Girbent

* 1966 in Sóller

Girbent was born in Sóller (Balearic Islands) in 1969. In 1986 he enrolled at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona. He soon left the university and for a time was seen in the bohemian environments of the Mediterranean city. During this period he dedicated himself to watching movies and reading, especially essays and philosophy. In 1989 he traveled to the former GDR and managed to enroll in the famous Leizpig Art Academy, where he met Neo Rauch and met M. Weischer and T. Baumgartel. The fall of the Berlin Wall surprises him in Leizpig. In 1990 he exhibited his first paintings in the group exhibition The Wall, in an alternative space in Berlin. Simultaneously, he explored the world of comics and illustration, publishing (both comics and covers) in the best magazines in the world, such as Totem and Zona 84 in Spain, El Eternauta in Italy or Metal Hurlant in the US. A year later he left Germany and He travels to Mexico City, where he explores the possibilities of video, recording in the places that the Infrarealists frequented, such as the "Quito" café on Bucarelli Street (where he seems to still perceive the swarming of the spirits of Roberto Bolaño and Mario Santiago). In Mexico he continues to read compulsively, but his interest has shifted from essays to literature (Borges, Gadda, Joyce...). At the same time, his interest in video art and experimental cinema grows. He spent the years 1992 and 1993 in the Yucatan Peninsula, settling first in Mérida and then in Valladolid. After what he considers his Mexican period of reflection, he decides to return to his native Mallorca to devote himself to painting.

2024
Recent paintings. Galeria Pelaires. Palma de Mallorca

2023
La exposición infinita. Rimontgó, Valencia
Paintings (Spinoza series). The winkel. Rotterdam. Paises bajos
Interiors with figure (studies). Hall gallery. Seul. Corea del sur

2022
Recent charcoals. Galería Horrach Moyà, Palma de Mallorca
El Vermeer n 36. CAC Málaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga
El Vermeer n 36. Fundación Miró. Palma de Mallorca
Museum walls: The seven Vermeers. HM Sadrassana, Palma de Mallorca
Museum walls. HAL Gallery, Taegu, Corea del Sur
The Leibniz series. Suwa Art Museum (SAM), Shanghái, China
Mezzanine V. HM Sadrassana, Palma de Mallorca

2021
The Leibniz series. Zona Girbent. Galería Horrach Moyà, Palma de Mallorca
Mezzanine IV. HM Sadrassana, Palma de Mallorca
12 Pictures. Zona Girbent. Galería Horrach Moyà, Palma de Mallorca
Ad museum: La serie infinita. Zona Girbent. Galería Horrach Moyà, Palma de Mallorca
Ad museum project. (Múltiples sedes)

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