Isidre Mateo Padilla

Isidre Mateu is a versatile artist who works in painting, collage, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and jewelry.

He lives in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, where he actively participated in the advocacy of the El Borsí Platform for the neighborhood, which succeeded in recovering this building as a cultural infrastructure for the local community.

He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts Sant Jordi, specializing in painting and printmaking, and obtained his degree equivalence in 2010.

He has worked as a professor of Graphic Arts, participated in numerous group exhibitions, held several solo exhibitions, and contributed to the organization of international shows, such as the exchange between Catalan and Japanese artists and the Marrakesh Art Show, organized by the Spanish Cultural Institute.

“Materializing the idea with a minimal number of formal elements and sometimes with the participation of found pieces and fragments has been an interesting exercise, always avoiding, when possible, the simple and easy solution.”