Eduardo Arranz- Bravo Biography
Eduardo Arranz-Bravo was born in Barcelona in 1941. His artistic training took place between the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona and the International School of Mural Painting in San Cugat del Vallés. During a trip to Paris in 1958, he was influenced by abstract art and began to paint in this style. Here he met the physicist Miquel Masriera who encouraged him to continue painting. In 1960, disappointed by the retrograde attitude of the teachers, he made friends with artists such as Paquito Artigau, Gerard Sala, Puiggros, Serra de Ribera, Pedro Giralt, Robert Llimós and above all Rafael Bartolozzi, with whom he subsequently collaborated actively. Arranz-Bravo is a painter, printmaker and sculptor who held his first solo exhibition in 1961 at the University Club of Barcelona. In the same year, during a trip to Italy, he discovered the art of Caravaggio which made him question the formal perfections learned during his studies at the academy. He later abandoned academic drawing and embraced more surreal and psychedelic art. He has received various awards and has exhibited in many exhibitions. In 1971 he created a psychedelic-pop mural at the Parets factory in San Cugat del Vallés together with Rafael Lozano Bartolozzi, with whom he collaborated intensively in the 60s and 70s. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1980 and had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo in 1989. In 1996, his work was exhibited at the La Tecla room of Hospitalet de Llobregat in Barcelona and in 1999 he was one of fifty artists chosen by the Spanish Ministry of Culture for the traveling exhibition Dibujos Germinales: 50 Artista Españoles. Today, he lives in Cadaquès.
