APRIL SESSION 2013 VALLS GERARD

VALLS GERARD  - Multidisciplinary Artist –

BIO

Gerard Valls - Reus – Catalonia- (Spain) 1975, he began his creative career at  age 10, learning the basic techniques of the artistic drawing in the studio of the Catalan artist Pere Calderó, where he subsequently became interested in drawing objects, design drawing and then by jewellery.

Aged 15, he entered at the Art school of Tarragona and started in the speciality of Artistic jewellery. He completed his studies in various schools in Barcelona and in the “Col.legi  de joiers de Catalunya”, where he learned gemmology, engraving on crimped and noble metals for precious stones.

After the learning period, he opened his own workshop, where he created his first collections of Vanguard jewels for galleries in Barcelona and Madrid.

After several years dedicated to jewellery, their creative concerns led him to investigate other artistic fields like painting, little size sculpture, installation and performance. Currently, his creative production is based on the multidisciplinary.

So far, he has made more than 200 artistic actions and he exhibited his works, among other cities, in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Malaga, Sevilla, Bilbao, Lyon (Fr.), Cannes (Fr.), Paris (Fr.), Trani (It.), Catania (It.) and Miami-Beach (USA).

In 2009, exposes in “Satellite Art Exhibition”, in Miami-Beach (USA) , sharing space with works of Andy Warhol, Salvador Dalí and Diego Rivera.

Invited to participate in the first International exhibition “Dolmen de Dalí”, tribute to Salvador Dalí, in the museum of the “Real casa de la moneda de Madrid” ( Madrid, 2009).

He exhibits at the invitation of the “Fondazione Giuseppe de Nittis”, in the artistic event “Culture a Confronto”, in the “Castello di Trani” (Italy, 2009).

Selected by the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts of Paris to participate in the International exhibition of Fine Arts at the “Salle Le Nôtre” of the “Carrousel do Louvre” in Paris, as part of the Spanish artists delegation in 2009, in individual representation in 2010 and been part of the Catalonia delegation in 2011.

Selected for the artistic event “Stop allo 048 degli oggetti” in Catania (Sicily, It.) 2012

He has been finalist and winner of several awards from design, jewellery and contemporary art.

Winner of the National jewellery prize AN GEM AWARDS 2008 (Madrid). 

STATEMENT

My work is born from the observation of everything that surrounds me, mainly, people and their attitudes, depending on the place or context in which are.

I try to reflect the dark and perverse side all hide inside ourselves, and in this way bring to light the “Alter ego” of a society that appears to be “ Politically correct” and that it is not reality.

I express my self through the creative multidisciplinary, ranging from painting to small format sculpture, going through the art installation, design and performance, using as a register a fusion of social criticism, sarcasm, irony, provocation and sex.