Lluís-Carles Pericó

Barcelona, February 6, 1958.

Between 1980 and 1983, he studied fine arts in Barcelona, at the EINA university. He traveled to Italy, Greece, France, Morocco, and Menorca. 1983 - Scholarship from the Generalitat of Catalonia as a young artist. He participates in and is awarded various competitions, including the Joan Miró International Drawing Prize.

1987-1992, he lived in a village on the southern coast of Catalonia and traveled to Spain, England, and Wales. At the end of 1992, he settled in London where he lived until 1996, before returning to Barcelona. Since late 2009, he has been living near Paris and working in his studio in Versailles.

With an early interest in Mediterranean roots, featuring mainly abstract archaeological and architectural reminiscences, his work has evolved towards the representation of imaginary landscapes, often grounded in mental images from his personal memory, without any real model. Over the last 20 years, he has chosen the technique of oil on wood.

His works are included in the public collections of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (M.A.C.B.A.), the town hall of Montcada i Reixach, the EINA Foundation, and the College of Spain at the International University City, Paris XIV, as well as in numerous private collections in Europe and America, notably in Barcelona, Madrid, the Balearic Islands, Paris, Reims, Versailles, London, Nuremberg, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Mexico City, etc.