Joan Hernández Pijuan

Joan Hernández Pijuan (Spain, 1931 - 2005). He studied at the Escola d’Arts i Oficis de la Llotja and the Escola de Belles Arts de Barcelona, and in 1957 he moved to Paris to study engraving and lithography at the École des Beaux-Arts. He developed his artistic career mainly in the disciplines of painting and engraving.

His work began close to gestural expressionism, later adopting geometric figuration, characterized by the inclusion of color fields and solitary objects such as fruits, glasses, eggs or scissors. In the 1980s, he incorporated motifs such as the silhouette of a leaf, the profile of a cypress or plow furrows without abandoning abstraction. At the end of that decade, he returned to informalism through an austere and atmospheric production based on the exclusive use of a black and white palette.

Among the retrospectives dedicated to his work are those held at the Centre Cultural Tecla Sala in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (1992), the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid (1993), the MACBA in Barcelona (2003) and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2011). His work is included in collections such as those of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Montreal, the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid and the MACBA in Barcelona.

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