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Miquel Barcelo: “I paint my paintings in Catalan!”

2024-01-21T15:57:41.227Z

Highlights: Miquel Barcelo became a star of the international scene in the 1980s. After years of escaping to Dogon country, to Mali, he sailed between Paris and his Balearic island, fleeing the pitfalls of success. His Parisian workshop developed organically under the high ceilings of an old hotel in the Marais. The spaces follow one another, dedicated to engraving, drawing, archives, and each is a form of self-portrait. White and black paintings which directly evoke cave art on their canvases bumpy like the wall of a cave.


INTERVIEW - The artist from Majorca became a star of the international scene in the 1980s. After years of escaping to Dogon country, to Mali, he sailed between Paris and his Balearic island, fleeing the pitfalls of success .


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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