Sculptor Pep Codó, new portrait by Toni Ricart /  by Toni Ricart

I've been shooting a portrait of the catalan sculptor Pep Codó at his workshop in La Floresta (Barcelona), surrounded by his fascinating masterpieces.

Pep Codó is one of the most solid and precise bodies of sculptural works produced in this country in recent years. Maria Lluïsa Borràs coincided with this in a text includet in a 1999 catalogue:

 - “In the course of time, sculpture has opened itself to a thousand different modes of expression and is exhibited as a simple object or a complete installation. Pep Codó insists on working stone, Ulldecona or Calatorao stone, evoking the most primitive and ancestral essences, perhaps even pre-Columbian art, with a singular will to swim against the current and delve into the remote origins of sculpture in order to be able to project his work with full knowledge of the cause, to increase it and improve it for the future.”

Pep Codó website

VALONGO Festival 2016 Internacional da imagem. Santos, SP, Brazil /  by Toni Ricart

VALONGO FESTIVAL is the moment that all the activities in VALONGO PROJECT meet and expand into new connections. From October 12th to 16th the port area of Santos turns into a big arena where guests and the public discuss, reflect, set fire to the different aspects of the production of images and contemporary visual narratives.

Photographers, filmmakers, video artists, writers, critics, scholars, curators, curious, researchers, students and any interested in the world of image. We want to see, hear, interact with all of you!

NEW PORTRAITS FOR THE "MUSICIANS" SERIES /  by Toni Ricart

I had the chance to hear a wonderful concert by the string quartet El Quartet de l'Art,  in an old church in Ordino, Andorra. The day after I did the portraits of two members of the quartet: Gaëtane Duynslaeger, cellist and teacher at the IAE Oriol Martorell (Barcelona) and her husdband David Olmedo, violinist and director of the string department at the Conservatori Municipal de Barcelona. In the same session I also did a portrait of their son, Alex Olmedo, also a great cellist.

Gaëtane Duynslaeger

David Olmedo

Alex Olmedo

Singer and guitar player JOrdi Batiste, A new portrait for the "MUSICIANS" series /  by Toni Ricart

Jordi Batiste is surely one of the active artists with a resume of vertigo. Often music historians have placed him as one of the fathers of pop-rock in Catalan after being part of IA & Batiste or, before, Els 3 Tambors. However, his name came to the fore when along with Enrique Herrera founded the group Màquina!, which was erected in the spanish musical forefront as a new way of pop/rock that broke molds and clichés. Solo he has released several albums, the most recent Nova, with whom he has returned to psychedelia and the most fresh, daring and vital rock'n roll.