Josep Cisquella the painter exhibits his work and presents his book at Sala Vinçon

Paintings exhibition: 18 January - 17 February 2007
On 18 January 2007, Sala Vinçon holds an exhibition presented by Josep Cisquella, painter (Barcelona)
A selection of 12 large format paintings covers varying periods of the painters pictorial universe. Exhibition held until 17 February.

Presentation of Josep Cisquella's book: Touching Reality, 18 January
In 2006, art galleries such as Caldwell Snyder (San Francisco), Campton Gallery (New York), Trajan Gallery (Carmel) in the United States have all edited the book called Touching Reality which compiles over 150 paintings from all his pictorial series in more than 200 pages. The book was presented in San Francisco in the fall of 2006 and will now be presented at Sala Vinçon, Barcelona, on 18 January 2007. The book includes texts from Andrés Trapiello and Jordi Garcia.

The artist develops his series in his own words
Josep Cisquella was born in Barcelona and works in a synthesis style, a kind of hyperrealistic materialsm where with synthetic materials full scale day to day elements are recreated. Cisquella graduated as an Industrial Engineer and has undergone drawing and painting courses. In the execution of his pieces of work, the artist reveals himself as a leading man of the subject matter with work that reflects a powerful statement by Tàpies and the informalist movement as well as clear influences by American photorealism and Pop Art. We're facing a a robust painting, with expressive texture, created with his own words in a celebration of provoking sensations.

The shadows are converted into a conductive path
His series' are obsessively centred around the following themes: City asphalt, the big rusted tankers, the abstraction of mathematical signs, ladders, interiors, adverts, shadows. "I try to make the invisible visible and discover the poetic background which apparently has more humble and anodyne things", says Cisquella.

The paintings by the artist have a conductive path which almost cover all of his collections and that link is the shadow that is projected over the
asphalt, walls, windows. Shadows of vegetation, streetlamps, chairs, ladders, bicycles, all make up a suggestive lyric poetry which counteracts against the hardness of the urban floor, the cracked walls, the discoloration of doors and windows by the wind and rain. The shadows irradiate an enigma upon the present and the absent and invites the spectator to take part in imagining the position of the object, size and real shape, etc. "In reality by painting shadows I'm actually painting it's reverse, the light, especially the intese light of the Mediterranean", explains Josep Cisquella.

The painter has exhibited his work in the United States for 8 years
He began to exhibit his work in galleries situated in his native city, Barcelona. Later exhibiting in USA, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, etc. He has participated in most European and American Art fairs (Art Cologne, Art Frankfurt, Art Chicago, Art Miami, San Francisco Art Expo, etc). Since the fall of the 90s he works almost exclusively for art galleries in the United States (New York, San Francisco, Carmel, Chicago) where he has received good press from critics. He's covered front page and several inside pages in the "Gallery Guide" magazine, New york.