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Joan Hernandez Pijuan
About the artist...
Hernández Pijuan, who was born in Barcelona in 1931 and
who now lives part time in the Spanish countryside, began to paint
at an early age. Hernández Pijuan's goals have never been
descriptive or narrative. Instead, via the monochrome surface he
emphasises the handcraft behind the painted picture. With this approach
he also separates painting as a medium from other "languages"
of modern art. He dislikes the label of "artist" - he
is a "painter" - as it says on his ID card. The great
independence he displays as a painter, in always working alone without
direct links to various movements or trends, reveals a particular
relationship to being an artist. In all probability we can say that
the very best art emerges from this very type of obsession. Hernández
Pijuan's art is indeed based on passion.
Biography
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2003 |
Malmo Kunsthall, Malmo, Sweden |
| 2002 |
Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Soeul, Korea |
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Baukunst-Galerie, Koln |
| 2001 |
Galeria Juan Prats, Barcelona |
| 2000 |
Galerie Academia, Salzburg, Austria |
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Galerie Xippas, Paris |
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Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid |
| 1999 |
Galerie Renate Bender, Munich |
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Retrospective: Traveling to: Galleria Credito Valtellinese,
Refettorio delle Stellini, Milan; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt;
Galerie Lutz & Thalmann, Zürich |
| 1997 |
Galerie Academia, Salzburg, Austria |
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Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona |
| 1996 |
Galeria Charpa, Valencia, Spain |
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Art Gallery Tapies, Kobe, Japan |
| 1995 |
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid |
| 1993 |
Joan Prats Gallery, New York |
| 1990 |
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA |
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Artgrafic, Barcelona, Spain |
| 1987 |
Michel Duney Fine Arts, San Fransisco, USA |
| 1986 |
Galerie River, West Port, Conn, USA |
| 1982 |
Yamaguchi Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
| 1981 |
Galerie Kornfeld, Zurich |
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Guild Gallery, New York |
| 1979 |
Galeria Juan Prats, Barcelona |
| 1976 |
Galeria Ciento, Barcelona |
| 1963 |
Galerie Rene Metras, Barcelona |
| 1956 |
Club de 4 Vents, Paris |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2003 |
How Heavy is Black?, Broadbent, London |
| 2001 |
Print Making by spanixh Artists, Tehran Museum of
Contmporary Arts, Iran |
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Er Rashid galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| 2000 |
Maisons, Portraits Singuliers; La galerie du Petit
Château, Sceaux, France |
| 1999 |
Before Miró, after Dalí. Catalan Masters
of the XX Century, traveling exhibition : Musée
National d’Art de Roumanie ; Gallery Zacheta, Museum Narodowe
W Crakowie, Poland |
| 1997 |
Form und Funktion der Zeichnung heute, Art Frankfurt,
Germany. |
| 1996 |
Des Formes de la Nature, Cultural Centre, Namur,
Belgium |
| 1995 |
Malpais, traveling to Galeries Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
; Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain |
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| AWARDS |
| 1981 |
The National Prize for Plastic Art - awarded by the Spanish
Ministry of Education |
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| SELECTED COLLECTIONS |
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The Spanish Art Collection, "El Aire", Madrid, Spain |
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Brooklyn Museum, USA |
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The Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA |
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
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The Museum of Art and History, Geneva, Switzerland |
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland |
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National cultural collection of Luxemburg |
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Morgan's Paint Foundation, Bologna, Italy |
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The Fine Art Museum Bilbao, Spain |
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The National Museum, The Art Centre Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. |
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The Leverkusen Museum , Germany |
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