Oriol Vilapuig

Oriol Vilapuig (Sabadell, 1964)

He studied at the Escola d’Art EINA in Barcelona (1982-1985) and graduated in Fine Arts from the Sant Jordi Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona (1985-1990).

The artistic work of Oriol Vilapuig takes the form of essay as both procedure and methodology. The essay as a form of study and open inquiry, a continuous drift that overflows any imaginary, and also as a way of defining or questioning the limits of our experience. This experience is made visible, largely thanks to tradition, understood as that which precedes us. Hence the constant use in his works of the quotation and appropriation of other authors that also appear in the form of writing.
His work is inscribed in the will to create imaginaries around reiterated themes in our collective memory such as desire, loss, eroticism, the body, fear, language and time.
This repetitive work in the use of images is conditioned by a sort of poiesis, that is, a trigger that produces meaning and invites us to consider both the position of the author and the positions of those who approach them

 

Selection of individual exhibitions

• 2022 “Empty images“, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona
• 2020 “Son. Footsteps and figurations in the Valls d’Àneu“, MNAC, Barcelona
• 2017 “The sexual night“, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona
• 2014 “Such a fatal desire“, Casa Sin Fin Gallery, Madrid
• 2011 “The most ancient”, Joan Prats–Artgràfic Gallery, Barcelona
• 2009 “Essais”, Joan Prats–Artgràfic Gallery, Barcelona
• 2008 “1970”, cycle of interventions in the lobby, Fundació la Caixa, Lleida
  “The Nature of things”, La Caja Negra Gallery, Madrid

 

Selection of collective exhibitions

• 2019 “Aplicación Murillo“, Hospital de los Venerables, Sala ICUS, Sevilla
• 2016 “La lliçó de Diògenes” (“The lesson of Diogenes“), TECLA SALA, L’Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona.
• 2015 “Contours of the audiovisual: Points for a movement that surrounds“, Tabakalera, San Sebastian.
• 2014 “Interaccions – A present look at the fons d’art of l’antiga caixa Sabadell“, THE FUNDACIÓ ANTIGA CAIXA DE SABADELL, Barcelona
• 2013 “Against Tàpies”, (amb l’obra “l’Erotisme – Georges Bataille”, 2012), FUNDACIÓ TÀPIES, Barcelona
• 2012 “Episodis Crítics (1957-2011). MACBA Collection”, MACBA, Barcelona “Contemporary Maps”, CaixaForum, Barcelona
• 2007 “Arco’ 07”, The Black Box Gallery, Madrid

 

Collections and museums

• Babilonia Wilner Foundation, San Francisco, EEUU.
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
• Museo Bellas Artes de Álava Col·lecció Testimoni-la Caixa, Barcelona.
• Col·lecció Ajuntament de Sabadell.
• Col·lecció Banc Sabadell.
• Col·lecció Caixa de Sabadell, Comunidad Autónoma de Múrcia.
• Col·lecció Vichy Catalan, Girona.
• Universitat de València.
• Fundación Cañada Blanch, València.
• Diario Levante, València
• Diputación Provincial Castilla La Mancha,Ciudad Real.
• Museu d’Art de Sabadell.
• Fundación Santa María, Albarracín

 

Collaborations with Riccardo Massari Spiritini and Mim Juncà with whom he creates collectives “Oblicua”

• 2007 “Mus in Pice” visual and sound work of 40 minutes with light frequencies, projections, shadows and various objects with sound frequencies and acoustic sounds. Theater L’Estuch Sabadell
• 2004 “Tiro al Fantoccio”, live music show for electronic pianola with animated images, Music Festival, Metronom, Barcelona, ​​Universitat d’Alacant, Alacant, Reus Film Festival, 2005: L’Estruch, Sabadell, Col ·legi Major Rector Peset, University of Valencia, Valencia, 2006: Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
• 2002 “Painting Music”, Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona CCCB and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Participates in the artistic collective “Jacques Moran”

• 2007 “Happy Days II” Museu Empordà, Figueres. “Happy Days III” Escola Eina, Barcelona
• 2006 “Happy Days” Empordà Museum, Figueres

 

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