RocioSantaCruz

RocioSantaCruz is a dynamic space for contemporary creation and thought in all its manifestations. Situated in the neuralgic center of Barcelona, the venue showcases projects by both established artists and emerging talents.

True to is trajectory since its creation in 1994 in Paris as a publisher of artists’ books, RocioSantaCruz honors its commitment to highlighting unpublished archives with the aim of sparking a conversation between the avant-gardes of the latter half of the 20th century and new contemporary practices. The gallery is conceived as a place for experimentation, a forum for discussion, and a space for the diffusion of new practices, where particular interest is paid to photography, experimental cinema, and the archive and publication of artists’ books.

Represented artists:

ORLAN, Teresa Gancedo, Pilar Aymerich, Toni Amengual, Colita, Gloria Oyarzabal, Mar Arza, Antoni Campañà, Vari Caramés, Blanca Casas Brullet, Ceesepe, Nicolás Combarro, Jean Denant, Oriol Vilapuig, Pep Duran, Gonzalo Elvira, Andrés Galeano, Marcel Giró, Lluís Hortalà, Ouka Leele, German Lorca, Fina Miralles, Miquel Mont, Marina Núñez, Lois Patiño, Diogo Pimentão, Palmira Puig, Raiña Lupa Ediciones, Miguel Rio Branco, América Sánchez, Montserrat Soto, Miguel Trillo, Sergio Vega

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend, the RocioSantaCruz gallery will present the first solo exhibition in Spain of Lionel Sabatté (Toulouse, Françe, 1975). Is a sculptor, painter, drawer and, more recently, photographer. Lionel Sabattéchas become known above all for his use of unusual materials in art, that extracts from the realm ofcthe discarded: in particular, dust, dead skin and nails. Clay also plays an important role in his work.

His exhibition at RocioSantaCruz will showcase all of Lionel Sabatté’s talent through a series of works created expressly for the occasion. Les Terres de l’Ebre, in the south of Catalonia, with its landscapes, its soil and its cave paintings of Cocó de la Gralla, has inspired him to create a series of sculptures, paintings, photographs and drawings of spellbinding beauty. The traces of time, between prehistory and the contemporary world, permeate the artist’s work.

*With the collaboration of the Ceysson & Bénétière gallery and Alain Quemin.