Miquel Barcel贸
Acquavella Galleries is pleased to present Miquel Barcel贸, the renowned Spanish artist鈥檚 fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition presents over two dozen new paintings and a selection of recent ceramic works, featuring the artist鈥檚 signature use of layered materiality, vivid color, and richly textured surfaces. The exhibition is on view April 24 to May 30, 2025 at Acquavella鈥檚 New York location.
Over the past four and a half decades, the Spanish artist Miquel Barcel贸 (b. 1957) has explored a diverse range of media, including painting, works on paper, ceramic, bronze sculpture, large-scale installation, and performance. In addition to his deep-rooted connection to Spain and his native Mallorca, Barcel贸 draws inspiration from his global travels, continuously experimenting with new materials and techniques influenced by ancient and contemporary cultural traditions. Throughout his practice, the artist鈥檚 fascination with the natural world has been central, resulting in textured canvases filled with earthly materiality, tactile surfaces, and compositions inspired by the effects of light and ever-changing colors of the sea.
In his latest series of paintings, Barcel贸 deepens his engagement with organic subject matter, drawing inspiration from the sea surrounding Mallorca, where he lives and works in addition to Paris. In densely layered surfaces, Barcel贸鈥檚 new 鈥渟till life鈥� paintings feature scenes filled with tropical fish, crabs, shells, crustaceans, and marine vegetation that emerge from layers of muted chromatic grays in brilliant hues of red and blue. Traces of human presence also appear within these aquatic compositions as Barcel贸 often incorporates found materials including matchbooks and postage stamps amid hundreds of layers of paint. In Par terre avec as de coeur (2024), for instance, a playing card appears alongside crabs and shells, seamlessly blending into the composition. As Barcel贸 explains, the process is almost geological, 鈥渓ike waves washing over a beach.鈥�
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Acquavella Galleries is pleased to present Miquel Barcel贸, the renowned Spanish artist鈥檚 fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition presents over two dozen new paintings and a selection of recent ceramic works, featuring the artist鈥檚 signature use of layered materiality, vivid color, and richly textured surfaces. The exhibition is on view April 24 to May 30, 2025 at Acquavella鈥檚 New York location.
Over the past four and a half decades, the Spanish artist Miquel Barcel贸 (b. 1957) has explored a diverse range of media, including painting, works on paper, ceramic, bronze sculpture, large-scale installation, and performance. In addition to his deep-rooted connection to Spain and his native Mallorca, Barcel贸 draws inspiration from his global travels, continuously experimenting with new materials and techniques influenced by ancient and contemporary cultural traditions. Throughout his practice, the artist鈥檚 fascination with the natural world has been central, resulting in textured canvases filled with earthly materiality, tactile surfaces, and compositions inspired by the effects of light and ever-changing colors of the sea.
In his latest series of paintings, Barcel贸 deepens his engagement with organic subject matter, drawing inspiration from the sea surrounding Mallorca, where he lives and works in addition to Paris. In densely layered surfaces, Barcel贸鈥檚 new 鈥渟till life鈥� paintings feature scenes filled with tropical fish, crabs, shells, crustaceans, and marine vegetation that emerge from layers of muted chromatic grays in brilliant hues of red and blue. Traces of human presence also appear within these aquatic compositions as Barcel贸 often incorporates found materials including matchbooks and postage stamps amid hundreds of layers of paint. In Par terre avec as de coeur (2024), for instance, a playing card appears alongside crabs and shells, seamlessly blending into the composition. As Barcel贸 explains, the process is almost geological, 鈥渓ike waves washing over a beach.鈥�
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