Tourist at the overlook. 71 cm x 55 cm. Acrylic / carton. 2024


 


Terrat al Poble Sec. 50 cm x 70 cm. Oil & Acrylic / canvas. 2023


 

Hombre tomando la fresca. 42 cm x 29,5 cm. Acrylic / 300g watercolour paper. 2024


 


Summer in the city. 2011. oil on canvas. 160 cm x 252 cm





 Old man smoking. 28 cm x 28 cm. Acrylic / Canvas. 2024

 

Gonzalo CENTELLES is a multifaceted artist who, despite his youth, has a wide experience of more than two decades. His main disciplines are painting and drawing, although he has also delved into sculpture created from the assembly of found objects, as well as traditional modeling sculpture using plaster, welded iron, ceramics and granite. Similarly, the artist develops a line of digital work. He also has musical interests that he puts into practice with his musical group, " The Lebowskis " .

His paintings have a unique and very personal style based, above all, on the observation of everyday scenes. The artist knows how to portray these situations with a certain irony and with a subtle sense of humor.

The characters and scenes portrayed are very varied and can range from situations in urban environments to beach scenes or characters from the rural world. These characters are sometimes depicted in an almost grotesque manner, exagerating certain details.

His style is as a cocktail that brings together various artistic trends to result in a work with a clear familiar tone. All of this is supported by a sometimes risky use of color, with an exhaustive game of chromatic interactions that catches the observer’s attention. Also noteworthy is his search for impossible perspectives that surprise for their audacity and courage.

Technically, Centelles has always been an artist with a great number of pictorial resources. But, by the same token, he has always been a very perfectionist artist with his own work and with a high level of self-demand that, at the same time, likes experimentation.

All this contributes to make the vision of his paintings very dynamic and surprising, as well as endearing.

Joan Carles Vicente. World gallery art director.


 Barcelona cactus garden. 60 cm x 130 cm. Oil & acrylic / canvas. 2023


 Opera. 114 cm x 162 cm. Oil & acrylic / canvas. 2020


 Bathroom. 73 cm x 100 cm. Oil & acrylic / canvas. 2023


 Night urban landscape. 44 cm x 44 cm. Oil & acrylic / canvas. 2023


 Mirador de l'Alcalde ( BCN ). 54 cm x 27 cm. Acrylic / canvas. 2024



Mussol de la plaça Verdaguer. 42 cm x 29,5 cm. Acrylic / 300g watercolour paper. 2024

 


 


 Roofs at " El Poble Sec " ( BCN ). 34 cm x 46,5 cm. Acrylic / canvas. 2024


 Girl at the window. 30 cm x 40 cm. OIl & acrylic / canvas. 2024


 

Hombre con bolsa. 49 cm x 38,5 cm. Acrylic / wood. 2024

 

Chica en bicicleta. 24 cm x 30 cm. Oil & acrylic / canvas. 2024


El afilador. 73 cm x 54 cm. Oil & acrylic / canvas. 2023


 Early breakfast. 61 cm x 50 cm. Oil  / canvas. 2024

 

Mujer en la bañera.  46 cm x 66 cm. Acrylic / canvas. 2023



 

 

CENTELLES - A new concept of pop-expressionism
 
By Javier Carles and Marila Gomez Alarcon.
Journalists and art critics.
Members of the International Association of Art Critics.
2008

New, different, bright, ironic, funny and even acid is the painting of this young Catalan artist, able to draw everything from every possible angle, with the insertion of characters in a first, second and even third level, to give his works a halo of the three-dimensional image away from the flat pop. Suggesting a chromatic expressionist vibration charged on the canvas in a display of vital freedom. With details on the background he succeeds in creating an atmosphere that make more reliable the developments of his characters and their environment, his loose stroke, worthy of the most outstanding artists, does not elude the licenses of someone who knows about the painting technique of art and who enjoys applying it to his whim, small details that enrich a work to be analyzed with interest and which shows the pictorial skills of this author, Gonzalo Centelles, who should be followed closely.
While others opted for the autobiography or the vague representation of existential emptiness, to raise his ideas on the possibilities of art, Centelles tells us a story that is real, while we become tender and excited. But in addition, today more than ever, he returns to play with reality to lead us to all sorts of winks. He combines imagination with realism, logic with fantasy, showing constant philosophical, sociological and anthropological proposals. Highlighting, also, his concerns about geometry and perception on the painting and his ability to suggest. Showing clearly his goal: to build a world with icons of the moment he has lived full of wit and arguments.
Pay sincere attention to this work. You will perceive that it comes out from inside the creating heart of the artist who paints necessarily with the indestructible strength of his internal ego. He forgets of what is established, and he visually rests of those images that have been previously projected in his conscience. You will see how this creator of the brush is gradually walking on the path built by great artists in their passage through life.


