Formentera: A series of Photographs by Francesc Arno

Francesco Arno is a photographer who has traveled a long and wide path that forms a demanding field of advertising photography. Born in Barcelona in 1947, today he is among the most renowned professionals of the world for photographs of Spain.

Arno has developed his work in various photographic disciplines, including reportage and landscape photography, which constitute the basic themes of his personal work.

A good example of his work is the series Formentera that is presented today in BDG NEWS. The collection is made up of almost twenty images from the Island of Pitiusa.

The reproductions that you can admire in Barcelona Design Gallery are of large scale and made of dibond aluminum. 

Upon viewing them, many might question whether the collection is made up of photographs or paintings, but no one can doubt that they are authentic works of art. You can view the full series on BDGs Facebook page.

All of the pictures in the series Formentera by Francesco Arno can be produced in the measurements and support specified by the client.

Sonia Creus: creative textures and unique chromatic combinations

This oil painting by Sonia Creus is part of the permanent art collection of Barcelona Design Gallery.

With an artistic career dedicated to color and textures, this Catalan artist started in the textile industry. There during the 80´s, she studied fashion design in the avant-garde cities such as Barcelona and Milan. She spent these years dedicated to a professional career of fashion, not only for women´s clothes, but also for color prints and tapestries.

Beginning in 1995, she began decorative works, applying her creativity and ability to paint to tables, walls and furniture, often using trompe l´oeil technique and other decorative effects with texture.

Since 2007, she has dedicated her career to making paintings commissioned for individuals as well for hotels, banks and other public spaces. Her work is characterized by the use of textures and the combination of natural colors as seen in the painting ´Warm Window´, pictured below.

Warm Window, oil painting by Sonia Creus

Sculpture and Painting works by Diego Guirao

The iron sculptural work and oil paintings of Diego Guirao are part of the Permanent Art Collection of Barcelona Design Gallery.

 Iron Sculpture in the series "Urban Anatomy"- Measurements: 22x90x40cm

Diego Guirao was born in Mataró (Barcelona) in 1956 y studied Fine Arts at the Faculty of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Since 1979, his work has appeared in exhibitions in galleries in Barcelona, Madrid, Zurich, NewYork, Rome and Palermo and can be seen, among others, in the Museum of Mexical (Mexico), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Porreras, Mallorca), the DOBE Collection (Zurich, New York) or in the National Library of Madrid.

"Tryptech in oil painting" by Diego Guirao - 123x104cm

"La Vida" by Pepa Poch stars in BDGs new showcase

"La vida" is the most recent creation of the passionate Catalan artist that can now be admired in BDG. It is an impressive oil painting on flax canvas measuring 170x30cm, which represents teh passage of time and living expieriences, a personal infinite path that invites reflection. The rich blues, violets, turquoise and gold are spiritual and healing.

As Pepa Poch once said in an interview with writer and journalist María José Wynn: "Painting is a way of reasoning, an opportunity to deepn my vision of reality. Many times it is to arrange all my being in order to understand that constant external provocation to the unconscious. I enjoy when the unconscious gets underway. Then I feel the temperature of light on what I want to paint. I begin to notice the emergence of color and feel the need to balance the tones and harmonize the contrasts of energy that I am receiving. Everything is real, the theme to paint, the emotion that gives character to the box, and the illusion that transforms visual reality is a huge process of transformation of reality because there is also a process of intellectual and emotional growth.

The creator in Barcelona Design Gallery in front of her work "La Vida" (2012)

"Mystique of the East" Jagdish Thackersey´s newest collection of photography

Mystique of the East is the original work of Jagdish Thackersey that focuses on Asian spirituality. This Bombay industrial photographer, invites viewers to delight their senses through twenty beautiful, black and white images. Together, these pieces share themes such as exotic nature and the piety and the mystique of certain Asian regions. It is a question of a subjective psychological reflection, which the author obtains in digitally transforming the original photos.

The resulting images have been reproduced on aluminium dibond by EGM laboratories. This technique of photographic reproduction of exceptional quality, as well as their large scale, make the collection a spectacular sight.

We illustrate this article with our favorite images. The original photograph was taken by Jagdish Thackersey in March of 2009 on the banks of the Narmanda River. This River is especially notable as it passes through Chandod, one of the most sacred towns in India, famous for the celebration of Hindu burial rituals.

The collection "Mystique of the East" by Jagdish Thackersey is part of the Permanent Art Collection of Barcelona Design Gallery.

If you would like to see the photos from the exhibits opening, held in November 2009, you may visit the albums published on Facebook. You can also follow the photographic work of Jagdish Thackersey through BDG´s Facebook page.