VILADECANS, Joan Pere
 
Untitled (2020); fine screen print, from a limited edition run, signed and numbered by Viladecans, 45/50.
 
Description
 
Original screen print in multicolour. Fine condition and without colour loss. Decked edges. Bright and clean throughout. Framed and glazed; mounted over solid black.
Joan Pere Viladecans (b. 1948) is one of the most compelling figures to emerge from the great tradition of Catalan modernism — the lineage that gave the world Picasso, Miró, and Tàpies. Self-taught and fiercely original, his work shares with Miró a deeply poetic visual language of symbolic forms and dream-like imagery, where colour and composition transcend literal representation to speak directly to the imagination. Like Tàpies, he treats the picture plane as a site of memory and material meditation, incorporating organic elements - rust, wax, sea water, squid ink - into compositions of striking emotional depth.
Image, 34.4x24.6cm; external, 41.3x32.0cm.