Ramon Enrich
Ramon Enrich (* 1968 in Igualada , Spain ) is a Catalan painter and sculptor .
Life
Ramon Enrich's artistic interest was aroused by his father, a knitwear manufacturer with a talent for drawing , music and architecture , which he pursued autodidactically. This artistic and musical environment encouraged Enrich from childhood.
He studied fine arts in Barcelona , as well as history (without a degree) and graphics . At the end of the 1980s he received several grants for work stays and exhibitions abroad. For a long time he was a guest fellow at the Mousonturm cultural center in Frankfurt am Main and for several work stays in Berlin . A great admirer of Donald Judd , he went to Marfa, Texas, USA, where Judd lived, in 1988. He exhibited the paintings he created during his stay in Texas in the Chinati Foundation and the Donald Judd Foundation. He then traveled to Los Angeles , where he met Ed Ruscha and worked with David Hockney . He later settled in New York for a while , where he assisted Julian Schnabel's studio .
Enrich had numerous exhibitions in Barcelona, Amsterdam , Hong Kong , New York, Brussels and Paris . He currently lives and works in Igualada near Barcelona.
The painterly work
There are a number of recurring themes in Enrich's paintings that deal with the relationship between architecture and landscape. He paints large, deserted-looking scenarios with some architectural and plant elements. He is particularly interested in simplifying and depicting the essentials of things. Large canvases with motionless, mysterious choreographies, based on a reality that obscures geometry and metaphysics. He plays with a multitude of symbolic characters: large typographies, the cypress tree, factory buildings, water reservoirs, cisterns, ramps, baroque gardens. His paintings are timeless and are somewhat close to surrealism. Sometimes they reflect an ironic approach to landscape, at the same time they tie in with the romantic tradition of the genre.
Important exhibitions
- 1993: University Museum for Fine Arts, Marburg
- 1994: Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main
- 1994: Galeria Trece, Ventalló, Catalonia
- 1994: Museum of Modern Art, Mittelhof
- 1999: Rare Art Properties, New York
- 1999: Galerie Pfund, Berlin
- 2001: Galerie Martin, Hong Kong
- 2001: Galerie Àmbit, Barcelona
- 2002: Galerie Ignacio de Lassaleta, Barcelona
- 2002: Gallery Spectrum, Saragossa
- 2003: Galerie Arcturus, Paris
- 2003: Nord LB Bank, Hamburg
- 2005: Maison Kregg, Brussels
- 2005: Il Polittico Gallery, Rome
- 2005: Sala Parés, Barcelona
- 2006: Galerie Hof & Huyser, Amsterdam
- 2006: Art International Art Fair, Zurich
- 2008: Museum of Llavaneres, Catalonia
- 2009: Galeria María José Castellví, Barcelona
- 2011: kd.Kunst, Wallhöfen near Bremen
Works in public and private collections
- La Caixa Collection, Barcelona
- Banco Santander Collection, Madrid
- Vila Casas Foundation, Barcelona
- Boudouin Collection, Brussels
- Collection of the Círculo Ecuestre, Barcelona
- Blachère Collection, Apt, South of France
- Collection of the City of Barcelona
- Coca Cola Foundation, Madrid
- Tanaka Foundation, Tokyo
- Collection NH, Madrid
- Ducasse Collection, Paris
- Donald Judd Collection, Marfa, USA
- David Hockney Private Collection, Los Angeles
- Telefónica Foundation, Madrid
- Private collection Carmen and Lluís Bassat, Barcelona
- Museum of Water, Barcelona
- Collection of the Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
- Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main
- Norman Foster Private Collection, London
- Eric Spiekerman Collection, Berlin
- Arisa Collection, Madrid
- Eneco Collection, Rotterdam
Projects / awards
- First prize for illustration for the book Maison Léopold, Versailles, France
- Illustrations of the book Tres Nadals and Tres Navidades by Quim Monzó , Quaderns Crema Verlag and Acantilado Verlag
- Illustration of the cover of Catalan Writing , Catalan Pen Club
- Illustrations of the book Ferran Adrià, El Bulli by Óscar Caballero, published by Agnès Vienot
- Collaboration with the designer David Carson (Quatrat 9, Espai Gràfic)
- Portfolio with prints for a project of the studio b-720 and David Chipperfield
- Drawings for the Ciutat Metropolitana project by Jean Nouvel
- Design of the pocket calendar of the library of Barcelona
- Sculpture project by the savings banks, Frankfurt
- Public sculpture, Igualada.
The following authors and artists have written about Ramon Enrich:
- David Hockney , Quim Monzó , Lluís Pasqual, Narcís Comadira, Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, Enric Miralles , Lluís Bassat, Daniel Giralt Miracle, Luis Eduardo Aute , Anton Maria Espadaler
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Enrich, Ramon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catalan painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Igualada |