MARC BADIA
Barcelona, 1984
badiaquintana@gmail.com
@marc_badia_quintana
Marc Badia (1984). Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and with a MFA in it. Exchange student at Hochschule for bildende Künste Hamburg. He has exhibited at La Capella, Espositivo Mad, Arranz Bravo Foundation, Fran Reus Gallery or Casabanchel in Spain. Internationally he has exhibited in Electrohaus (Hamburg), the National Art Center of Tokyo, Georgia and England among others. He has done residencies at the Free University of Tibilisi (Georgia), Major 28 (Lleida), or at the Kaaij festival, Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Currently he lives and works in Barcelona.
“Monument to nothing” is a selection of the work I did during the first lockdown imposed by COVID-19. It is a series of works on paper in which a character with a prominent nose, a cap and sports shoes appears, who seems to be in a state of isolation. I wanted to present a subject in the form of an impenetrable cartoon, of whom we would not know if it is someone lacking criteria or on the contrary a deep and complex character, an attempt to parody the contemporary subject adrift.
‘Monument to Nothing’
Marc Badia
Edited by Guim Tió
Designed by Raimon Guirado
44 pages
190x275mm
Limited edition of 100 copies
January 2021
These drawings were done in Barcelona during the quarantine period of 2020 due to the Covid 19 global pandemic.
‘Quarantine’
Guim Tió
Edited by Guim Tió
Designed by Raimon Guirado
7 art prints
210x280mm
Limited edition of 200 copies
July 2020
ÀLEX MONNER
Barcelona, 1995
@alecs995
He considers the camera as a natural prolongation of his personal artistic need. For him, photography is a hobby that mixes up enjoyable type of experiences: the instant relation with the things you decide to focus with , the braveness of being able to manipulate that reality in order to create a new image that wasn’t there before and the inner pleasure of making compositions, are three of those multiple things that made him a picture explorer.
This is a visual travelling diary, a wasting time method, a way to show how I compose with shapes and colors while I walk thinking in general aspects of life or just feeling elevated through nothingness. Being romantic and naughty, clever and silly, sometimes capturing the soul of things, sometimes leaving my own soul in what I guess I saw. That’s this object, personal visual decisions gathered on folded paper.
‘Nada nuevo bajo el Sol’
Àlex Monner
Edited by Guim Tió
Designed by Raimon Guirado
Essay by Àlex Monner
Soft Cover
80pp
460x170mm
Limited edition of 150 copies
May 2020
ARNAU ROVIRA
Barcelona, 1984
@arnauroviravidal
arnaurovira.com
He was born in Barcelona in 1984. Firstly he studied as director of photography in ESCAC until 2009 and he started to work in cinema and video. In 2015 he moved to Madrid, where he began to study photography in EFTI and LENS. He had been exhibit in some festivals like Revela’t, Mirades or Pa-ta-ta. His pictures appeared in magazines like El País Semanal, XL Semanal, Ignant, GUP, Wired or the British Journal of Photography. In 2018 He was selected to Encontros da artistas novos recidency. Nowadays He combines personal projects with assignments related with architecture and design.
‘A Trilogy of Unsual Architectures’ is a photobook with three minibooks inside that resumes three Arnau Rovira’s projects based in Architecture. He reflects with images how architecture can be a neoliberal tool to force humans into submission. If every building has a funcionality and purpose, Rovira’s three architectures go through a cloud of false happiness in which reason is suspended.
‘A Trilogy of Unusual Architectures’
Arnau Rovira
Edited by Guim Tió
Designed by Raimon Guirado
Texts by Núria Nia
Poster–Cover
3 Publications of 24pp each
115x240mm
Limited edition of 150 copies
May 2020
‘Stars & Fireflies’
Guim Tió
Edited by Guim Tió
Designed by Raimon Guirado
Essay by Lionel Shriver
Hard Cover
96pp
200x285mm
Limited edition of 500 copies
December 2019
Álex Marco
Valencia, 1986
@alexmarco.dmg
Álex Marco (Valencia, 1986) is a visual artist focused on painting and video as his main communication media. Actually works at his studio in Valencia where his work emphasizes the visual idea of the city: traces, stains, and dirt represents how human actions provokes an excuse to promote pictorial language as a means of representation.
Taking the city and its infinite living options as my reference, my work presents a visual analysis of the image, the interferences, the effects and signs which construct the urban context; all of this via practical and experimental research in paint and video formats. We have daily contact with paint, as a result of the actions we produce in our dialogue with the city: brands, marks, gestures, scratches, imperfections, stains and residues, portray the characteristics of our identity as inhabitants. Accordingly, my approach brings together different aspects of our ability to review, create, communicate and transform any daily activity into a resource for the content or subject matter of paintings, videos and installations. I am especially interested in how canvas and camera explore manipulative possibilities and the consequences which are derived from the mechanisms of our perception. The main feature of my research is the experience of this relationship: conscience and the point of contact between processes – all at once immediate and distant, real and fictitious - , between thought and vision. My starting point is an open structure which reflects the nature of that which is born in the studio, enhancing what is left behind for the spectator to complete. Likewise, I understand that the image establishes a visual statement irrespective of time and space to produce something new, consequently the possibilities in the scope of work expand greatly.
