This anthological exhibition of the work by Luis Claramunt (Barcelona, 1951–Zarautz, 2000) aims to trace his brilliant thirty-year career and also recognize him as one of the most personal, intense and dramatic Catalan artists of the second half of the twentieth century.
The son of a wealthy family from Barcelona’s Eixample district, he left his family home when he was eighteen years old in and threw himself into the city’s wild social life, known as Barcelona canalla, and embraced gipsy culture.
In his early years, his pictorial work was clearly influenced by a range of artists – from Picasso to Munch, to Goya, Van Gogh, Gutiérrez Solana and Nonell – but he...
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