Galeria Marc Domènech

Galeria Marc Domènech is focused on promoting and defending the art of the 20th century. Its activity is aimed at working with the most representative works of the main national and international artists of this period.

As well as focusing its efforts on this line of historical avant-garde, Galeria Marc Domènech also directs its activity to boost and promote two more lines of work that simultaneously define the profile of the gallery; one on contemporary art and the other entitled "Artists rediscovered" focused on recuperating artists from the past who have not received their deserved recognition.

Represented artists:

Pic Adrian, Esther Boix, Magda Bolumar, Francisco Bores, Georges Braque, Victor Brauner, Rafael Canogar, Agustín Cárdenas, Gaston Chaissac, Lynn Chadwick, Eduardo Chillida, Martín Chirino, Christo, Luis Claramunt, Antoni Clavé, Germán Cueto, Salvador Dalí, Óscar Domínguez, Jean Dubuffet, Xavier Escribà, Luis Feito, Luis Fernández, Angel Ferrant, Lucio Fontana, Albert Gleizes, Julio González, Juan Gris, José Guerrero, Hans Hartung, Auguste Herbin, Paul Klee, Wifredo Lam, Henri Laurens, Fernand Léger, Sol LeWitt, Jacques Lipchitz, Baltasar Lobo, Alberto Magnelli, Louis Marcoussis, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Jean Metzinger, Manolo Millares, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Zoran Music, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz, Ana Peters, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Enric Planasdurà, Manuel Rivera, Antonio Saura, Teo Soriano, Antoni Tàpies, Joaquín Torres García, Victor Vasarely, Esteban Vicente, Vicenç Viaplana, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Moisès Villèlia

This is the first individual exhibition dedicated to the artist since 2006 and it highlights a body of work that has become more relevant over the years. The exhibition includes some of her most emblematic works painted between the late 1950s and early 1970s - a period marked by her departure from naturalistic realism and the development of an expressive style with a strong psychological component.

In the works of this period, the artist very consciously used strong colours and forceful figurative forms to denounce the numerous social injustices perpetuated by the Franco regime and, in particular, the abuse against women. Esther Boix (Llers, Alt Empordà, 1927-Anglès, 2014) was always a politically committed artist who chose to express plastically her desire to focus on human experiences and leave the formal conception of the work on a second level.

During the sixties, she was one of the first artists, alongside other pioneers such as Ana Peters and Mari Chordá, to question the traditional roles of women. Her position as a leader of the Estampa Popular Group in Barcelona (1965-1968) -an anti-Francoist movement linked to the underground left- must also be framed in this context. Her inclination in favour of the struggle for values and social rights, pushed her to create paintings with powerful connotations of denunciation that during the early 70s, the "Hard Years" as she called them, were realized in a figurative style on the threshold between Pop Art and Social Realism. The "Dianes Series" (1971) and the "Bread Series" (1972) are a good example of this vindictive attitude that during the second half of the decade -as demonstrated by the "Holland Series" (1974 -75)- gave way to an almost abstract phase dominated by vivid colours and forms with strong biomorphic connotations.