Miquel Barcelo is a man planted between land and sea. A solar artist who is completely inhabited by his art, as play possesses a child, as love enlightens a happy man.
This is evidenced by his Parisian workshop, which developed organically under the high ceilings of an old hotel in the Marais, a series of cells composed like works where his painting, his sculpture, his collections intermingle, as in the House Museum Salvador Dali, in Portlligat, near Cadaqués, where art serves as a breadcrumb trail.
The spaces follow one another, dedicated to engraving, drawing, archives, and each is a form of self-portrait.
Deep in this labyrinth, the painter, wearing a blue work coat smeared with paint and hair standing up like a bewildered comic book character, is working on his latest series.
White and black paintings which directly evoke cave art on their canvases bumpy like the wall of a cave.
Miquel Barcelo was born on January 8, 1957 in Felanitx, in the southeast of the island of Mallorca…
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