Adele still life flowers N1 Print

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. Due to his ease of contact and negotiation, he approached the business world, which would later help him to realize his personal project. Through his paintings, he reconnected with his Mediterranean roots. In 1989, "Adèle’s House" marked the starting point of a pictorial and narrative work. Adèle was 90 years old and could no longer maintain her home. Her house, then, took care of Adèle. Next, Michel Goday developed "Retable of the Memory", continuity of the work begun in 1989. Private collectors, especially in France and Spain, have acquired many of these works. In 2009, having earned his creative freedom, Michel Goday paid tribute to Kasimir Malevich, who was too little known to the general public. He created the storytelling "Remember Kasimir. Malevich is not dead, he lives in Barcelona". Through photographic montages and the dialogues of two imaginary characters, the web-fake-fiction recreated Malevich's work in the streets of today's Barcelona. The work was programmed by the Centre d'Art Contemporani Arts Santa Mónica of Barcelona. Its internet version, the "RememberKasimir" webpage, was visited over 100,000 times and broadcasted on Twitter by the main museums, such as Guggenheim, Pompidou, Stedelijk...