Born in 1931 in Barcelona, Joan Hernández Pijuan studied at La Llotja, the School of Arts and Crafts of Barcelona, as well as at the School of Fine Arts of Barcelona. Shortly after, he moved to Paris to continue his training at the city’s École de Beaux-Arts. His pictorial journey began with an expressionist style, very present in his first exhibitions at the beginning of the 1950s, something that would gradually become more structured over time. It was in the 1960s when his gestural style gave way to a more geometric and anatomical line, first from still life, and later, in the 1970s, from landscape.
He abandoned this geometric style to continue developing his work from informalism from the 1980s. And it was in his last stage, from the 1990s, that the outstanding element was color as well as density and the way of working the material on the canvas. For this reason, abstraction is present in a large part of his work, combining mathematical references with the intrinsic elements of painting, such as stripes of color, transparencies or textures.
Regarding his exhibition career, Pijuan has shown his work, both individually and collectively, around the world. Cities such as Paris, Zurich, Johannesburg, Geneva, Osaka, Madrid, Barcelona or New York stand out, among others. We can also find his works in more than sixty collections and museums. And, among other awards, in 1981 he received the National Prize for Plastic Arts of Spain and, in 1985, the Cross of Sant Jordi.
We dedicated an exhibition called ‘The measurement of time, the course of painting’ to the Suñol Foundation in 2010. It included multiple works by the author from the Suñol Soler Collection and others loaned by institutions.
List of artworks
Escala 1:100 , 1975
Ocre i xiprer núm. 4 , 1988
Escala 1:100 , 1975
Ocre i xiprer núm. 4 , 1988
1915 – 1995
Col·lecció Josep Suñol
Owing to the number of works in the collection, the first show included a selection of the most representative pieces dating from 1915 to...
The measurement of time, the course of painting
Joan Hernández Pijuan
The exhibition consists of more than thirty works done between the end of the sixties and...
5th Anniversary
Josep Suñol's Collection
A fresh insight into his collection that can help us understand the function of art in...
On paper
Josep Suñol Collection
Josep Suñol’s fascination with work on paper is strikingly captured by the fact that over thirty per cent of the pieces in his contemporary art collection are done on...
Nothing Stops
Josep Suñol and Centre d'Art La Panera Collections
Dialogue between the Suñol’s Collection and the collection built up by Lleida City Council over the course of the editions of the Leandre Cristòfol Art...
Portrait: 1971-1987
Fernando Vijande
We brought together 51 artists to talk about Fernando Vijande, the gallerist who supported the work of all those who exhibited at the Galería Vandrés and the Galería...
Literarture
Fall 2017
This fall we take up Literarture, an activity focused in the relationship between art and...
Open days
December 2017 and January 2018
Visit for free the current exhibition at the Fundació Suñol Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987 to say goodbye to 2017 and salute the new year...
Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987
José Luis Alexanco and Daniel Giralt-Miracle
José Luis Alexanco —artist and coorganizer of the exhibition— and Daniel Giralt-Miracle —art critic and historian— will lead a tour visit of Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987 on Monday, February...
Guided tours to Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987
The Fundació Suñol organizes some commented tours for individual audience through the exhibition Fernando Vijande. Portrait:...
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