Opening Date: 04/02/2010 Closing Date: 04/04/2010

Martí Cormand invents a hidden abstract world which is made visible through representation. This realist version of the world is infiltrated by this other universe and disintegrates it.
Cormand acts within the systems of realism and abstraction in order to carry painting to a point of articulation in self- awareness. His work contains qualities of transparency, density, light, shadows and extreme precision with similarities with the Dutch School of painting. These are qualities which are brought together with references to digital technologies in the reproduction of images. He creates a world where that which is artificial infiltrates into the natural.

Born in Barcelona in 1970, he has lived and worked in Brooklyn since 2002.
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Works 1950-2009.
Opening Date: 17/09/2009
L’Hospitalet inaugurates a new art space - the temporary home to the Arranz-Bravo Foundation in the Tecla Sala of the Metropolità Cultural Centre. The presentation of this exhibition area was held on Thursday the 17th of September with the opening of the exhibition “The Arranz-Bravo Foundation. Works 1950-2009”, with brings together a total of 71 works by artist Eduard Arranz-Bravo, the owner of the foundation.

The Arranz-Bravo Foundation has a collection of two hundred and ninety-two works by the artist from all periods.

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"Hospitalitart". A project commissioned by the art critic Luis Casado where he presents the art of five young creators with connections to l’Hospitalet de Llobregat. By means of this project, the Arranz-Bravo Foundation aims to support the values of hospitality which are traditionally associated to the city of l’Hospitalet, and now applied to young contemporary creation..  

"Arranz-Bravo. Self Portraits" is an exhibition produced by the Arranz-Bravo Foundation of l’Hospitalet de Llobregat with the aim of displaying the collection of over fifty self portraits donated by the artist to the institution. Throughout his career, Arranz-Bravo has cultivated a deep and obsessive relationship with this genre, becoming one of the most committed artists in Spain to the tradition of the European existential self portrait. Like Durero, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Artaud and Francis Bacon, the Barcelona artist understands the self portrait as a means of introspective exploration and at the same time, as a means for reiterating some of his main artistic interests, such as the intensity of the look, organic expressivity and the effusion of colour. This is a good opportunity to see this singular facet of one of the most outstanding creators in the field of the figurative arts in Spain during the second half of the 20th century and the beginnings of the 21st..  

Exhibition of works by the winners of the twelve latest editions of the Honda Awards, one of Spain’s most important art awards dedicated to emerging artists.
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Trilogia del Crim is the latest project of the Reus artist Jordi Abelló. Abelló has created three series on paper - Interiors, Street and Crime – in which he analyses, from a tragic and dark perspective, the complex relationship of the human being with his environment..  

Els artistes Antoni Llena, Arranz-Bravo, Miquel gelabert, Martí Cormand i Diego Tampanelli realitzaran propostes plàstiques homenatjant a l’escriptor i pintor Josep maria de Sucre, obres que s’exposaran al costat d’una selecció de petits retrats i creacions al pastel de De Sucre localitzades en diferents col·leccions d’artistes catalans..