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..

 

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

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).