Francesca Llopis Explained

Francesca Llopis (Barcelona, 1956) is a visual artist from Barcelona. She began exhibiting in 1981.[1] Her works are based and focused on her travels and on nature, mainly working on painting, drawing and video installations and collaborating with other artists such as Barbara Held and Robert Waytt. "Painting, drawing and image in movement are the basis and the main instrumental from which arises the system where I start any proposal".[2]

She has participated in some exhibitions in Spain, France, Switzerland, the United States, Italy, Germany, Korea, China, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan, and Japan.

Style

Her trajectory and pictorial work begins with the architecture and the influences of the Neo-expressionism movement of the 80s, which serve her to represent the urban culture. She is interested in the city for its urban planning, the city seen from above, and that is why she often uses the labyrinth as a metaphor for defining the city.[3] Her influences come, mainly, from the abstract expressionism [4] [5] of the American painting and from artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Meret Oppenheim, Nancy Spero and Eva Hesse.[6]

Her latest works, of a more poetic and political nature, are made to be the viewer who completes them.

Artistic and professional career

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In 1976 Francesca Llopis enrolles at escola EINA where she meets Dani Freixes, América Sánchez, Albert Ràfols-Casamada, Maria Girona [8] and Manel Esclusa, among others. Between 1979 and 1981 she shares an interior design studio with Josep Maria Civit and Ton Auquer and obtains an artistic residence grant at the Teater Studio in the Pałac Kultury in Warsaw. The inevitable and foreseeable coup d'etat transforms and creates a new pictorial imaginary to the artist, making her to question the lyrical abstraction of her first stage. From this inflection point, the "trip" will constitute a fundamental part of her process in the artistic work.[9] Between 1983 and 1986, she begins her professional career: Història d'una temptació (History of a temptation) at MedaMOTHI in Montpellier, Barcelona trasbalsada (Barcelona overwhelmed) at Metronome and Els dits gèlids (The Frozen fingers) at Maeght gallery,[10] in Barcelona, and Tráfico de efectos (Traffic of effects) at Montenegro gallery in Madrid. In 1988, she has an artist's residence at the Accademia di Roma and at the École des Beaux Arts of Nîmes, where Arnau Puig defines her painting as "semantic structuralism" in reference to her obsession with the built space and the meaning of words. In 2002 she presents her first video installation 2 habitacions amb vistes (2 rooms with views), a social portrait of Barcelona. In 2004 she develops ETC as a work in progress to discuss the absence of women artists in the history of art. In 2009, a new pictorial stage begins where inks and notebooks are assembled randomly, rising to different artistic artefacts, films and murals. In 2015, she participates in the Biennial of Noseden (Art line),[11] in Japan, with Dealers of memory, which consists of two interventions: the video installation Apunts per un iceberg (Notes for an iceberg), in the Kurokawana school and the installation Llibre de llàgrimes (Book of tears) in the Myoken temple where she relates the intimate and the public, the original and the Universe. In 2016, in the SakaiArtePorto exhibition in Japan, she makes the installation Traction action from joining humanity to the Universe through an infinity made with pink pigmental footprints from the city's walkers. She makes a residence on performance at Art in Nature in Busan, Korea. In 2017, she presents the installation Llum! (Light!)[12] with neon and glass at Montjuïc Castle in Barcelona, as a reflection of historical memory,[13] the performance us & the state of things in Köln, Barcelona and other places, and Big Draw at Picasso Museum in Barcelona with Insecta'm and Enjardina't (Insect me and Garden yourself).

Individual and permanent exhibitions

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Collective work and festivals

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Grants, prizes and editions

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Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: L'artista Francesca Llopis torna al Japó. VilaWeb. 2018-04-01. 2018-02-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20180211072248/https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/lartista-francesca-llopis-torna-al-japo/. dead.
  2. Web site: 70% Negre - 75% Aigua. artAcasa.
  3. Book: Llopis, Francesca. Duc un cuc al cap. Fundació Espais d'Art Contemporani. 2006.
  4. Web site: En el laberinto. Doladé. Sergi. Metal Magazine.
  5. Book: GIRALT-MIRACLE, Daniel. Els nous camins estètics. Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  6. Web site: Francesca Llopis: la pintura como proceso vital. ADELL. Anna. Setdart.
  7. Web site: LOOP Barcelona.
  8. COMBALÍA. Victoria. Maria Girona (1923-2015). Lejos de las modas. La Vanguardia. 11 March 2015 .
  9. Web site: INSECTA'M I ENJARDINA'T. Museu Picasso, Barcelona.
  10. BORRÀS. Maria Lluïsa. 4 November 1986. Pintura de mujer, no: simplemente pintura. La Vanguardia. 49.
  11. Web site: Francesca Llopis: Noseden Art Line y SakaiArtePorto, Japón. ESPAI10.COM.
  12. Web site: LLUM! intervenció artística de Francesca Llopis. AJUNTAMENT DE BARCELONA. 20 December 2016 .
  13. Web site: INTERVENCIÓ ARTÍSTICA DE FRANCESCA LLOPIS AL CASTELL DE MONTJUÏC. bonart.
  14. Web site: N2Galeria. Francesca Llopis.
  15. Web site: Nosaltres & l'estat de les coses. Chillida. Gisela. Núvol.

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