Benet Rossell Donation: Writings and Journeys

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The work of Benet Rossell (Àger,1937 - Barcelona, 2016) is essential to understand the evolution of Catalan art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Poet, filmmaker and visual artist, Rossell was one of the protagonists of the emergence of conceptual practices and performance. In parallel with his experimental cinematographic work, the artist showed a particular interest in drawing, and later taking up the trade of doll maker with the same avant-garde spirit of Paul Klee or Saul Steinberg. He merged drawing with calligraphy, sometimes miniaturized — creating micrographs that have to be viewed through a magnifying glass — and finally took this approach to the realms of painting. With his radicalism combined with sensitivity, Benet Rossell establishes points of confluence between conceptual art and the most lyrical plastic art.

The donation of an important set of his work to the Museu Nacional by the artist’s widow, Cristina Giorgi, allows us to appreciate the diversity of pieces and Rossell’s great inventiveness. This is a key contribution to the museum's post-war and second avant-garde art collection.

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