Cocomir Talarn (Lerida) 1931.
Cocomir one of Spain´s most highly acclaimed artists, is, in the words of Carlos Arean, Director of the Spainish Museum of Contemporary Art, ´the Master of Form´.
With an untiring creative energy spanning over sixty years, his work continues to develop and evolve, inspire and enlighten. His compulsive desire to create has led to an incredible array of work, which includes sculpture, reliefs, jewellery, canes, lighting and furniture.
Trained as an architect, and recommended by Le Corbusier to work for Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil, he later collaborates with Piragibe da Fonseca. He moves from Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo and works with Da Rocha, Pinto and Netto.
He consequently abandons architecture and commits himself totally to sculpture, attracted to London by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and the Minimalists.
Introduced by Timothy Scott to Moore, with whom he works with for a short time, it is later with Joe Alberdi, Senior Professor at St Martin´s School of Art, with whom he learns and later collaborates.
He meets Herbert Read who introduces him into the art society and it is at the O´Hanna Gallery in London where he makes his first appearance as a sculptor.
He continues as a sculptor travelling and working throughout Europe. Finally settling in Sant Antonio de Calonge, near Girona, Spain, where he opens a window to the public minaturising his sculptures into gold and silver jewellery, his reliefs into mirrors and his formal studies into canes, pottery and furniture.
His passion and total commitment to the arts has led to his work being widely exhibited and sold throughout the world, his objects becoming increasingly valued and renowned.
His work is also on permanent display in various museums and private collections.
Exposiciones y Realizaciones:
1968 Ohanna Gallery (Londres).
1968 Grosvenor Gallery (Londres)
1970 “Metalofagias y Narcisos” - Galería Adriá (Barcelona).
1972 “Integraciones” - Galería Seiquer (Madrid).
1972 “Integración I” escultura gran formato - Museo Adriá (Cubellas).
1972 Escultura monumental para el Museo de las Provincias (Fundación Estrada Saladich).
1975/1980 Galería Sapone (Niza)
- Galería Grifón (Paris)
- Galerie Art Nouveau (Mentón)
- Arte Structura (Milano)
- La Botega d’Arte (Vicenza)
- Galería Espace Maestá (Pescara)
- Galería Espace Maestá (Milano)
- Galería Espace Maestá (Maceratta)
- Galería Tom Maddock (Barcelona)
- Galería Fontana D’Or(Girona)
1982 Círculo Ecuestre (Barcelona) – Exposición “Bastones Escultura”
1983 Galería Lleonart (Barcelona) – “Bastones Escultura”
1985 Galería Berruete (Logroño)
1986 Galería Art 3 (Figueras) – “Tocar y Veure”
1988 Exposiciones con Art Catalá Difusió en Frankfurt y Munich
1989 Inhorgenta 89 (Munich)
1989 International Art Center Hasselt (Bélgica)
1990 Galería Forum (Girona) – “Confluencias” Joyería Copntemporánea
1991 Galería La Punxa – “Diàleg d’Escultors” Exposición con Emilia Xargay
1991 Galería Forum (Girona) – “Grabados y Bastones”
1991 Edificio Matic S.A. (Barcelona) – “Mural Escultura” (madera policromada - 7x8 m.)
1992 Edificio Tileu S.A. (Granollers) – “Escultura de Pared” (2 piezas de 290x80cm.-280x80cm. en madera pol.)
1992 Edificio Nautic Palace (Platja D’Aro) – “Relieve sobre Pared (Piedra artificial 40 m.)
1993 Art Centre (Andorra)
1993 Escultura sobre Agua (Aigua Gelida) – Bronce
1994 Art Centre Caldea (Andorra) – “L’Art del Moble”
1994 Galería Contrast (Barcelona) – “Joya Viva”
1994 Plaça del Mil.lenari (Vic) – Escultura “La Vida” (acero corten y bronce 4 m. de altura).
1995 Vêndome (Barcelona) – “150 Bastones Escultura”
1996 Espacio Cocomir’s (Sitges – Barcelona)
1996 Sala Santa Matrona (Barcelona) – “Terra i Arbres”
1996 Casa de Cultura Encam (Andorra).
1997 Feria de Arte “Artexpo” (Barcelona)
1997 Art Centre Costa Brava (Girona) – “Trovada d’Amics” Di Batista, Pere Camps, Cocomir, Matt Lamb Mercé Juves y Maríe de Romemont
1998 Centro Arcadia (Roma) – Mueble de Artista
1998 Galería Claudia (Houston) U.S.A.
1998 “Tagoror Pancho Bencomo” Isla de la Palma (Canarias) – Plaza y grupo escultórico bronce y corten 800m.
2000/2006 Esposición “Go Figure” (Houston) U.S.A.
-“De antes y de ahora”, Art Centre (Barcelona)
-“A Life’s work” Galerie Claudia, Houston(U.S.A.)
- Artistes per la Terra – Palau Rober (Barcelona) España
-Monumento al cava: “Volta del Raïm”- bronce/corten – 8m. altura, Sant Sadurni d´Anoia (Barcelona).
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