JOSEP MARIA ROSSELLO PINTOR

JOSEP MARIA ROSSELLÓ  VIRGILI:
Josep Maria Rosselló was born in Tarragona in 1950. He studied at the Tarragona School of Art, at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts, and at the Massana School in Barcelona. His main teachers were the painter Magda Folch and the painter Guillermo Bergnes.
Since 1967, when he held his first exhibition in Tarragona, he began a series of trips and exhibitions through the most important art cities in the world, such as Barcelona, ​​​​Sitges, Madrid, Rome, The Hague, Paris, New York, Geneva or Tangier, becoming one of the most prominent artists of contemporary art.
His work is pure poetry and mysticism, within a personal and very characteristic expressionist figuration that is very dreamlike and in which he wants to capture the unrevealed secrets of life.
Through his enigmatic and mysterious characters and landscapes, which he resolves with a range of blue colors like his Mediterranean, and reds, as well as some pinks that give them a ghostly look, he wants to take the viewer to the starting point of his particular magic. staff.
Roselló's painting undoubtedly captures the attention of viewers, who will receive more complex perceptions than they may seem at first glance.
Tarragona and Sitges are the two cities most closely linked to his personal and artistic life and most of his work is exhibited in their museums, and they were saved from some performances in which the artist broke or burned the work in public once finished. .
In 2014, the Tarragona City Council called him the city's favorite son, transferring part of his artistic collection to the Tarragona History Museum and the documentary collection to the Tarragona Municipal Newspaper Library. Part of his work is also found in the Museum of Modern Art of Tarragona, in the Port of Tarragona and at the Rovira i Virgili University.
His work has not only been dedicated to paintings but he has illustrated festival posters and book covers, decorated popular festival costumes and has designed and sculpted urban monuments, as well as author of articles in magazines and newspapers, and has experimented in the music field.
Throughout his life and since 1967, he has held more than 100 exhibitions both in Catalonia, Spain and abroad and in such emblematic places as the Museum of Modern Art of Tarragona, the Foundation and birthplace of Picasso in Málaga, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, the Museo Nacional Centro Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Museum of Modern Art in Ceret, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, the Diocesan Museum of Tarragona Cathedral, the Federico García Lorca House-Museum in Granada, the Sitges City Council and the Liceu Conservatory of Barcelona.