Luis Claremont: Shipwrecks and Storms

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Image courtesy of Fundacio Vila Casas

This anthological exhibition of the work by Luis Claramunt (Barcelona, ​​1951 –Zarautz, 2000) aims to trace his brilliant thirty-year career and also recognize him as one of the most original Catalan visual artists of the 20th century.

The son of a wealthy family from Barcelona’s Eixample district, Claramunt left his family home when he was eighteen years old and threw himself into the city’s wild social life, known as Barcelona canalla, and embraced the local gypsy culture.

In his early years, his pictorial work was clearly influenced by a range of artists – from Picasso, Munch, Goya, Van Gogh, Gutiérrez Solana and Nonell – but he gradually created his own expressionist imaginary based on an increasingly gestural or calligraphic language. He was a tireless flâneur and also drew inspiration from street life and his favourite artists, such as Stevenson, Conrad and Monfreid, each of them narrators of dramatic adventures they had experienced at sea and which the artist recreated in his own personal style.

This exhibition is curated by Sílvia Martínez Palou and Àlex Susanna, and it travels through the various cities that marked the artist's career: Barcelona (1970–1985), Seville (1985–1990), with visits to Marrakech and Madrid (1990–2000). 

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