Josep Pozo

I am Josep Pozo, born in Olot in 1971,
One of the characters that attracts me the most are the Geishas, those artists that for me have no defined identity, their identity is hidden behind a make-up. That is what I try to transmit in my works, because for me they are a mystical and magical character. My restlessness made me evolve the characters painted in the urban series, looking for the protagonism of the figure as the main theme in my works. That's where the geisha, the clown, the puppets, the musicians came up, simply because of an impulse, a thought at that moment. In what these characters transmit to me, I think they have aspects and qualifiers in common.
From this elegant woman, I am inspired by the feminine figure, her gestures and I am passionate about her attire with an infinity of colours and the contrast with her pale make-up.
In my works I use a mixed technique, as I work with different materials on a base of fabric or wood mainly, since being a rigid base helps me to be able to make collages with different materials and use products for its fixation.
One of the characteristics of this technique is the use of recycled materials collaborating with the sustainability of the environment.
I use discarded materials to make...

ARTISTIC KNOWLEDGE:
Three years of artistic drawing.
Three years of natural model.
Three years of angular perspective with a diploma from the School of Fine Arts of Sant Joan les Fonts, qualified by a court of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Five years of natural painting.
Self-taught with the color palette.

Josep Pozo is a visual artist whose work is characterized by the exploration of the human figure, emotion, and memory through a personal artistic language that combines painting, collage, and material experimentation. His work moves between contemporary figuration and expressive abstraction, creating compositions that invite the viewer into an intimate and emotional reading.Throughout his career, he has developed various thematic series in which he investigates identity, culture, and human relationships. Among them, his Geisha series stands out—an artistic proposal that transcends the traditional representation of this figure to turn it into a symbol of elegance, introspection, and transformation. Through the use of textures, layering, and a careful chromatic construction, his works generate spaces for contemplation where tradition and modernity converge.His creative process is grounded in the constant search for new visual and narrative resources. The combination of mixed media, graphic elements, and gestural techniques endows his pieces with great visual richness and a distinctive aesthetic personality. Each work is conceived as an open experience that allows for multiple interpretations and fosters a dialogue between the piece a...