Carme Sanglas

Carme Sanglas was born in Barcelona in 1953. She has lived in Ordis, Alt Empordà, Catalonia, Spain for 40 years, but now she lives in Barcelona.The artists work consists of paintings on paper, wood or lead, using the technique of overlaying matte textures with some parts in gold leaf. Gold that has the quality of light incorporated into the picture and at the same time, has its own symbolic value.Her compositions uses figurative subjects, including figures and objects that, taken out of their normal context or appearance, take on a new form. It is possible to read a descriptive meaning into them in various ways. The images describe themselves or have a certain coherent internal syntax, which is luminous and spatial. At the same time they exist in a strange light that isnt quite real. The colors are equidistant between light and darkness, its not possible to tell whether its dusk or dawn, at times very murky, and at others clearer, but always in stark contrast to the brilliance of the gold. Sometimes the object represented takes on and appears as a distinctive form, or it acquires volume, such as the sheets of lead worked in relief.Not infrequently, fire is represented (being a process of transformation) and also paths (that imply ...

1971-1978: studied History of Art at Barcelona University.
1973-1976: studied at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts, Barcelona (unfinished).

Collections: Col.lecció d'art contemporani Fundació "La Caixa". Barcelona. - Col.lecció Testimoni. "La Caixa". Barcelona. - Fundació Espais. Girona. - Col.lecció Salvador Riera. Museu dArt Contemporani. Barcelona. - Museu de l'Empordà. Figueres. - Museu d'Història de la Ciutat. Girona. - Col.lecció Banc Sabadell. - Museu del Cinema. Girona.- Fundació Vila Casas. Torroella de Montgrí

August 2011, solo exhibition at the Monastery of Vilabertran, within the music festival XIX Schubertíada

November, solo exhibition at the Museu de la Mediterrània, Torroella de Montgrí, Baix Empordà, Catalonia, Spain.

Spring 2012, selected for the GOLD exhibition in Vienna, Austria.,