Francesc Baiget Elias

FRANCESC BAIGET ELIAS (Santa Coloma de Cervelló, 1951).
"Party in the cathedral".
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed.
Certificate of authenticity attached.
Measurements: 130 x 130 cm.

Baiget develops a literary painting, descriptive in the classical way, as the author explains: "a mixture of tradition of metaphysical surrealism with irony".

He studied at the Massana School in Barcelona and at the School of Book Arts. In his youth, he worked as an illustrator and cartoonist in newspapers and magazines of all kinds: El Viejo Topo, Serra d'Or, Tele/exprés, Andalán, El Papus, as well as in most of the classic Catalan publications of the time: Presència, Canigó, Recull, Patufet, Oriflama, as well as El Drall and La Llufa. He has designed posters and posters for popular festivals and protest events. He published some books, such as CLERICARIUM, with a prologue by Quico Pi de la Serra, in 1983. MANIOBRES, manual of civil defense, with a foreword by Paco Candel, in 1985. Both published by Editorial Hacer. PETIT COSTUMARI, in 1991, published by Editorial El Llamp. He received a drawing award at the Círculo de Lectores in 1996. He participated in a group exhibition in Leipzig on the armies in Europe, just in the days when the Berlin Wall fell (for other causes), after which he began to devote himself to painting in large format, a period in which he exhibited at La Rosa de Foc, at the Teatre Lliure, Cotxeres Borrell, Rincón del Arte and Suris, individually and in numerous group exhibitions in Barcelona. He also exhibited at El Mirallet in Granollers, Café Sindicat in Banyoles, Can Massallera and Centre d'Art Can Castells in Sant Boi de Llobregat. On three occasions in Cidi Hiaya in Granada, in the gallery Le Scribe Brigitte Griffault in Montauban, in the gallery Traç d'Art in Sabadell and L'Estartit. He also participated in a collective exhibition at the Atocha Station in Madrid and in two at the Colonia Güell, at the Sala d'Art de l'Ateneu Unió and at the Centre d'Interpretació during one of the Modernist Festivals.