“Painting is linked to childhood. It is probably true that we learn what is important before we are ten years old […] In Mallorca I learned the names of trees, fish, birds. I learned to whistle, throw stones, fish, kill and gut hares and lambs, and cook them. I usually paint what I kill or what I eat”.

Galería Elvira González opens on Wednesday, January 29, Flores, peces, toros, Miquel Barceló’s fourth exhibition in the gallery.

The show will feature a selection of paintings, ceramics and watercolors with various themes that make up his close universe; marine themes, bullfighting, still life and flowers.

“My day to day life is summed up in painting, swimming and reading”, the artist declares. Interested in the organic life and the passing of time, Barceló considers ceramic an extension of his painting. At the same time, as the innate draftsman that he is, in his travel notebooks and watercolors on paper, he conveys his thoughts and reflects on what he observes in nature.

A catalogue has been published on the occasion of the exhibition with illustrations of all the works and some travel notebooks, as well as a conversation with the Matador Juan Francisco Esplá that took place in Nimes in 2002.