Gonzalo
CENTELLES
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.
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.
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..
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 Crypto Center, 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
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
2024 Dextforce Fest. La Llotja de Mar, 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).
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).
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