‘Following the right trace
it’s always a difficult decision’
Álex Marco
Edited by Guim Tió
Designed by Raimon Guirado
Essay by Antonio González
Soft Cover
64pp
230x310mm
Limited edition of 150 copies
February 2020
REGINA GIMÉNEZ
Barcelona, 1966
@ginagimenez
Regina Giménez is a Spanish artist based in Barcelona, graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has exhibited in galleries and museums of modern and contemporary arts. Her solo exhibitions include, El Sol i la Taula, 2018 – MAC Mataró, Adoptar otra naturaleza, 2017 – Anamasprojects gallery Barcelona, Arquitecture d’Aujourdhui, 2015 – The green Parrot gallery, Barcelona and Símbols convencionals, 2014 – Gallerie Pierre Hallet, Bruxelles. She has also participated in group exhibitions at Fundació Miro, and Contemporary Art Museum Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, MUSAC, Leon. Her work is featured in many collections: MUSAC, Leon, Lawrence Benenson, Atlanta and Coprime Fondation, Paris.
‘El Sol i la Taula’
Regina Giménez
Edited by Guim Tió
Designed by Raimon Guirado
Soft Cover with folded flaps
Bidirectional publication
60pp
200x285mm
Limited edition of 200 copies
December 2019
AIDAN KOCH
Seattle (USA), 1988
aidanalexiskoch@mailbox.org
www.aidankoch.com
@aidanalexiskoch
Aidan Koch is an artist living and working in the Mojave Desert in California. She has published multiple graphic novels including The WHALE (2010), Xeric Award winning The Blonde Woman (2012), Impressions (2014), and After Nothing Comes (2016). Published stories have been included in The Paris Review and Best American Comics. Her work has been exhibited in a variety of settings including The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY and Centro Colombo Americano in Bogota, Colombia. She is acting director of the Institute For Interspecies Art and Relations.
‘The psychic said ‘Blossoming’’
Aidan Koch
Edited by Guim Tió
Designed by Raimon Guirado
Soft Cover
28pp
190x265mm
Limited edition of 100 copies
September 2019
LLUÍS TUDELA
Torroella de Montgrí, 1988
lluistudela88@gmail.com
www.lluistudela.tumblr.com
@lluistudela
Lluís Tudela (Torroella de Montgrí, 1988) has recently participated in the Catalonia in Venice exhibition project: To loose your head at the Art Biennale of Venice 2019, in collaboration with the artist Marcel Borràs. In 2015 he made his first solo show, Baix Ter exhibited in Valdívia, Chile, and his photographs has been part of international collective exhibitions in London, Washington, Paris or Rome. His work is published in photography media such as Paper Journal, Der Greif, Ignant or Booooooom and in Exit, Balam or Melancolía magazines. In 2018 he published Mal de Tierra photobook with Clandestine Books. He worked on assignments for media such as Pitchfork, Nido Magazine, Ginza Magazine, Traveler or Bloomberg and last year he did the photo campaign for Miquel Barceló’s Aurea dicta project by La Casa dels Clàssics.
‘Cap de fibló’ gathers a series of photographs by Lluís Tudela in his exhibition at Mecànic (13.9.19–08.01.20). The project is a visual exploration about desire through the camera. In addition, the catalogue contains an essay by Pol Roig, who proposes a poetic reading of the story.
‘Cap de fibló’
Lluís Tudela
Edited by Guim Tió
Designed by Raimon Guirado
Soft Cover
44pp
230x310mm
Limited edition of 100 copies
September 2019
ORIOL ARIBAU
Barcelona, 1984
oriolaribau@gmail.com
www.oriolaribau.com
@oriolaribau
He attended Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona (2009), and later he finished the Master of Artistic Creation at the same University with the highest honors (2010). A new phase began in Limoges, where he worked, research studied and developed around the porcelain. During the year 2013, this research makes him travel to Jingdezhen, China, where surrounded by ceramics and craftsmen he worked on the application of ceramics and porcelain in the Chinese urban landscapes. He is currently working to apply all this knowledge in the architecture and urban planning that surrounds him.
The Shadow Series is the materialization of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki's thought from his book ‘In Praise of Shadows’. As it is described in the book, in the West light has always represented beauty, but in traditional Japanese aesthetics it is the shadow that keeps an enigma as attractive and powerful as the light of the West.
‘Shadow Series’
Oriol Aribau
Edited by Guim Tió
Designed by Raimon Guirado
Soft Cover
44pp
190x270mm
Limited edition of 50 copies
May 2019
PERE LLOBERA
Barcelona, 1970
@perellobera
Pere works and lives in Barcelona. He was a resident of Rijksakademie (Amsterdam) in 2006 and 2007. His solo shows include Viafarini Kunsthalle (Milano); Tongerlohuys museum (Roosendal), or ‘Unter dem Pantoffel stehen (Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam). He has shown in group shows at Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), CaixaForum (Barcelona), KolnShow2 (Colonia), Kranenburg Museum (Bergen), the biennial of Thessaloniki or Platform for Visual arts (Tilburg), among others. Most of his most relevant installation have been at alternative spaces Palacio ¿Real? / Vera Icon / Todo Hiper.
‘Acció’ gathers the work of Pere Llobera in his exhibition at Bombon Projects (26.9–10.11.18). It contains an essay of Aldo Urbano who analizes and depicts Pere's work.
‘Acció’
Pere Llobera
Edited by Guim Tió
Designed by Raimon Guirado
Soft Cover
36pp
230x310mm
First edition of 100 copies
October 2018