Michel Goday

Michel Goday is a self-taught artist, born in 1949 in Port-Vendres, Catalonia, South of France. In his early years, after visiting an exhibition of Mark Rothko in Paris, he was influenced by the American abstract expressionism of Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman, among others. A few years later, he incorporated Kasimir Malévich. In recognition of them all, he painted their posthumous portraits under the generic title of "The Influencers", comprising a total of 22 remarkable artists. Very soon, with his torn papers, large paper realizations on glass that drew through the light, playing with intensity and diffusion (what Michel Goday calls "two-dimensional sculptures"), he received the praise of François Mattey, then director of the Museum of Decorative Arts of Paris, and Pierre Gaudibert, founder of the ARC in Paris, who exclaimed: "We have just met the first gestural minimalist in the history of art". Meanwhile, Michel Goday traveled to Berlin, London, Milan, New York... visited countless museums and galleries, saw thousands of very important works and others not so important, and decided to commit to painting. To do so, he distanced himself from the art market in order to devote himself entirely to his art with the greatest freedom...

Michel Goday is a self-taught artist

studied sociology at university
shared his life between art and business
gave communication courses at the university in master's degree

Galerie Dauriac Castanet-Tolosan “Bouquets d’Adèle sous le regard des influenceurs”
Galerie Pavillon des arts Port-Vendres “le balcon d’Adèle”
Fondation Antonio Machado Collioure
Centre d’art les Hospices à Canet en Roussillon. “Le jardin d’Adèle”
Galerie du Fort, Montauban “Le jardin d’Adèle”
Chateau Royal, Collioure. “La Madeloc 360° Carnets de notes”
Chateau Royal Collioure. “Les influenceurs : Regards posthumes”
Centre d’Art Contemporain Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona
“Remember Kasimir, Malévich n’est pas mort, il vit a Barcelona”
Musée Cloître Royal Monastère, Sant Cugat del Vallès. “Rétables de mémoire”
Galerie Loft Nota Bene, Cadaquès
Galerie Franklin Furnace, New-York
A.R.E.A., Castres
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angoulême, Street installation
Fondation Joan Miró, Barcelone. “Installation papiers déchirés sur verrières”
Galerie Anne Marie de Kruijff, Paris (aide à la première création 1980)
Ville de Perpignan, Rue Mailly. “Pas pintura (street action painting)”
Galerie Art Enllà Barcelone
Couvertures de l’édition Gausac, Sant Cugat del Vallès
Biennale d’art contemporain en Catalogne
Galerie Josep Canals, Sant Cugat del Vallès
Galerie Denise Levy Paris et Sio Galerie, Barcelona
Galerie Arlette Gimaray, Paris
Galerie des Tanneurs, Tou...