Jose Bonell

Barcelona, 1989

JOSE
BONELL
   
   
Residency period at Piramidón:  
from March 2021 to January 2024  
   
Work:  

José Bonell’s work invents narratives based on a collective imaginary, full of historical and literary references, with the intention of creating new images that examine our relationship with the contemporary world. Dreamlike, sarcastic, and often humorous, the scenes are populated by animal characters and objects that, as in a probable magical world (Alice, Disney, or Greek mythology), appear in sometimes incongruous or unexpected scenes, or caught in the middle of moments of dialogue or action. The fluid brushstroke, the gesture, and the reduced — yet selective — color palettes — close to traditional Eastern painting — give his paintings immediacy and freshness that aid in reading the scenes.

It is a fantastic world — a grand theater — full of princesses, animals escaped from mythology or La Fontaine’s fables, magic tricks, and anthropomorphic objects where Bonell attempts to build a new “friendly” mythology to understand our wild environment, with the innocence of a child’s world.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
   
Últimas exposiciones:  
  • When time was a party, Palmer, (Galeria Haus 3.0), Struttgart, 2022
  • El gran banquet, Espai Guinovart, Agramunt, 2022. 
  • Through the Mirror, Rossi Contemporary, Bruxelles, 2022
  • Une Saison en Ardèche, "La Centrale" Artist-Run-Space, Ardèche, France, 2021.
  • Disección, AQD Projects, Barcelona, 2021
 
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