Gerard Sala, in memoriam
Gerard Sala i Rosselló (Tona 1942-Badalona 2024) has died. This artist can be considered to be from Badalona, since he resided for many years in our city, although he spent long periods in Sant Joan de les Abadesses, where he had his workshop from the middle eighties
It was precisely in Sant Joan where, between March 9th and June 9th this year, you could see his last exhibition, which showed the pictorial work that, accompanied by a text, he had presented in 1985 as a doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, where he was a professor. This thesis was a real innovation due to the fact that it gave pictorial practice a greater prominence than the theoretical study, and it obtained the highest qualification.
Dedicated mainly to painting and graphic work, but also to sculpture, scenography and poetry, Gerard Sala held about fifty individual exhibitions and participated in more than a hundred collective ones, some of international scope.
His work, which was the object of the interest of critics and scholars, can be found in museums and collections in different cities, such as Barcelona, Girona, Sabadell, Ibiza, Madrid, Jaén and Seville.
At the Badalona Museum, which also preserves his work, he exhibited individually in 1985 and 2005 (in the latter case, a catalog was also published, entitled, like the show, Els ulls del mar). In addition, he is the author of the sculpture La porta del mar, which can be seen in Carrer de Sant Anastasi, and which was inaugurated in 2003.
Rest in peace, Gerard. We will miss you.
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