Robert Llimós was born in 1943 in Barcelona. He studied at Escola Massana and at Escola Superior de Belles Arts Sant Jordi de Barcelona. His pictorial career beginnings are along with Nova Figuració, he belongs to this movement among 1965 to 1968. During this period, he is closely bound to artists like Eduard Arranz Bravo, Rafael Bartolozzi o Gerard Sala, but his turn to conceptual art from 1969 disassociates him from these artists.
Even so, Llimós returns to figurative painting from 1973, with a more expressionist style and giving great importance to color. An important event in his work is the alien sighting he experienced in 2009 at Fortaleza’s beach (Brazil). Since then, his paintings revolve around this event, focusing on the figurative representation of this life changing experience.
Until now he has exhibited mainly in Catalonia, as well as around the Spanish state and some important cities like New York, Bucharest or Paris. Some of his works are in important institutions like Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MACBA or Museo de Arte Moderno do Espirito Santo in Brazil.
List of artworks
Sense títol , 1973
Desplegable , 1976
Cartell de festes de la Mercè , 1985
Cartell de festes de la Mercè , 1985
Sense títol , 1973
Desplegable , 1976
Cartell de festes de la Mercè , 1985
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.
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...
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.
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