Bernat Daviu

Born in: 1985
From: Fonteta, Spain
Lives and works: Barcelona, Spain
Represented by: Bombon Projects
Website: http://bernatdaviu.com/bio.html

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Biography

In an expansive exploration of art in everyday life, Bernat Daviu utilizes all techniques at hand to create a reciprocal relationship with the art and viewer. The activation of painted artworks, the ambiguity of the inside and outside of them, and giving special attention to the raw humanity that surrounds the experience of a work of art builds a dynamic social encounter.

The idea that an artwork is not fully itself if it hasn’t been activated is one that started to be explored in the 1960’s, notably by minimalist and conceptual artists like Franz Erhard Walther. The physicality is thus brought back into the work, and encountered in different manners each time.

Sonia Delaunay is a precursor of all-encompassing art, with projects ranging from immense canvas paintings, to clothes and car designs. She thus creates an englobing sensation, seeing the ordinary through a musical lens.

Career highlights

Solo shows

2021, MAC, Mataró, Spain: Just before the end of painting
2021, Bombon Projects, Barcelona, Spain: Sala d’espera
2021, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain: Intruders
2017, Fundació Arranz-Bravo, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain: Garrofistes
2016, Fundació Miró, Barcelona, Spain: Guanyar-se les garrofes

Group shows

2023, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain: Intención poètica
2020, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain: Ara Mateix
2020, Centre d’Art Maristany, Sant Cugat del Vallés, Spain: Truth and Lies in Contemporary Art
2019, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain: La pintura. Un reto permanente
2016, Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK: Slow, thick fingers