José Galant

My name is José Galán, I was born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1977. I am a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes acrylic, oil and watercolour paintings, 3D computer graphics and augmented reality. I began painting canvases and graffiti in 1992, and I have been surrounded by artists, professors and paintings since that time. From 1993 to 1998, I attended the Fine Arts and Graphic Design School “Groc” in Barcelona as a painting and ceramics major. In 2006, I earned a DNAP, at the “École supérieure des Beaux Arts de Perpignan” (France) in Fine Arts. In 2007 I earned a master’s degree in 3D Computer Graphics at the Autodesk Training Center of Barcelona.

After working on my own projects for a couple of years, I co-created my first startup, Mars’ Toad, in 2009. The aim of this startup company was to develop different and funny games for iPhone and iPad like Captain Glyph, a fast paced action-puzzle-word game. The project that I am working on right now, called Imaginary destinations is a personal metaphor of the 3D virtual worlds, and was devised with the intention of experiencing in different scales, decontextualizing and recontextualizing real and/or unreal elements; to get into the world of the very small or outsize, modifyi...