Ramon Enrich

Ramon Enrich (Igualada, 1968) is a Catalan painter and sculptor. His artistic vocation was influenced by his father, Ramon Enrich, a knitwear manufacturer who taught himself drawing, music and architecture.

Contents

• Ramon enrich painting artistics com
• Ramon enrich 2002 avi
• Works
• Public and private collections
• Further projects
• References

He studied Fine Arts in Barcelona, and also History (unfinished) and Graphic Arts. Late 80s, he obtained some scholarships to paint and exhibit abroad. He spent long periods in Mousonturn cultural centre in Frankfurt, and in Berlin. Great admirer of Donald Judd, he moved to the United States in 1988 and he settled down in Marfa, where Judd lived. In the Chinati Foundation and in the Judd Foundation, he exposed works he developed there. Later, he travelled to Los Angeles, where he met Ed Ruscha and worked with David Hockney. Then he settled down in New York City, where he worked as an assistant in Julian Schnabel’s studio.

He has exhibited many times in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, New York, Brussels and Paris. Nowadays, he lives and works in Igualada.

Works

There are some recurrent issues in his paintings concerning the relationship between architecture and landscape. He paints large empty scenarios formed by architectural and vegetal elements, being specially interested in the simplification and essential representation of things.

They are big canvas with unanimated and mysterious choreographies coming from a reality sieved by geometrics and metaphysics. He plays with a symbolical alphabet of elements: great typographies, the cypress, manufacturing warehouses, deposits, ponds, ramps, baroque gardens. They are timeless, close to surrealism and, with an ironic treatment of landscape coming from romantic tradition.

Blaude

Cartell-zaragossa-collage

1993: Marburg Museum, Marburg (Germany)

1994: Mousonturm, Frankfurt

1994: Galeria Trece, Ventalló (Catalonia, Spain)

1994: Museu für Moderne Kunst, Mittelhof (Germany)

1999: Rare Art Properties, New York

1999: Pfund Galerie, Berlin

2001: Martin Gallery, Hong Kong

2001: Àmbit Galeria d’Art, Barcelona

2002: Galeria Ignacio de Lassaleta, Barcelona

2002: Galeria Spectrum, Saragossa

2003: Galeria Arcturus, Paris

2003: Nord LB Bank, Hamburg

2005: Maison Kregg, Brussels

2005: Galeria Il Polittico, Rome

2005: Sala Parés, Barcelona

2006: Hof&Huyser, Amsterdam

2006: Art International, Zurich

2008: Museu de Llavaneres (Catalonia, Spain)

2009: Galeria María José Castellví, Barcelona

Public and private collections

Col•lecció La Caixa, Barcelona

Colección Banco Santander, Madrid

Fundació Vila Casas, Barcelona

Collection Boudouin, Brussels

Círculo Ecuestre, Barcelona

Collection Blachère, Apt (France)

Barcelona City Council

Fundación Coca Cola, Madrid

Tanaka Foundation, Tokyo

Colección NH, Madrid

Collection Ducasse, Paris

Donald Judd Collection, Marfa (United States)

David Hockney Private Collection, Los Angeles

Fundación Telefónica, Madrid

Carmen and Lluís Bassat Private Collection, Barcelona

Museu de l’Aigua, Barcelona

Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid

Deustche Bank Collection, Frankfurt

Norman Foster Private Collection, London

Eric Spiekerman, Berlin

Colección Arisa, Madrid

Collection Eneco, Rotterdam

Further projects

First award in illustration. Book of Maison Léopold, Versailles (France)

Illustrations for Tres Nadals & Tres Navidades by Quim Monzó (Quaderns Crema)

Illustration for the cover of Catalan Writing (Pen Club Català)

Illustrations for Ferran Adrià, El Bulli, by Óscar Caballero (Agnès Vienot)

Works together with the designer David Carson (Quatrat 9, Espai Gràfic)

Folder with engraving for a project by studio b-720 and David Chipperfield

Drawings for the project of Ciutat Metropolitana, by Jean Nouvel

Covers for the diary of Bibliothèques de Barcelona (libraries of Barcelona)

Sculpture for Sparkasse, Frankfurt

Public sculpture, Igualada.

Ramon Enrich has been mentioned by:

David Hockney, Quim Monzó, Lluís Pasqual, Narcís Comadira, Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, Enric Miralles, Lluís Bassat, Daniel Giralt Miracle, Luis Eduardo Aute, Anton Maria Espadaler.