{"id":9973,"date":"2019-10-17T17:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T16:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/?p=9973"},"modified":"2019-10-17T17:52:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T16:52:31","slug":"art-gallery-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/2019\/10\/17\/art-gallery-in-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"40 years of an art gallery in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dalmau is still on its original place, at number 349, close to Passeig de Gracia. Over the years, our gallery<\/a> has been witness of the changes of the city, how the commerce focused in the citizens of Barcelona have slowly disappeared. The shoe shop Oliver, the Grocery Sim\u00f3n, bars such as Como, the record store Gong, the boutique Bebelin or the barber Mendiald\u00faa have all closed. There is nothing left from that.<\/p>\n

In Consell de Cent between Passeig de Gracia and Rambla Catalunya we are already the oldest: this October we celebrate our 40th<\/sup> anniversary. During these years, Cartier jewelry or the Antonio Mir\u00f3 fashion store have been our neighbors. Now, the Mandarin Hotel, Sandro or Khiel\u2019s are some of the shops that have replaced the classic ones from the city.<\/p>\n

Luckily, Consell de Cent is still an interesting place to visit art galleries in Barcelona. Classics such as Mayoral, Gothsland or Eude are still in their original locations, and younger galleries such as Jordi Barnadas have helped to keep it as one of the main streets for art in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

This season marks forty years since the opening of our gallery. In October of 1979 Francesc Draper opened Sala Dalmau as homage to Josep Dalmau<\/a>, the art dealer of the avant-gardes in the Barcelona of the beginning of the 20th<\/sup> Century.<\/p>\n

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Sala Dalmau’s facade, 1979<\/p>\n

The first exhibition was already a declaration of intentions: a solo show of Hernando Vi\u00f1es<\/a>, nephew of the renowned composer and pianist Ricard Vi\u00f1es, and one of the main exponents of school of Paris. This exhibition, focused in works from the 1920s,30s and 40s, will be one of the main lines of work of the gallery, the avant-gardes of the first decades of the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

From the beginning, the philosophy of the gallery was to combine exhibition of artistes exiled during the civil war and linked to the avant-gardes with young contemporary whose work used that influence and took it to their own ground. To the, younger by then, Juan Alcalde<\/a> or Josep Maria Garc\u00eda-Llort<\/a>, we added Jordi Amagat<\/a>, Jorge Gay<\/a>, V\u00edctor Pedra<\/a> or Miguel Pe\u00f1a<\/a> and, later on, Manolo Belzunce<\/a>, Javier Lapuente<\/a>, Jos\u00e9 Leguey<\/a>, Miguel Villarino<\/a> or Jos\u00e9 Luis Zumeta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The memory of Josep Dalmau has always been present in our gallery. We recovered his legacy in the exhibition \u201cJosep Dalmau I el seu m\u00f3n\u201d (Josep Dalmau and his world), that allowed us to show his work as the dealer of the avant-gardes and also with exhibitions of artists that have worked with him back in the day such as Jacint Salvad\u00f3<\/a>, Rafael Barradas or, specially, Joaqui\u00edn Torres-Garc\u00eda.<\/a><\/p>\n

The interest in Torres-Garc\u00eda has taken our gallery to make a deep study on his work and legacy. Besides his work, we have presented in several exhibitions the work of some of his disciples in his workshop<\/a> in Montevideo. Artists such as Augusto Torres<\/a> or Jos\u00e9 Gurvich<\/a> are part of the history of Sala Dalmau, as well as, very especially, Alceu Ribeiro<\/a>. Ribeiro, one of the first students of Torres, joined the group of artists of the gallery in 1997. Until his death in 2013, we have the pleasure of knowing his work and his legacy first-hand.<\/p>\n

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Francesc Draper, Alceu Ribeiro and Mariana Draper, Sala Dalmau, 1997.<\/p>\n

Recovering artists who have left Catalonia and Spain has always been one of the priorities of the gallery: the Barcelonians J.F\u00edn<\/a> and Javier Vilat\u00f3<\/a> had been overlooked when they deserved a greater recognition. A key figure has been Manuel Angeles Ortiz,<\/a> Andalusian, close friend of Lorca and Picasso, whose work we have shown on several occasions.<\/p>\n

Francesc Draper left us in 1999, when we presented the first solo show of Javier Vilat\u00f3 in his hometown after 35 years. \u00a0After his death, the gallery has keep forward with the same philosophy, with relevant exhibitions such as\u00a0 the ones dedicated to Le Corbusier<\/a> or Eugenio Granell<\/a> or, last season, the first solo show in an art gallery in Barcelona of Jos\u00e9 Luis Zumeta, one of the renovators of the Basque painting of the second half of the 20th<\/sup> Century.<\/p>\n

We would like to thank all the artists, institutions, galleries, art critics and collectors with whom we have collaborated these years, but also, and very especially, the public of our city who has visited our exhibitions and has valued our work.<\/p>\n

\u00a1We hope the gallery can carry on for a long time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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