Rosa Serra i Puigvert

Rosa Serra: Couple (Olot)

Rosa Serra: La Dona (Palma de Mallorca, 1992)

Rosa Serra i Puigvert (often simply Rosa Serra , * 1944 in Vic ( Osona )) is a Catalan sculptor and painter. Rosa Serra was married to the Catalan painter Xavier Carbonell . She has lived and worked in the artist town of Olot since 1950 .

Rosa Serra: The Olympic Archer (Barcelona Olympic Museum, 2012)

Artistic career

In 1970 Rosa Serra entered the private art academy of Lluís Carbonell i Colom , the father of her future husband Xavier Carbonell, in Olot, where she studied drawing and painting. Two years later she enrolled at the Escola de Belles Arts i Oficis ("Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts") in Olot, where she took courses in drawing, ceramics and engraving for over three years. In 1972 she had her first individual painting exhibition in Barcelona. From 1973 Rosa Serra worked in the studio of Lluís Curós in the field of sculpture and since then has only worked artistically in the field of sculpture. The first works in clay artistically show an intimate, human-substantial character. In her artistic work, she increasingly tended to simplify forms. Her central theme is the human body. Rosa Serra then received various prizes and individual designs. In 1976 she received the III. Biennale in Bilbao for the first time an award outside of Catalonia. Exhibitions all over Spain followed. The international breakthrough came in 1985. The Olympic Committee ordered 22 sculptures for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , depicting various Olympic disciplines. These figures stand today at the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne. This commission has led Rosa Serra to specialize in thematic subjects in sports. She then also created a series of figures for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Rosa Serra is the author of numerous sculptures in the public sector, such as the sculpture for the International Year of the Child on the southern bypass of Olot (1981), the sculpture of the athletes in the center for high-performance sports in Sant Cugat del Vallès (1992) and the sculpture "La Dona" at the "Plaça Sant Miquel" in Palma de Mallorca (1992). In the early years of the 21st century she designed several works for sports companies such as the life-size bronze sculpture of the golfer Tiger Woods for Nike in Beaverton, Oregon .

In her late work, Rosa Serra achieved the highest, artistic-aesthetic and symbolically effective reduction of the human body and the human being. An example of this is “The Olympic Archer” (2012) in front of the Olympic Museum in Barcelona. The sculpture commemorates the 20th anniversary of the lighting of the Olympic flame for the Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games in Barcelona in 1992 : The Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo had a spectacular conclusion of the Olympic torch relay with arrows and arrows across the entire stadium on July 25, 1992 lit the Olympic flame in Barcelona. A disabled athlete thus integrated the Paralympic and Olympic communities and thus all of humanity. Rosa Serra gave this comprehensive integration effort, which at the same time always remains an integration task, an artistic stature.

Honors

In 2008 Rosa Serra was honored with the Creu de Sant Jordi , the Catalan government's highest award for cultural achievement.

literature

• Ramon Balius i July: Rosa Serra . Ed .: Galeria d'Art Arcadi Calzada. 1st edition. 2007 (Catalan). with translations of the texts into English, French and Spanish.
• Vicenç Coromina i Bartrina (Ed.): 80 Artistes Olotins del anys 80 . Olot 1982, OCLC 434435958 , pp. 172 (Catalan).
• Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana, Volume 21, 2nd edition, Barcelona 1989, 3rd reprint November 1992 (Enciclopèdia Catalana SA), ISBN 84-7739-063-0 , page 99, article “Serra i Puigvert, Rosa”

Web links

Commons : Rosa Serra  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rosa Serra on enciclopedia.cat (Catalan)
• Rosa Serra in art a l'espai públic del prat (Catalan)
• The artist couple Rosa Serra and Xavier Carbonell in a joint exhibition on June 14, 2011, presented on the basis of works by both artists in Catalan (Youtube)