Joan Claret - Composition - Sold

Copper print, hand signed, dated (bottom right) and numbered (bottom left). Due to the glossy material, the signature and number are somewhat difficult to read.
The work is only mounted on black paper at the top, so it is not in a passepartout.
This print is a four-color copper intaglio print on aluminum foil. Claret was interested in this graphic process because it allowed him to apply his nuanced painting style and use aluminum foil as a substrate. In a long series of experiments, Claret studied the printing process and aluminum foil. The availability of glossy and matte printing inks provided an abundance of possibilities and effects. The transfer of the stencils to film and the engraving of the mold cylinders were carried out in a size ratio of 1:1 on electronically controlled systems.

Joan Claret graduated in literature in 1957, a year later he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne University in Paris. As an artist he was self-taught and in 1959 he joined the Gaspar Room, where he was part of the activity 'Tribute to Velázquez' organized by the art critic Santos Torroella and taken to the Venice Biennale.
He developed a painting from a concept of open spaces and shapes, achieved through composition, rhythm and controlled organization. He thus created a very personal expressionism of a geometric and, in general, abstract type, in which white, black and gray dominate.
He exhibited individually in Barcelona, Madrid and Munich and jointly at the MAN exhibitions of 1964, 1965 and 1971 and in various countries in Europe, Asia and America.
He won the first Joan Miró Prize for drawing (1962) and participated in groups such as O Figura, Modern Spanish Painting and Seven Catalonian Artists.