The boy who looked and looks at the Mediterranean Exhibition

November 23rd
Reial Cercle Artístic

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“The singer-songwriter Aute has a song in which I feel very identified: “El niño que miraba al mar” (The boy who looked at the sea). I would say the boy who looked and looks at the sea… When I was a child, I spent a lot of time not only looking at the sea but living in the sea. I fished, sailed, and swam in the Mediterranean. It was a close and warm place where dolphins jumped next to us while we swam, and offshore, we saw giant turtles. It was a Mediterranean with life, close, warm, deep and intimate, and that is how I have painted it, as a paradise of my memories.
Now, I have seen ANOTHER MEDITERRANEAN. No more dolphins or turtles are jumping. We have killed it. Not only that, we have turned it into a barrier where many illusions and hopes are drowned, a barrier that separates the rich and the poor, a barrier where life is drowned.
To all this, I dedicate my new work, and I only ask you to reflect with me on this beloved sea, the Mediterranean.”

Exhibition Works:

Tears Fall On The Earth
Hope
A Cry To The World
We Just Wanted To Live

Speakers

Lluís Ribas Castellsagué

Catalan hyperrealist painter. At 9, he discovered painting with the artist José María Martínez. Director of photonovels and technical director of the magazine Còmics (1969-1974). From 1975 onwards, he devoted himself exclusively to painting, gaining great recognition both nationally and internationally. His works are in important private collections in Europe, the United States, Japan and Canada. Fourteen books have been published on his work, the latest being “Icons of the 20th Century”. His large-format works stand out, reflecting the beauty of women framed in nature, preferably in the sea. He has been awarded the Sant Cugat 2017 prize for the celebration of the 40th anniversary of his first solo exhibition, as well as the Paul Harris Fellow award by the Rotary Club Sant Cugat.