 
 
 
LIFE THE CITY

By Anna Adell / In Arte Actual /  9 diciembre, 2016
Setdart. Barcelona . 2016
Using only pictorial resources, Gonzalo Centelles immerses us in everyday experiences almost synesthetic, where the form transmits 
celerity and color seems to emit all the symphonic notes of the big city: the pushing in the subway, beeps, squeaky wheels ... or the 
Human warmth and the aroma of coffee in the corner bar; The emotion shared in a soccer field or in an automobile race ... It speaks to us, 
in short, of the beauty of living, sometimes with sarcasm but always with tenderness. As for the formal, Gonzalo defines himself as a cocktail, 
and certainly stirs with skill in his cubilete languages ​​derived from expressionism and fauve, but also from urban art..
 

 

 

Belle blue. 46 cm x 61 cm. Oil & Acrylic / canvas. 2022

 

 

Drassanes . 18 cm x 24,5 cm. Acrylic / canvas. 2023


                    

Rock band at the studio. 40 cm x 100 cm. Mixed media / canvas . 2022

                               

Boadas. 73 cm x 116 cm. Mixed media / canvas . 2022

                                                                     SOLD




 
 Xocolata amb xurros. 40,5 cm x 30,5 cm. Oil & acrylic / canvas . 2023
 

 


 
    French fries. 30 cm x 40 cm. oil & acrylic / canvas . 2022

 


 

                                  Cactus. Mixed media / board. 68 cm x 43 cm. 2021


 

                                 


                  Boquerones, olivas y piparra. 24 cm x 18 cm. Oil & acrylic / canvas. 2018


 

                       Plants a the terrace. 90 cm x 65 cm. Mixed media / canvas. 2018


 

                     Love in the jungle. 123 cm x 85 cm. Mixed media / DM board. 2020


                             Swimmingpool. 80 cm x 100 cm. Oil / canvas. 2018


                                Laundry. 100 cm x 136 cm. Mixed media / canvas. 2020
 

  

                                       Lunch in Playa Blanca. 60 cm x 80 cm. 2018 

                                                                      SOLD

 


                                Peixateria. 81 cm x130 cm. Mixed media / canvas. 2020

                                                                                SOLD



Camp Nou stadium. 2019, oil &  acrylic  / canvas, 81 cm x 81 cm

SOLD

                                          Calçots. 2011. oil on woodboard. 69 cm x 54 cm

                                                                  SOLD

E X H I B I T I O N H I S T O R Y



 
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2000 Auditori de Vinaròs, Vinaròs, Castelló, Comunitat  Valenciana
2001 Celler Can Ginestar, St. Just Desvern, Barcelona
2003 Centre d'expressió plàstica “TRAÇ”, Barcelona
2003 Galería kadakes  s. XXI, Barcelona
2005 Galería Trébol, Barcelona
2008 Jadite Galleries, New York, (USA)
2008 The Art Hotel Estela BCN, Sitges, Barcelona
2008 Escola d'Hosteleria de Barcelona, Barcelona
2009 Hotel Fontanals, Alp, Girona
2009 Museu Cerdà, Puigcerdà, Girona
2011 Celler Can Ginestar, St. Just Desvern, Barcelona
2011 The Art Hotel Estela BCN, Sitges, Barcelona
2012 Galería Hartmann-La Santa, Barcelona
2013 - 2016 CENTELLES ART STUDIO, Barcelona
2023  The Art Hotel Estela BCN, Sitges, Barcelona
2024  Barcelona Cryptocenter, Barcelona

 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1999 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona
2000 Ateneu de St. Just Desvern, Barcelona
2000 Finalista III bienal d'art jove Fundació “Sant Gervasi”, Barcelona
2001 Col·lectiva urbana, Centre d'expressió plàstica “TRAÇ”, Barcelona
2003 Galería kadakes s. XXI, Barcelona
2005 & 2006 Galería Trébol, Barcelona
2009 Joves creadors, Celler Can Ginestar, St.Just Desvern, Barcelona
2012 Galería ART5, Madrid
2012 Galería Hartmann-La Santa, Barcelona
2015 Stonebreaker Gallery - Union street art fair, San Francisco, (USA)
2015 CENTELLES ART STUDIO, Barcelona
2016 ART HALL First Gallery, Rancho Mirage, Palm Springs. CA , (USA)
2022 Art Number 23 Gallery, Barcelona
2023 Abartium Galería & Estudio. Calldetenes, Barcelona
2024 Abartium Galería & Estudio. Montesquiu, Barcelona
2024 Galería Uxval Gochez, Barcelona


EXTRA

2000  Finalist. 3th Young art bienal  Fundació Sant Gervasi, Barcelona.

2014 Stem Cell Reports cover ( ISSCR ). January 14. 2014. VOLUME 2. Number 1
          (http://www.cell.com/stem-cell-reports/issuepii=S2213-6711(14)X0002-0)

2016  Guest artist at  Helene Galen Performing Arts Center, Rancho Mirage, Palm Springs. CA (USA).