L’ocell
Artist
Rosa Agenjo
Exhibition
Paisatges del silenci
Main features
- Title: L'ocell
- Technical: Acrylic Chaorcoal and acrylic on canva Sculpture
- Year: 2024
- Price: 600 €
Description of the work
The artwork L'ocell by the artist Rosa Agenjo
Dimensions: 50 x 12 x 20 cm
Technique:Hand-painted clay figure
Rosa Agenjo's pictorial universe is deeply rooted in nature and the agricultural landscape of the Lleida region. In this new exhibition at the Espai Cavallers Gallery, the artist presents a series of works that engage in dialogue with the cyclical rhythm of the earth, with the memory of the cultivated fields, and with the discreet beauty of the rural environment.
With a visual language that oscillates between abstraction and figurative suggestion, Agenjo constructs spaces of silence and contemplation that evoke the textures of crops, the changing tones of light, and the poetry of rural life. Her painting does not describe; it suggests. It does not illustrate; it sensitively interprets what remains on the margins, what is often only perceived if viewed with attentive and respectful eyes.
Each work is an intimate approach to a lived, not idealized, nature that is part of the artist's daily and emotional experience. The earth, the sky, the fruits, and the traces of human labor become pictorial material, but also symbols of a slower time, more connected to natural cycles and deep-rooted wisdom.
Agenjo invites us to look inward through the landscape, to rediscover, through art, the profound value of an environment that speaks—in a quiet voice—of identity, belonging, and resistance.
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Artist biography
Rosa Agenjo
The artist Rosa Agenjo participates in the individual exhibition paisatjes del silenci #mirarendins
With Catalan and Alsatian roots, Rosa Agenjo was born in the Gracia neighborhood of Barcelona in 1955, the daughter of a Cantabrian father and a mother with French roots.
Her first solo exhibition at Galería K in 1979 was well received by the public and received favorable reviews published in La Vanguardia. She also received her first critical review. In 1982, she exhibited at Galería Trece on Rambla Cataluña. A year later, the exhibition “Perra osar” at Dado al Siete placed her in the context of the Barcelona avant-garde of the 1980s. In 1984, “Bestia” arrived, promoted by the Generalitat de Catalunya, and later, different editions of the Salón de Otoño. However, it was with the 1985 exhibition at the Eude Gallery that she achieved the greatest media coverage and ended up sharing her art at Arco Madrid in 1986.
In the 1990s, she continued to exhibit in Barcelona (Arte Centro) and also in Sant Cugat (Canals) and Andorra (Ámbito). Other notable galleries where he has presented new work include: Espacio Cultural Pere Pruna (2003), Felisa Navarro de Vitoria (2004), Museo del Cántaro de Argentona (2004), Ayuntamiento de Carquefou (2007), Ayuntamiento de Mollet (2008), Punto de Arte in Girona (2008), Can Mayné in Alella (2009), Sala Parara in Barcelona (2014), Museo de la Estampación in Premià de Mar (2020), Noho House in Barcelona (2022) and, more recently, Sant Feliu de Guíxols Town Hall. In 2023, she will participate alongside Icre in a collective exhibition at the Clarà Library. A guest artist at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs (New York), Agenjo has established herself as an international artist in cities such as Copenhagen and Geneva.
Winner of a Honda Prize in 2000, she has combined her academic work with painting, ceramic muralism, and sculpture. Agenjo holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and has been a university professor at the UB since 1981, where she taught drawing and painting courses until her retirement in 2020.
Finally, the National Art Museum of Catalonia includes a large-format painting (1986) entitled –La vida es un diábolo (1986)– in the permanent exhibition room 81 bis. This large-format painting (195 x 160 cm) belongs to her abstract expressionist period and makes her one of the great exponents of rebellious, feminist art of the years following the Spanish Transition, according to the MNAC.
Thanks to Ediciones SD, her ceramic work will be published in a new catalog starting in September 2025.
For more information about the artist Rosa Agenjo, visit at Galeria Espai Cavallers