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EDITIONS

 

Rafa Forteza. Rafa Forteza. Palma de Mallorca, 1955. Palma de Mallorca, 1955. Painter, sculptor, grabador. He begins with the engraving Three totems, 1986, integrating fully in this means that will accompany him and combine in his career. He showed from this first engraving his capacity of reinventing his personal language and discover means to show us it and surprise us. Frequent visitor to the workshop ever since, manufactures a collection of engravings like Wall, 1989, of 1 x 2 metres; Series Maclas, 1992; Series Ancestors; Series Reunion. Important are his books of bibliophile, where the artist joins poets and men of letters, with whom he achieves to make himself understood and create: José Carlos Llop, Joan Brossa, José Ángel Valente, Friedhem Mennekes, Jochen Winter. Awarded at international level as engraver.

 
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Jose Pedro Croft. Oporto, 1957. Sculptor, engraver, sketcher. He engraves his first editions in 1990 and since then and regularly he makes at his workshop some series of engravings in which he influences and lets get influenced with his sculptures and drawings. Although his beginnings were marked by a conceptual language, he keeps own discovering his own methods, between sculpting and engraving techniques on metal, recovering the gestures from his first works and opening to colours. He's got bibliophile editions with texts from people near his life and work.

 
Untitled 2010
 

Joan Barbarà. Barcelona, 1927. Barcelona, 1927. Master and engraving artist, apart from painter and draftsman, he creates his first atelier at 23. When he turns 30, in Paris, he creates with Lluís Bracons L’Átelier de Recherches  Plàstiques et Téchniques Calcographiques , where he begins a great friendship and cooperation with Dalí and Miró, working in the calcographic ateliers in this city. IN 1966, in Barcelona, he directs the ateliers in Ediciones La Cometa, where artists like Picasso, Hartung, Fontana, Tàpies and Chillida engrave. Together with this task of cooperation with other artists´editions, he shows his work in galleries and museums. He exhibits  Suite Bodegones in the Maeght gallery, with catalogue and schedule across Europe.  Serie Negre sobre Negre, catalogue Fundación Miró and schedule. Bibliophile and suite of engravings and drawings of big dimensions; Empúries, inici d’un retorn, scheduled across the Mediterranean, with catalogue and facsimile of the book. Méditérrani, obra gràfica. Museu de les Drassanes. Bibliophile book de Paris-Olot; Premio Fundación Olot.  Member of the Reial Academia de Sant Jordi, he receives awards and homages in several countries.

 
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Arquitecture Series 
 
 

Francesc Abad, Terrassa, Barcelona, 1944. Conceptual artist who recovers part of the history of thoughts lost in the dictatorships and that is conveyed through sculpting, setting up, photography and writing.

 
 
 

Alaleh Alamir, Tehran, 1959. Plastic artist who communicates through painting, drawing, photography and video. She gathers the universal knowledges with his personal experience, giving his work a personal depth.

 
  Les fleurs qui me font du bien  
 
     

Joaquim Chancho, Doctor in Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona and Professor of Painting. Edition of Book A for the Escola d'Enginyers Industrials de Barcelona. He's got pieces in MACBA, Museu de Montserrat, Collection Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Tarragona, MOMA in New York, and private and public collections. He makes Série TB-2006, with 29 editions in engraving. In 2008, the bibliophile book Teoría de las señales, and in 2009, he makes 8 large printing engravings, 109 x 208 cm

 
Series TB 2006
Large Printing Series 2009
     
Joseph Beuys                                                  
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Miquel Barceló                                            
 
   
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Michael Byron                                                   
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José Luis Cuevas    
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Eduardo Chillida    
     
Salvador Dalí    
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Dai Bih In

   
     

Manel Esclusa

   
     
Francesc Estivill    
Hic et nunc    
Madeleine Dietz    
Eternidad dulce niña    
Kcho    
La jungla    

Georg Massanés

   

Suite Flors

Suite Double Infini

   
Victor Mira. Zaragoza 1949-2000. Records in our workshop on a series of collages and woodcuts auguafuertes to display in his first exhibitions of graphic art in Munich and Barcelona FredJahn, Gal.Eude and 1983. We are artists' books The murdererentered the city, published in 1986. And Stylites, the silence of the lip, in 1988. In 1990 he published a collection of woodcutsBaselitzbeuys Series, Series Stylites, Montjuic Series, Seriesand Series Spinning Paral.lel Muses and displayed in our gallerystarting an editing Continue traveling with the artist's book Bachkantaten, 1992 and will Trepitjan flors, 1994.

Tristan takes his work Barbarà editions graphics to ARCO, Frankfurt and Bassel since 1980 and conducts road shows in Europe, Museum Collioure, France. Kirchen Jesuits, Stadt Aalst.Bachwoche, Ansbach. Regensburg, Milan, Rome, Vienna, Madrid, Zaragoza, among others. Middle East, Damascus, Beirut, Amman and North America, Mexico City, Monterrey, New York.
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Joan Miró    
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José Ney Milá    
     
Jorge Oteiza    
Ley de los cambios    
Jaume Plensa, Barcelona, 1955    
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Albert Ràfols-Casamada    
Casamada    
Riera i Aragó    
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Emil Schumacher    
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Antoni Tàpies. Barcelona, 1923.

   
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Francesc Torres    
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Francisco Tropa    
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Moisés Villèlia    
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Rafa Forteza a The State Russian Museum-Ludwig Museum de San Petersburg Francisco Tropa in the Biennial show of Venice and in the Biennial show of Istanbul 2011 Impar Bibliophile's book including Antonio Gamoneda's poems and Rafa Forteza's engravings
       
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