Josep Maria de Sucre

A tribute to Josep Maria de Sucre, painter, poet, art critic and cultural promoter, with works by some thirty Catalan creators of the early post-war period and a look at his role as a driving force behind that generation.

This exhibition pays tribute to Josep Maria de Sucre, a figure of Catalan culture who worked as a painter, poet, art critic and cultural promoter. The show, at Espais Volart, brings together works by some thirty Catalan creators of the early post-war period and focuses both on Sucre's own output and on his work as a spiritual patron of that generation.

According to the presentation, Sucre's career occupies a key place in the move from Noucentisme towards the avant-garde of the 20th century. His work, centred on faces, masks and portraits, explores the inner lives of people with an expressive intensity that the material links to later neo-expressionist approaches.

The curators, Aitor Quiney and Joan Gil Gregorio, propose a route that revisits the bridge Sucre built between the artists of the Republican period and the emerging creators who, with grants from the Institut Français, reconnected with Paris and international currents after the Civil War. It is a proposal designed for anyone who wants to revisit a chapter in the story of Catalan art of the post-war years.