Mayoral

Founded in 1989, Mayoral is a gallery located in Barcelona and Paris. The gallery articulates an exhibition programme focused on post-war and contemporary art with artists such as Tàpies, Chillida, Millares, Saura, Zóbel, Francés, Guerrero, Rivera and Chordà, as well as key twentieth-century avant-garde artists such as Miró and Picasso.

The gallery develops projects that are rigorously curated and grow out of an exhaustive process of research. The gallery relies upon the support of the artists’ families, foundations and other institutions as well as collectors and museums, both public and private, when it comes to accomplishing its mission.

Represented artists:

Jordi Alcaraz, Ana Barriga, Eduardo Chillida, Mari Chordà, Salvador Dalí, Juana Francés, Eulàlia Grau, Rafa Macarrón, Manolo Millares, Joan Miró, Aurèlia Muñoz, Adiana Oliver, Pablo Picasso, Marria Pratts, Manuel Rivera, Antonio Saura, Antoni Tàpies, Helena Vieira da Silva, Fernando Zóbel

The theme of the exhibition, and around which all the pieces revolve, is the mechanism of a sundial. Using different materials such as methacrylate, mirrors, ink, or iron, the artist breaks, from the genre itself, the limits of painting and sculpture. He thinks with his hands everything that reason cannot reach. As in an exercise of disappearance, the artist wants to become invisible, as if all the exhibited works occurred, by a strange chance, in a process of spontaneous creation. The work of Jordi Alcaraz (Calella, 1963) is, as Bernat Puigdollers told us, the result of a lucid and amazed look at the world, which focuses attention on subtle and imperceptible things.