Archives: Talents

As the granddaughter of a well-known artist in the Lower Rhine region, she was born with creativity and technical skill. As a child, she spent a lot of time with her grandparents. Weaving and painting with her grandfather Helmut, and cooking with her grandmother Anni, were the best pastimes in those days.
As she grew older, her interests shifted towards technology, and she chose to pursue technical training. For a long time, broken machines that emitted whistles and blinked were her passion, but over time her perspective changed, and she began developing creative projects. During a difficult time in her life, she discovered forging. Here, she could develop her full potential, both creative and technical.
Nicolas spends time in Formentera, where he met Sol Courreges, who invited him to participate in some of her projects, such as Stop Global Warming (2021) and STOP! The Last of Its Kind (2022), both of which were exhibited at the Centre Tur Gabrielet in Formentera.
The Elephant was created for this last exhibition.

Miquel Galceran (Terrassa, 1988) is a double bassist, composer, and educator. He uses music to evoke landscapes and transform them through improvisation. Quadern de viatge is his most personal project, also involving Dani Comas and Ramon Prats. He has worked with Benet Palet Trio, Moviment d’Insurrecció Sonora, Claes Magnet Trio, Quicu Samsó, Jordi Gardeñas, Josep Mª Merseguer, David Mengual, Iannis Obiols, Jonas Timm, and other renowned musicians.

He has participated in various jazz, pop, and experimental music festivals in Catalonia. His discography includes collaborations in works such as Tout ce qui reste (2019), Sad tunes (2018), Koselig (2018), Amb cara i ulls (2016), Incert (2014), among others. He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (2012) and earned a degree in Double Bass Jazz at the Liceu Conservatory (2019). He is currently a teacher of electric bass and double bass at the Musical Space of Terrassa and the Municipal School of Bellpuig.

He has lived and worked in Barcelona since 1990. Fernando Alday is a genius of collage, and the base of his creations are pages from old notebooks, old account books, or spines of books that he finds in antique shops.

His works, elegant and original, are filled with poetry.

Born in Castelló de la Plana in 1965, he has been based in Barcelona for 25 years.

Joan Peris is a visual artist who works and combines various disciplines: painting, digital art, and sculpture.

His work is inspired by the fusion of different elements and experimentation with various materials, resulting in a very material-based work full of contrasts.

During the 1980s and 1990s, he studied graphic design, photography, and ceramics. Afterward, he worked for eleven years as a ceramic designer. In the mid-1990s, he became interested in painting and opened his first studio in Barcelona. There, he began exhibiting in various galleries and international fairs.

In the early 2000s, he regained his interest in photography and began his digital work, based on the fusion of images that merge photography and painting.

Currently, he collaborates with various galleries that showcase his works primarily in Barcelona, Girona, Mallorca, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Sellarès began painting when he was in primary school. He studied music (solfeggio, piano, and guitar) and art at the School of Applied Arts in Terrassa, which was then part of La Llotja. He is a member of the Cultural Association Friends of the Arts and the Terrassa Chess Club.

He leaned more toward practice than studies, and instead of entering the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, after passing the entrance exams, he formed the experimental music group Belmondo and decided to travel to New York.

Throughout his career, he has encountered artists who have contributed to his development, both personally and artistically, such as Eloi Rocamora, Antoni Padrós, Richard Hamilton, Francesca Llopis, Nazario, Perico Pastor, Eugeni Bonet, Toni Riera, Carlos Pazos, among others.

He has exhibited at Sala Parés, the A Punt Gallery in Badalona, the H₂O Gallery, and the Chez Xefo Art Gallery, among others. He has also exhibited in museums such as the Joan Miró Foundation, the Museum of Badalona, and the Soler Palet Municipal Hall in Terrassa. Additionally, the Sabadell Bank Foundation has purchased several of his works.

Fran Lucas Simón studied Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and has been residing on the island of Formentera for over 13 years.

The visual language he has been developing is a union of different elements that play with each other within each piece.

He has evolved from a more painting-oriented approach to a rather particular way of constructing images.

His creative process starts with fieldwork, collecting elements through walks in open spaces, followed by workshop work where he uses various painting techniques, such as watercolor painting on paper, which is then cut and assembled with elements collected during fieldwork, found objects, repurposed materials, or natural elements that he dries and treats.

He seeks the poetry in found elements, with an interest in the textures of old woods, stained by use, and rusted metals on which he paints time. He proposes different visual and referential elements.