Pere Noguera

FE2O3 - fragment, 1983

La Bisbal de l'Empordà (Girona), 1941

Spanish sculptor and ceramist who was influential in the 1970s. Born in La Bisbal de l’Empordà, a town with a long tradition in the field of popular and industrial ceramics, he studied at the Massana School in Barcelona. In the 1970s he began his artistic career incorporating domestic objects and elements of the landscape with an aesthetic approach, which brought him closer to Arte Povera. In the same decade, he became a pioneer in saving his works in photocopies and thus spreading the idea of ​​archives as ready-mades, based on found photographs and films.

His works show us a dialogue between the artist and the artisan, they are a journey towards the essence of things through an experimental process. He stands out for reinventing the expressive possibilities of clay by giving it new properties of a metaphorical nature. In relation to this material he created the term “enfangada”, an artistic process that consists of covering a set of objects or a surface with clay and then observing its drying process. His artistic practice is undoubtedly based on process, deconstruction and fragmentation.

The Suñol Soler Collection preserves two of his works: an installation Fe203 (1983), and an untitled painting from the same year.

List of artworks

Fe2O3 , 1983

Sense títol , 1983

Fe2O3 , 1983

Sense títol , 1983