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| Perejaume | |
|---|---|
| Name | Perejaume |
| Birth date | 1957 |
| Birth place | Ripoll, Catalonia |
| Nationality | Spanish (Catalan) |
| Fields | Painting, Installation, Writing |
| Training | Facultat de Belles Arts de Barcelona |
Perejaume is a Catalan painter, writer, and conceptual artist known for interventions in landscape, language, and cultural memory. He combines visual art, essayistic prose, and site-specific projects to interrogate traditions such as Catalan painting, rural practices, and Mediterranean literature. His practice engages with institutions, archives, and natural environments across Spain, France, and Italy.
Born in Ripoll, Catalonia, he grew up amid the cultural contexts of the Pyrenees, the artistic legacies of artists like Antoni Tàpies, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and regional traditions from Barcelona and Girona. He studied at the Facultat de Belles Arts de Barcelona and encountered movements including Informalism, Surrealism, Dada, Arte Povera, and the legacies of Noucentisme and Modernisme. His formative influences also include writers and thinkers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Miquel Martí i Pol, Pere Quart, Joan Brossa, and Giorgio Agamben. Early mentors and peers connected him to galleries and cultural initiatives in Barcelona, Madrid, and Toulouse.
His career encompasses painting, installations, public interventions, and essays situated within institutions like the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, and international venues such as the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Kunsthalle Bern, Fondazione Prada, and the Venice Biennale. He has collaborated with curators associated with Documenta, Arco Madrid, Manifesta, and independent spaces like La Capella and Hangar. His professional network includes exchanges with artists and critics linked to Céline Cunen, Rita McBride, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Carlos Soler, and institutions such as the Instituto Cervantes and Institut Ramon Llull.
Major themes in his work include reinterpretations of landscape painting traditions exemplified by references to Joaquim Mir, Isidre Nonell, Santiago Rusiñol, and techniques recalling Impressionism and Expressionism. He frequently explores the intersection of language and image with citations to texts by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Octavio Paz, Italo Calvino, and Walter Benjamin. Recurring motifs invoke the Mediterranean coastline, Pyrenean topography, agricultural practices linked to Terra Alta and Empordà, and folkloric gestures from festivals such as La Mercè and Sant Jordi. Projects often reference archival materials from institutions like the Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya, historical figures including Francesc Macià and Lluís Companys, and literary canons involving Miguel de Cervantes and Federico García Lorca.
He has mounted solo and group exhibitions in venues including Galeria Senda, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Galería Elvira González, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Palau Robert, and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies. Major projects include site-specific interventions in natural settings near Montserrat, coastal works around Costa Brava, and collaborations with cultural festivals in Perpignan and Lleida. International presentations have occurred at institutions like the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and academic symposia at Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de València, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
He has received distinctions and prizes from Catalan and Spanish cultural bodies including honors from the Generalitat de Catalunya, awards linked to the Premis Ciutat de Barcelona, and recognitions associated with the Premi Nacional d'Arts Visuals. His work has been supported by grants from institutions such as the Ministerio de Cultura and European programs connected to the European Cultural Foundation and Creative Europe. Collections holding his work include the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, MACBA Collection, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museo Reina Sofía Collection, and municipal collections in Barcelona and Girona.
Critics and scholars have situated him within debates alongside figures such as Enric Miralles, RCR Arquitectes, Antoni Gaudí, Perejaume (do not link), and writers like Jordi Savall—with commentary in journals connected to Artforum, Flash Art, El País, La Vanguardia, and Ara. His work has prompted theoretical readings engaging with Phenomenology through references to Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ecological discourse tied to Bruno Latour, and discussions in relation to Cultural Memory Studies citing Jan Assmann and Aleida Assmann. International curators have debated his role in redefining Mediterranean contemporary art alongside practitioners from Portugal, Italy, France, and Greece.
He is author of numerous essayistic books and catalogues published by presses and institutions such as Editorial Anagrama, Galaxia Gutenberg, Fundació Joan Miró, MACBA Publications, Blau Editions, and Actar. His writings enter dialogues with texts by J. L. Borges, Walter Benjamin, Italo Calvino, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Gaston Bachelard, and Gilles Deleuze. Exhibition catalogues and monographs have been produced in collaboration with curators and editors from Museu Picasso, Fundació Josep Irla, Centre d'Art Contemporani de Girona, and academic presses at Universitat de València and Universitat de Lleida. Major bilingual and multilingual publications appear in Catalan, Spanish, French, and English, circulated through cultural networks involving the Institut Ramon Llull and British Council.
Category:Catalan artists Category:Spanish painters Category:Contemporary artists