Born in 1946 in Barcelona, Sergi Aguilar studied at Escola Massana and Conservatori de les Arts del Llibre between 1962 and 1967. During this period he appears to be interested in the work of Juli González, Jorge Oteiza, Constantin Brancusi, and the Russian constructivists. Later he will stay in Paris, London, Prague, Stuttgart, and Menorca expanding his training and creative interests.
His work as a sculptor starts in 1972 through the observation and the analysis of nature, carrying out postminimalist works with marble, until the final of the eighties. After this moment he began to work with steel, building sculptures of different planes. From 1993 he began to work on drawing and photographs of places that he visited, and later on, started to focus on sculpture. The beginning of the 2000s will lead to him abandoning sculpture as the only means of work, turning the focus on the territory as the main tool in his work.
He did several exhibitions, individual and collective, around the galleries of Europe and the United States, and in museums like the Guggenheim Museum of New York, the Carnegie Museum of Art of Pittsburgh, or the Foundation Gulbenkian of Lisboa. Also, we can find his works in public spaces of cities, such as Barcelona, Vila-Seca, or Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Between 1996 and 2002 he was the president of AAVC (Associació d’Artistes Visuals de Catalunya), and then, between 2004 and 2007, of UAAV (Unión de Asociaciones de Artistas Visuales). Since 2007 he is the director of the Fundació Suñol.
List of artworks
Angle , 1973-1974
Sèrie tronc, espai, terra, eina , 1974-1976
Múltiple 2-3 , 1978
Múltiple 2-3 , 1978
Nord , 1989
Blinky , 1990-1991
Angle , 1973-1974
Nord , 1989
Sèrie tronc, espai, terra, eina , 1974-1976
Blinky , 1990-1991
Múltiple 2-3 , 1978
Press articles
1915 – 1995
Col·lecció Josep Suñol
Owing to the number of works in the collection, the first show included a selection of the most representative pieces dating from 1915 to 1995.
1970 – 2001
Josep Suñol Collection
Conceptual art, minimal art and arte povera of extreme radicalism in its thinking, in dramatic contrast to attitudes since then.
Signs and Writing
Josep Suñol Collection
Collective exhibition which hosts around fifty works, all of them part of collection funds and carried out between 1972 and 2008.
Sculpture/Object
Josep Suñol Collection
36 pieces from the Josep Suñol Collection, ranging from the early avant-garde up to the most daring experiments of the 1990s.
5th Anniversary
Josep Suñol's Collection
A fresh insight into his collection that can help us understand the function of art in society.
Continuum
Josep Suñol Collection
A journey through the last ninety years of artistic creation and offers an excellent platform for thinking about 20th-century art.
On paper
Josep Suñol Collection
Josep Suñol’s fascination with work on paper is strikingly captured by the fact that over thirty per cent of the pieces in his contemporary art collection are done on...
Nothing Stops
Josep Suñol and Centre d'Art La Panera Collections
Dialogue between the Suñol’s Collection and the collection built up by Lleida City Council over the course of the editions of the Leandre Cristòfol Art Biennial.
Dialogues of the Gaze
A selection of works from the Col·lecció Josep Suñol with the aim of reflecting on the importance of the gaze.
Portrait: 1971-1987
Fernando Vijande
We brought together 51 artists to talk about Fernando Vijande, the gallerist who supported the work of all those who exhibited at the Galería Vandrés and the Galería Vijande.
Everything Solid Fades Away
In Three Acts
The second act, titled Everything Solid Fades Away, is a journey through a group of works that allow us to understand the extent to which the abstract pulsation did...
Itineraries
Dialogues of the Gaze
EL QUE SAPS / EL QUE SENTS / EL QUE PERCEPS: tres itineraris de l'exposició Diàlegs de la mirada.
La Nit dels Museus 2016
Free entry on May 21st of 2016, from 7pm to 1am.
Literarture
Fall 2017
This fall we take up Literarture, an activity focused in the relationship between art and literature.
Open days
December 2017 and January 2018
Visit for free the current exhibition at the Fundació Suñol Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987 to say goodbye to 2017 and salute the new year 2018.
Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987
José Luis Alexanco and Daniel Giralt-Miracle
José Luis Alexanco —artist and coorganizer of the exhibition— and Daniel Giralt-Miracle —art critic and historian— will lead a tour visit of Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987 on Monday, February 5.
Guided tours to Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987
The Fundació Suñol organizes some commented tours for individual audience through the exhibition Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987.
Sculpture/Object
The exhibition Sculpture/Object was the first of various commemorative events for Fundació Suñol’s 5th anniversary, held in 2012. It showed 36 pieces from the Collection.
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