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2023 Affordable Art Fair Chelsea (New York City)

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Collections
Colección Bassat de Arte Contemporáneo, Mataró (Barcelona) Spain
Art Collection Pepsico, Headquarters, USA
Consulado Geral do Brasil em Nova York, USA

Public art installations
Pepsico Company, Planta Gamesa Vallejo, Mexico
Pepsico Company, Vietnam
Pepsico Company, Frankfort, Indiana USA

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Art Review
"The act of mechanical repetition finds Grau taking on an almost automatized art practice while simultaneously imbuing it with the subjectivity that solely the human hand can only proffer. That is, these works simply could not have been made without the haptic touch of the artist's brush. Indeed, it is the textural, crumbling surface."
Ekin Erkan, PhD is a researcher in art history

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Àngels Grau is a Catalan artist
who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most notorious wine regions in Europe.

This combination allows her to have the best of three worlds;
it brings together the creativity and passion that her paintings demand.
Anonymous Women, "Mares del vi", Life, and Horizon show the creative
and vital stream of her art.

INVISIBLE WOMEN

“After visiting Manolo Valdés’ studio, I felt the need to paint women like me. We are here and we exist. We are those women.”

Faceless feminine portraits displayed in an attitude of passive defiance.

Large formats with numerous layers and diverse techniques convey the complexity and depth of their personal dimension.

Invisible Women is dedicated to all those strong women who stand up for themselves, in every corner of the planet to improve society and the world.

This collection is a tribute to each and every one of them.

MARES DEL VI

“Painting with wine lees forces you to find depth, volume… pigments with ruby, red, purple, blue, violet, sepia, and gray tones.”

Wine lees in English, Lías del vino in Spanish, Mares del vi in Catalan which also means Mothers of the wine. These are sediments that are formed at the bottom of the barrels by the essence of the grape itself.

Priorat is a small and mountainous wine region deep in Catalonia linked to the artist's life and marriage.

Àngels knows the world of wine and the landscapes of her childhood summers recover special importance in her artistic production.

Her complete communion with the surroundings appears when experiencing painting with the wine lees.

"The paintings are alive, the oxidation process alters the coloring and tonality over time."

Acrylic and wine

Vineyards in front of the Montsant mountain

Aging cellar of Scala Dei

Scala Dei tasting room

Painting with wine

Ink and wine

Cellar of the "Angelets"

Works drying on the terrace of the house

My summer porch

Test with different wines

Our cellar

The year of construction

My winter dinner room

More tests with wine

LIFE

After traveling the world and bringing up four children who are almost living their own lives, the artist feels the need to recover and capture the long and precious memories of her life to organize them in experiences.

The remnants of her life turned into paintings are autobiographical reflections. Memories, neatly ordered to make peace

with life and to fight the feeling of wasted time.

A notion of memory is stratified into perception, emotion, time, and experience.

Super 8 films of metaphorical, pictorial, and abstract landscapes:

“Inspired by my everyday experiences, my memories, and my photographs.”

HORIZON

Moving to the East Coast of the United States meant a radical change in the life of the artist. She arrived in the middle of winter, facing one of the most difficult moments of her life, grieving the loss of her beloved parents.

The Horizon series is the result of a period of introspection and discovery as an artist.

A dialogue between what is and what ought to be.

The yearning for absent loved ones allows for tranquility to be found

on the horizon. The line at which the earth's surface and the sky appear to meet brings peace for the heart.

"I superimpose a multitude of layers that I later remove by rubbing little by little until I manage to find my own horizon."

ANGELS GRAU BELLA

"I paint by superimposing layers of different colors and intensities which I eliminate with water in a healing process to convey my message. Intense oranges appear in the background giving light behind dark curtains."

Born to a family of artists, she grew up surrounded by drawings, tapestries, and paintings that awakened a special sentiment that over time matured into her work.

A graphic designer first and painter by evolution, in 2018 she decided

to make the leap into becoming a full-time artist. Nothing has deterred her since.

A large-format painter, she likes to define herself as self-taught. She does not focus

on one work of art but rather experiments, and jumps around, enjoying the challenge.

The boundaries of the surfaces of her artworks are misleading, especially in recent works that seek to expand and take over the space.

The artist jumps between her different series, staying true to what emotions she experiences at the time.

"I sign my works on the back to give freedom to interpretation.

I like them to be lived.

Even hanging it upside down.”