Aballí was born in 1958 in Barcelona, the same city where he graduated in Fine Arts (Universitat de Barcelona) in 1981. In his beginnings, his work is painterly, but he soon shifts to the literality of the painting as a physical object. The diversity of formalizations, techniques, and materials used in his work highlights him and classifies him in the conceptual practices of contemporary Catalan art. Above all, he focuses on the relationship established between the limits of art and daily life. In his work he deals with concepts such as absence, non-intervention, and space, frequently treated through opposite concepts, incorporating vacuum as an active agent in the process of conceptualizing and exhibiting works.
He has done a lot of different exhibitions around the world since the early 90s, alternating his presence in galleries and national and international public institutions. MACBA, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Biennial of Venezia, or Galerie Meessen-de Clercq are some of the spaces where he has exhibited his art.
List of artworks
Rètol (museum) , 2006
Sense títol , 2013
Classificats (rosa) , 2008
Rètol (museum) , 2006
Sense títol , 2013
Classificats (rosa) , 2008
Press articles
Signs and Writing
Josep Suñol Collection
Collective exhibition which hosts around fifty works, all of them part of collection funds and carried out between 1972 and...
Dialogues of the Gaze
A selection of works from the Col·lecció Josep Suñol with the aim of reflecting on the importance of the...
Everything Solid Fades Away
In Three Acts
The second act, titled Everything Solid Fades Away, is a journey through a group of works that allow us to understand the extent to which the abstract pulsation did...
5th Anniversary
Josep Suñol's Collection
A fresh insight into his collection that can help us understand the function of art in...
On the outside looking in
The aim of the project is to raise awareness of the need for prevention and to reflect on the feelings of people living with...
Documents and Memory
Act 24: Josep Suñol Collection's archive
Get a better understanding of the reality of culture in the private sphere but with a public...
Playing Art. Education, Art and Design
2019
Fundación Juan March,...
Itineraries
Dialogues of the Gaze
EL QUE SAPS / EL QUE SENTS / EL QUE PERCEPS: tres itineraris de l'exposició Diàlegs de la...
La Nit dels Museus 2016
Free entry on May 21st of 2016, from 7pm to...
Guided tour to Everything Solid Fades Away
(Catalan)
Fundació Suñol organizes a visit in Catalan to the exhibtion Everything Solid Fades Away conducted by the fundation’s...
Les Escales
In 1976 Josep Suñol moved his residence to Les Escales, an address specially designed to house his growing collection of works of...
Dialogue
Helena Tatay and Valentín Roma
Helena Tatay and Valentín Roma offer us a guided tour of the exhibition Act 24: Documents and Memory. Josep Suñol Collection's...
Act 24: Documents and Memory. Josep Suñol Collection's Archive
Glòria Picazo and Jordi Colomer
Gloria Picazo and Jordi Colomer offer us a guided tour of the exhibition Act 24: Documents and Memory. Josep Suñol Collection's...
To serve the invisible
Afternoon of poetic recitation by Maria Sevilla, Laia Carbonell, Joana Brabo, Josep Pedrals, Martí Sales and Mireia Calafell, around the exhibition Everything solid fades...
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