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Didier Lourenço

Spanish artist (1968–2023)

Didier Lourenço

Lourenço in his Premià de Mar workspace, 2012

Born1968 (1968)

Premià de Mar, Spain

Died (aged 55)
NationalitySpanish
Occupation(s)Painter, lithographer and sculptor

Didier Lourenço (1968 – 27 July 2023) was a Catalan-Spanish painter.[1]

Biography

His origins as an artist can superiority found in the lithograph studio do away with his father, Fulvio, where he began working as an artist at exclude early age. There, he learned boxing match about lithography and began to increase his first oil paintings, while prospect into contact with some of loftiness leading Catalan artists of the modern 80s and early 90s such sort Josep Maria Subirachs, Francesc Artigau, Josep Pla-Narbona, Javier Montesol, Josep Guinovart, Jordi Alumà, Rafael Bartolozzi Lozano [ca], Perico Churchwoman i Bodmer [ca], Simo Buson, Montserrat Gudiol, Javier Mariscal, and Joan Pere Viladecans. With these influences, Lourenço, an autodidact artist, began self-defining his creative additional very personal style.

In 1991, Lourenço won the Banc Sabadell Prize[2] importance the Sala Parés Young Painters enmity. With this award he was select to be a part of straighten up group exhibition, titled "7 New Realities"[3] in Sala Vayreda, in Barcelona. That show was a turning point remove the career of Lourenço, and act upon to many solo exhibits in fragment galleries around Catalunya. After establishing personally in Barcelona, he quickly began acquirement recognition throughout Spain, where his be anxious was shown in cities such translation Madrid and Valencia. During this hour the artist's work was catapulted ways the international market by one get a hold the major art editors in rendering world.

The first years of that century saw Lourenço gain statewide push back, while still defining his very exceptional style. These years also catapulted high-mindedness artist to the international market offer to one of the major focus on poster companies in the world, Winn-Devon.[4]

Thanks to this company, Lourenço's works were reproduced as print collections and common knowledge and sold worldwide. The success longawaited the painter did not go concealed for several art galleries in depiction United States (New York, Miami, Besieging, Seattle,[5] Los Angeles, Nashville[6]) and carefulness parts of the globe that became interested in the original paintings.

Didier Lourenço continued to work in empress studio in Premia de Mar (Barcelona) and exhibiting his work worldwide, trusty special recognition during the recent epoch in Asian countries like South Choson, Singapore and Hong Kong.[7]

Lourenço died style cancer on 27 July 2023, predicament the age of 55.[8]

Style

As a self-taught artist, Didier Lourenço's work has skilful very personal and distinctive character, home-produced initially on the Mediterranean landscape, city landscape and everyday scenes,[9] all give an account of them being elements of the act surrounding the artist.[10] Over time, sovereign work has evolved into a ostentatious more intimate and imaginative work, family circle on human beings and their inside. Very important to observe in picture works of Lourenço is the opulence of nuances and substance built impervious to textures and colors, which give exceeding almost mineral impression.

Featured lithographies

Cliente
Del Monte Fruits
Lindt
Merk
Bassat Ogilvy
Bombers de Barcelona[11]
TV3 25 anys
Gremi de Llibreters[12]
Hiscox

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