and 1977, in 1982 he obtained the first important recognition of his career, the Cáceres Sculpture Prize awarded by the Institución Cultural El Brocense. Seven years later he was selected to participate in the collective exhibition "L'Art pour l'Europe. Sculpture Espagnole Contemporaine", held in Strasbourg (Council of Europe) and Stuttgart, and in 1990 he will hold an important individual exhibition at the IVAM. He is currently represented in that museum, as well as in the MNCA Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Chase Manhattan Bank collection, the Diputaciones of Valencia and Cáceres, the Arte Eder Museoa in Vitoria-Gasteiz and the Coca-Cola España and Caja de Burgos foundations.