Broccoli or a modernist mosaic can both be perfect subjects when seen through an image that renders them abstract.
My degree in Contemporary History (1976) and my frequent travels have led me, perhaps in reaction, to attempt to capture, in timeless images, the most indifferent realities.
I began the study and specialized practice of photography in the Photography Workshops of Churchill College, Cambridge University in 1977. I opened my professional studio «! 8 x24» in 1978 in Sarrià (Barcelona), and have been there continuously since then.
Alternating personal compositions and public commissions, architecture, interior design and fashion, large format portrait and personal portraiture, I have always found in the game of whites and shadows, reflections and the geometry of colors, the springboard for my job as a photographer.
I worked for the Photographic Archives of the Museums of Barcelona from 1991 to 1996 and for architecture and interior design magazines such as Quaderns d’Arquitectura, Ianus, Arquitecturas bis, UR, El Croquis, ON, Nuevo Estilo, El Mueble, Casa Viva, El País, La Vanguardia from 1983 until today.
I have done work for major large format photographic exhibitions, such as The 1929 Barcelona Exposition (Miró Foundation, 1979)Architectures for Barcelona (College of Architects, 1979)José Antonio Coderch (Tinell Hall, 1980)Marcel Duchamp (Joan Miró Foundation, 1981), Public Works in Catalonia 1850-1982 (El Born in 1982) and The Large European Projects (Palau Robert, 1987). I have also contributed to books on Barcelona,The Eixample (1983), The Catalogue of the Historical-Artistic Architectural Heritage of the City of Barcelona (1987) From within the Eixample (2003), and on the architect Domenech i MontanerOrchestra Conductor exposition of the Caixa de Barcelona in 1989 andDomenech i Montaner in 2000 Association of Architects, and John Rubió Bellver, Modernist Architect, , Editorial Bisagra (1998-2000)
I have also done fashion photography for“Ferrer i Sentís”, ELLE, Vogue Uomo... and that's where I found it most difficult to find a stable idea, which is what I'm always looking for. It was intriguing work.
“I noticed that often, under some object, a flower, a stone ... something happened that formed a separate image. Photography requires banal objects, and I love the life of objects” (Joseph Sudek 1976)
I have also participated in group exhibitions and conferences in Barcelona, Galicia, Mallorca, Copenhagen, Madrid and Cambridge.
Rosa Feliu, photographer
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
- 2013 « Galeria Sa Pleta Freda, Mallorca
- 2011 «The City Minute to Minute» Arcades, Nuevos Ministerios, Madrid
- 2009 «18 views of the work of Humberto Rivas» Arts Sta. Monica
- 2009 «Cerda. 150 years of modernity» Shipyards, Barcelona
- 2009 «Crisis What Crisis? » Hartmann Gallery, Barcelona
- 2000 Domenech i Montaner 2000, Association of Architects, Barcelona
- 1998 Urania Gallery, Barcelona
- 1997 Urania Gallery, Barcelona
- 1996 Fotosí, Barcelona
- 1989 «The Orchestra Conductor, Domenech i Montaner» La Caixa, Barcelona
EXHIBITIONS
- 2014 « Retratos de arquitectos », Escola d’Arquitectura, Barcelona
- 2014 « Giardineto, Barcelona
- 2014 « Vallgrassa, Centre Experimental de les arts, Parc del Garraf
- 2013 « Espai La Rosa de Martínez, Barcelona
- 2009 Pep Not Gallery 2009, Mallorca
- 2007 «Rubió i Bellver, modernist architect » Industrial School, Barcelona
- 2004 «Portraits of vegetables » Antonio Barnola Gallery, Barcelona
- 2003 «Blanc de Blancs » Sa Pleta Freda Gallery, Mallorca
- 2003 « L'Eixample from within » Casa Elizalde, Barcelona
- 1997 Gallery del Café Parisien, Mallorca