Josep Grau-Garriga
b. 1929 — d. 2011
The Estate of Josep Grau-Garriga
Fabrics are linked to human life at every stage through its existence, one of the biggest discoveries of our species, it covers and protects and identifies us. It was taken up by the arts of course, and I think that the possibilities of textile are still unexplored. — Josep Grau-Garriga
Artwork
Exhibitions
Estate of Josep Grau-Garriga
Estate of Josep Grau-Garriga
Art Basel Miami Beach 2019
MIDTOWN
Biography
"Justice or Injustice," 1972
Born in 1929 in Saint Cugat-del Valles near Barcelona, he moved to Anjou, France, in 1991 where he remained until his death until 2011.
Josep Grau-Garriga’s solo exhibitions include Salon 94, New York, 2020 and 2017, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (France), 2016; Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid (Spain), 2015; the Angers Museum of Fine Arts (France), 2010; MHS - the Sabadell History Museum, Sabadell (Spain), 1990; the Jean-Lurçat Museum, Angers (France), 1989; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (Mexico), 1987; Arras Gallery, New York (USA), 1983; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974; the Birmingham Museum of Fine Arts, 1971; the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 1970. His work has also been featured in the following recent group exhibitions: Tapisseries Nomades. Fondation Toms Pauli. Collection XXe siècle, Musée cantonal des Beaux - Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne (Switzerland), 2016; Creative Crossroads: The Art of Tapestry, Denver Art Museum, Denver, 2015; Decorum. Tapis et tapisseries d’artistes, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (France), 2013; Hay más rutas que la nuestra. Las colecciones de Tamayo Después de la Modernidad, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (Mexico), 2013. A major installation of his work was part of the Sydney Biennale in 2020.
Josep Grau-Garriga’s work is part of important permanent museum and institutional collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Houston Fine Arts Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Oklahoma Art Center, Fondation Toms Pauli, Lausanne (Switzerland), FRAC Lorraine, Metz (France), MACBA - Museu d’Art Contemporain de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla (Spain), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (France), Musée des Beaux Arts, Angers (France), and Museu Rufino Tamayo, Mexico DF (Mexico).
In March 2019, The Center Grau-Garriga d’Art Tèxtil Contemporani, the first contemporary art center dedicated to textile art in Spain, opened in his hometown of Sant Cugat del Vallés (Barcelona).
Press
Surface Magazine
ARTFORUM
Artforum
La Vanguardia
The New York Times