Josep Costa i Vila

Josep Costa i Vila (* 1953 in Granollers near Barcelona ) is a contemporary Catalan painter whose paintings and collages bring people and architecture together in typical city scenes - for example in his Barcelona works - in a highly specific way. These cityscapes have made Costa i Vila very famous as a painter in Spain. Costa i Vila currently lives and works in Girona .

Life

Costa i Vila graduated from the Sant Jordi Art School in Barcelona from 1969 to 1974. From 1974 to 1977 he attended the Massana Art Academy in Barcelona.

The urban scenes of Costa i Vila describe human existence as both collective and personal-individual. On the one hand, his works suggest the ideas, feelings, feelings and dreams of the people portrayed. On the other hand, the numbness and callousness in an urban environment can also be identified in these people. This ambiguity of the human form of existence has to be recorded and processed by every viewer of the pictures by Costa i Vila and thus establish a distance to himself in order to then ask the human question on the basis of the pictures himself. The architectural environment poses no problem for Costa i Vila. The building façades are pictorially described perfectly. On the other hand, the painter seeks a great artistic distance from people - whether portrayed individually or collectively. The people - such as a shopper or a cyclist on the Rambla in Barcelona - dissolve into color reflections or move away from the picture in striving movements. His sensitivity as an artist tells Costa i Vila that he must not interfere in facts that he himself is a witness or in which he is deeply involved as a person. The surrounding architecture and culture, on the other hand, warns in the pictures: “Build your life on a solid, orderly foundation; in this way you will grow into the harmony that the spirit demands. ”Costa i Vila never depicts city, sea and mountains in a confrontation. For Costa i Vila, the city as the carrier of culture is always the center for people; but without nature there would be no life and the human spirit (including the human spirit in the city) is ultimately the one who brings with it the transcendental meaning of world and life.

literature

• Vicenç Coromina i Bartrina (ed.): Artistas y Pintores de España . 1st edition. VC Ediciones de Arte, Girona 2001, OCLC 803841666 (Spanish, no page numbers , with a brief introduction to the painter "Josep Costa i Vila" and 11 images of the artist's paintings on 6 pages).

Web links

• Costavila.com: Josep Costa i Vila. Retrieved June 2, 2018 (Catalan). 
• Josep Costa i Vila (blog). Blogspot.com, accessed June 2, 2018 (Catalan).