Benet SARSANEDAS (1942) .

Benet Sarsanedas

(Rupit, 1942)

Training

At the age of fifteen he begins his training in the University of Girona, with the first drawing classes and the first landscapes in oil.

In the decade of the sixties, mounted a study in the calle de la Palla in Barcelona and comes in contact with the environment in the artistic avant-garde of this city. Regularly goes to the Artistic Circle of Sant Lluc, where he perfected his technique of drawing, especially in the nude.

Starting in the 1970s, lived long periods in Paris. Often visit museums and galleries and he paints oil paintings and gouaches of the Seine, the Latin Quarter, Montparnasse, etc, Paris has always been a great source of inspiration to him; them frequent stay in this city allow you to stay in touch with your artistic and cultural world.

In the year 1978 follows a course of fresco painting at the International School of Mural Painting in Sant Cugat del Vallès. Their travel and stay in the Empordà, the region of Castile, the Magisterium, Asturias, Spain, and in England, Italy, Holland, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Russia, America, China, Thailand, Turkey i Morocco, will mark their later work.

In the decade of the eighties, he finally settled in Barcelona. Since then he has been exhibiting regularly in different art galleries of Catalonia, the cities of the Spanish State such as Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Gijón, and Europe, such as Venice or Aachen. Currently she divides her time between the studio of the Street d Amargós in the Gothic Quarter, and the landscapes of the Priory.

The art critic Rafael Manzano defined with the following words:

“We dare to say that it is a painter's difficult and, at the same time, candid and simple. Born in Rupit, beautiful body urban “Catalonia old”, understand the landscape in a different way than the traditional, so we qualified on a book our of “heterodox”.

It does not look at the nature “the beautiful thing”, their values on the surface, the epidermal layer that has spoiled so many vocations. Benet Sarsanedas, as in his day expressed Cezanne, he is concerned about “penetrating the unseen”, we delve into the landscape for you to discover your gestures are intimate and deep. Hence what we can fit inside of the expressionists, by what have his works of nature and of sense.

This accommodation of your palette to the feature sensed and secret things takes you to move to your fabrics topics on which floats an atmosphere intrahistórica; old cities, spaces dilated and austere, towers in which we perceive the flight of the storks. (...) In the scenarios of this painter never think of something placid and tranquil; those clouds presage a storm; those trees waiting for a wind gut-wrenching; in those fields, “it seems that things dream”, as he wrote Machado.

A canvas of Sarsanedas never leaves us indifferent; it is in them that “drama” without which, as pointed out by Picasso, the work of art vanishes. (1987)

In 1974 he exhibited for the first time in Barcelona, at the Sala Jaimes. Since then he has exhibited consistently both individually and in collective exhibitions in spain: Barcelona, Granollers, Palafrugell, Banyoles, Olot, Vic, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Mallorca, Alicante, Gijón, and also in european cities, in Norway, France, Italy and Germany.

Amongst his exhibitions stand out:

1987

Exhibition of drawings in the Room Clariana de Vic.

Individual exhibitions of oil paintings in the Sala Rebull, Reus;

Galeria Van Dyck, Gijon; Sala El Carme, Vic;

Gallery Kreisler, Barcelona, Palafrugell Art, Palafrugell.

1988

Individual exhibition of paintings in the Gallery Ansorena, Madrid; Sala Rusiñol, Sant Cugat del Vallès; Grup d'art Diagonal, in Barcelona.

Exhibition of watercolors in the Room with The Cava, of Vilanova i la Geltrú.

Collective exhibition "Landscapes of Catalonia, the Expressions" in the sala Caja Madrid, in Aranjuez.

1989

Individual exhibition of paintings in the Sala de Arte Van Dyck de Gijón.

Collective exhibition at the Art Gallery of Aribau Barcelona..

1990

Individual exhibition of paintings in the Gallery Clariana de Vic.

1991

Solo exhibition of oil paintings in the Sala Rusiñol, in Sant Cugat del Vallés.

1992

Individual exhibitions of oil paintings in the Room Lamvart , in Barcelona; Galeria Van Dyck, Gijon and at Gallery Parc in Andorra.

Collective exhibition "Europ'Art, Salon International des Galeries d'art Actuel", in Geneva; "The Painter and his work" in the Sala Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona;

"Collective exhibition of Paintings", in the Room Lamvart, in Barcelona.

1993

Individual exhibition of paintings in the International Painting Fund of Barcelona.

Collective exhibition "Masters of Catalan", in the Room Roglan, in Barcelona.

1994

Individual exhibition of paintings in the Gallery Atelier of Barcelona.

Group exhibition “XX Salon de mai” in the room Anquin's of Reus.

1995

Individual exhibitions of oil paintings in the sala Rusiñol, in Sant Cugat del Vallès; galeria Van Dyck, Gijon; room Pedreguet Art, in Amer.

Collective exhibition in the room of The Quatre 4, in Granollers.

Collective exhibition "Spring Salon", in the room Grup d'art Diagonal, in Barcelona.

1996

Solo exhibition of oil paintings in the Sala Rusiñol, in Sant Cugat del Vallès.

1997

Solo exhibition of oil paintings in the Sala Güell, in Barcelona, Sala Rebull, Reus, gallery Intel.lecte de Sabadell.

Exhibition of drawings in the room Pedreguet Art of Amer.

Collective exhibition in the sala Güell of Barcelona.

1998

Individual exhibition of paintings in the gallery Intel·lecte de Sabadell, Gallery Ricard of Terrassa and in the International Painting Fund of Barcelona.

1999

Biennale Internazionale dell'arte Contemporanea, Florence.

Collective exhibition “Small Format” in the room The Quatre 4 of Granollers.

Individual exhibition of paintings in the room Beumers of Aquisgran.

2000

Individual exhibitions of oil paintings in the Sala Rusiñol from Sant Cugat del Vallès, and in the gallery Intel·lecte de Sabadell.

Solo exhibition of drawings in the room Quatre 4 of Granollers.

2001

Individual exhibition of paintings in the Gallery Adriana de Barcelona.

Collective exhibition in the room of The Quatre 4 of Granollers and in the living room Beumers of Aachen.

2002

Individual exhibition of paintings in the gallery Intel·lecte de Sabadell.

Collective exhibition in the Sala d'art Buigas de Cerdanyola and in the room The Quatre 4 of Granollers.

2003

Solo exhibition of paintings, watercolours and drawings in the Castle of Cornellà de Llobregat.

Solo exhibition of oil paintings in the sala Giacomo Gallery in Barcelona.

Collective exhibition in the Sala d'art Buigas in Cerdanyola, in the room of The Quatre 4 of Granollers and in the living room Beumers, of Aquisgran.

Collective exhibition of drawings in the room Roglan, Barcelona.

2004

Individual exhibition of paintings in the room Quatre 4 of Granollers.

Individual exhibition of paintings in the gallery Intel·lecte de Sabadell.

Collective exhibition in the Sala d'art Buigas of Cerdanyola.

2005

Solo exhibition of oil paintings in the Sala Rusiñol from Sant Cugat del Vallès.

Collective exhibition in the Sala d'art Buigas in Cerdanyola.

2006

Individual exhibition of paintings in the gallery Intel·lecte de Sabadell.

Collective exhibition in the Sala d'art Buigas of Cerdanyola.

2007

Individual exhibition of paintings in the room Quatre 4 of Granollers.