Joan Carles Roca-Sans (1946) - Cadaqués (Gerona)

The work is signed at the bottom (roca sans)

On the back, it is titled and dated 1986

The work is presented framed

The condition of the work is good

Dimensions of the work: 45 x 54 cm.

Dimensions of the framed work: 56 x 65 cm.

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Artist biography:

Joan Carles Roca Sans is a Catalan painter and multidisciplinary creator whose career is marked by a firm defense of figurative painting and a constant reflection on European artistic tradition.

Born in Barcelona in 1946, he began his pictorial activity in the late 1970s, at a moment when the vanguards dominated the art scene. Trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts, he chose a different path, drawing inspiration from classical Greece, the Renaissance, and the great Western pictorial tradition to develop a personal postmodern language.

During the 1980s he spent long periods in Germany, especially in Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Munich, where he absorbed the influence of Central European Expressionism. From this period arose a style that the artist himself defines as synthetic expressionism, characterized by formal simplification, chromatic intensity, and a strong narrative charge.

Between 1987 and 1991 he acquired and restored the Palau-sator preroman castle, a project recognized by the Fundació Catalunya Nostra with the Castells Culturals prize. Subsequently he promoted the Atrium Torroella cultural space, dedicated to the diffusion of contemporary art and European artistic heritage.

From the year 2000 onward he evolved his visual language, incorporating new investigations into light, time, and visual storytelling. Between 2007 and 2016 he developed the Ermoupoli Project, an ambitious initiative that combined painting, sculpture, graphic novels, video, and new technologies inspired by his travels in the Mediterranean. In 2017 he brought this project to a close to return to a more essential painting, focused on the capacity of the image to generate multiple interpretations.

His work, rooted in urban and Mediterranean themes, is populated by symbolic characters and scenes rich in cultural references. For Roca Sans, painting and life are inseparable: each canvas constitutes a page of his own biography. He has held more than a hundred solo exhibitions, and his works are part of numerous public and private collections.

In addition to his work as a painter, he has published several books on art and aesthetics and has developed intense activity as a writer and cultural promoter. His output spans painting, drawing, sculpture, installations, and editorial projects, establishing him as one of the distinctive voices of Catalan contemporary art.