Gonçal Sobrer (Barcelona, 1932) is an artist who is difficult to classify. His career has been replete with unexpected twists and risky actions, assuming the possibility of personal failure as a libertarian option that has enabled him to denounce the collective failure. Sobrer has worked on the margins, freed up by making no concessions to fashions or the logic of the market.
His artwork articulates the denunciation through many varied languages – painting, objects, installations, happenings and performances, as well as theatre, photography and cinema – with a critical perspective that is located and almost always rooted in his home neighbourhood, Poblenou. Sobrer...
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