In 1949, José Manuel Broto was born in Zaragoza and studied in Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Zaragoza to develop his work as a painter. He moved to Barcelona in 1972, where he did his firsts works closely associated with constructivism. In the same city, he founded Grupo Trama a year later with other artists and journalists like Gonzalo Tena or Javier Rubio. This group proposes a painting that explores the fields of abstraction in the face of the growing presence in Catalonia of conceptual practices. For this reason, his works are deeply abstract during this period.
In the eighties his work develops in big stands, focusing on the expressiveness, as well as on the contradictions of matter, color, and form. In addition, it will replace acrylic paint with oil, exploring all expressive possibilities of color through random compositions. However, on many occasions, constructivism and spatial organization emerge in his works, remitting to a painting where the straight line is engaged with the expressive power of the color stain. He coincided in Paris with artists such as Miquel Barceló, Miguel Ángel Campano, and José Maria Sicilia, where he resided from 1985 to 1995.
After France, he moved to Mallorca, where his artistic work continued evolving into a simplification of materials and forms. He began to introduce themes like space and atmospheric forms, as well as transparency, and many more.
List of artworks
Vísperas , 1980
A-3 , 1984
Meditació , 1984
Meditació , 1984
Vísperas , 1980
A-3 , 1984
Meditació , 1984
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.
27 works, 18 artists
Josep Suñol Collection
27 pieces from the Josep Suñol Collection to help expand visitors’ knowledge of 20th-century art.
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...
27 works, 18 artists
This exhibition puts together 27 pieces from the Suñol Soler Collection with the aim of expanding knowledge of 20th century art.
