GERARD ROSÉS

Gerard Rosés was born in Barcelona, that very year Edward Munch, Vasily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian died. It was 1944 and the Gallery Lefevre was presenting the first individual exhibition of Lucian Freud, which included The Painter Room.

The Catalan artist, who has earned himself an international brilliant reputation over the last 20 years, uses cardboard and oil paint for his small and also monumental pieces of art –its roughness and waves transmit joie de vivre.

Rosés is a complete artist who goes through painting and sculpting but embraces the audiovisual possibilities to reproduce all of the details of urban realities. In fact, he is one of the city type and intends to present its beauty along with the natural essence.

His pieces’ colors are warm and full of harmony, just like Expressionism ones –a big influence for him- and Fauve used to evoke. They are an invitation to contemplate and reflect over everyday changes. In Rosés’ mind, modernity is freshness.

...his work is prominent in a real literal sense: his material is all about relieves     -countryside scenes, bathers, windows open to the sea or sunny long streets are composed by glueing a series of cardboard layers and painting on them. Rosés invites his spectator to become an actor. Rosés reproduces, with the desire of somebody who loves simplicity, the images which flow from the fountain. And certainly, that water is the topic he develops with a resonance to the old oil paintings from Renoir, Cézanne or Picasso's Blue period. His paintings mean happiness.

Francesc Miralles, GERARD ROSÉS, CONTEMPORANEÏTAT AMB TRADICIÓ. ED. MEDITERRÀNIA, 2001