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WORK / 1962-68

The third period is that of consolidation, 1962 – 1968.

He has bravely left his job in Mollet. He has settled in the city, in Barcelona, his four sons are at boarding school, on grants, and his daughter works. Now he can dedicate himself completely. He divides his time with various jobs, but all related to art, the creative work, as economically he is at the worst point of his life. Paradoxically, his work will be recognised and rewarded. He gets to know Cirici Pellicer, who projects his paintings; Josep Maria de Sucre. He attends social meetings and is invited to many exhibitions. He becomes founder of “Grup 5 Forma”. He obtains a mention of honour at the Joan Miró art prize and a prize at the “Sureste” in Elche, Alicante.  It is the abstract “tachism” which hits the mark with his style, “informalism”. He has left his paintbrushes and the spatula. He works on paper and on wood, sometimes on canvas, with dyes, nearly always black with various densities and tones, sometimes thickened with walnut.

But, true to his way of doing things, he searches parallelly in new figures, in what he calls sculpture-paintings; he paints on wood, cloth, making holes in it, raising it, submerging it, creating reliefs with cloth and a mixture of plaster, glue, sawdust and sometimes pieces of wood stuck together. At the beginning using dark colours but rapidly dedicating himself exclusively to brilliant white, which hurts. It is the white of the soil of his village, Albaida. Sometimes the themes are hidden, a sort of construction, but most of them are of what has been his favourite theme throughout his career: eroticism, sex, woman. After 1965 and within the same sculpture-painting line, the theme subject would also be the denouncement of society.

Homage to Mondrian

Homage to Mondrian

1962 - 78x61 - Watercolour on paper
Woman with string instruments

Woman with string instruments

1962 - 118x91 - Oil on hardboard, palette knife
We are a nation of shopkeepers

We are a nation of shopkeepers

1962 - 81x66 - Oil on canvas
Man

Man

1962 - 117x89x5 - Sculptopainting gypsum, sawdust, white lead
Female internal anatomy

Female internal anatomy

1963 - 117x91x15 - Sculptopainting gypsum, sawdust, white lead
Both sex

Both sex

1962 - 83x67x9 - Sculptopainting gypsum, sawdust, white lead
The dream with Picasso

The dream with Picasso

1963 - 65x54 - Sculptopainting gypsum, sawdust, white lead
Organum núm 4

Organum núm 4

1963 - 116x89 - Ink, walnut stain on canvas - Contribution to the Prize of Granollers, mentioned by Cirici Pellicer
Graphos núm. 7

Graphos núm. 7

1962 - 91x118 - Chalk, sawdust, glue, oil on canvas
Iberia, dry and slave

Iberia, dry and slave

1965 - 180x102x18 - Sculptopainting gypsum, sawdust, white lead - Contribution to Saló de Maig of 1966
Vulva

Vulva

1963 - 81x65 - Sculptopainting gypsum, sawdust, white lead
They make us monarchists for the hellof it

They make us monarchists for the hellof it

1966 - 81x60x40 - Sculptopainting gypsum, sawdust, white lead Chair, doll, card - Beginning of Artgandul
Peace returns to Angola

Peace returns to Angola

1968 - 80x55 - Wood, chalk, sawdust, white lead, collage
Suggested underwater mine

Suggested underwater mine

1963 - 65x54x 25 - Gypsum, sawdust, white lead, mirror, rope
Organum number 3

Organum number 3

1962 - 65x48 - Ink on paper - Southeast Elx award, bronze medal 1962
Organum number 8

Organum number 8

1962 - 50x34 - Ink on paper
Darkness with light

Darkness with light

1962 - 65x50 - Ink on paper
Glazings

Glazings

1963 - 65x50 - Ink on paper
White glance

White glance

1966 - 41x55 - Ink on paper
Cyclops woman

Cyclops woman

1966-68? - 85x65 - Oil on canvas
Ironing room

Ironing room

1963 - 93x75x12 - Sculptopainting gypsum, sawdust, white lead - Museum of Contemporary Art Vicente Aguilera Cerni “MACVAC” Vilafamés (Castelló)
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