Albert Girós

Barcelona 1954

He lives and works in Barcelona and Ibiza.

Since 1974 he dedicates himself to arts – painting, sculpture, installations, writings, photography, video, music – disciplines he practises by separate ways and in interdisciplinary via.

Since 1980 to 1994 works in teaching arts in public and private institutions.

Since 1992 he works in graphic design at On The AIR Studio in Barcelona.

Studies:

Study Art at Universitat de Barcelona an U.A.B.
Sculpture studies at master’s J.Català workshop.

Grants and Prizes:

1982 – Grant for Plastic Art / Sculpture Projects – Spanish Culture Ministry
1988 – Prize at the 7ª Biennial of Barcelona – Young Contemporary Painting


Activities , personal and group exhibitions:


1974 - Art Actual . Gallery AS - Barcelona

1975 - Exposició Internacional d'Art . Eivissa

1976 – Albert Girós: "Paintings" - Gallery Owl & Pussycat - Eivissa

............Albert Girós: "5 Accions en 10 Days" .Eivissa.

1977 - Albert Girós: "Paintings, photography & Copy Art" - Gallery Owl & Pussycat - Eivissa

............"Pere Planells, Antoni Cardona, Albert Girós" . Gallery Fred Lanzenberg . Eivissa

1978 - Albert Girós: "Paintings" - Gallery Owl & Pussycat - Eivissa

...........Albert Girós: "Installation" - Espai B5-125 - (Installation, conference/presentation andi publication) . Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

...........Albert Girós: "Canvas" . Gallery Charo Hdez. Yagüe - Madrid

...........Albert Girós: "Installation" - Tres Gallery - Academia de Belles Arts de Sabadell

...........Albert Girós: "Installation" - Museum of Contemporary Arts - Eivissa

...........Salon de Primavera . M.A.C.- Eivissa

........... Ibizagrafic 78 . M.A.C.- Eivissa

........... Negro sobre blanco - La Casa del Siglo XV . Segovia

1979 - Albert Girós: "Paintings" - Gallery Carl van der Voort - Eivissa

...........Albert Girós: "Comunication : Relation Linear Structures " . Action.. Eivissa.(with Toni Cardona i Ricardo Roux) .

...........Albert Girós: "Relation Structures" . Installation produced by U.A.B. Sant Cugat del Vallés . Barcelona.

............"Proposta per un espai d'acció artistica". Acció Passeig Vara de Rey
Eivissa ( en col.laboracio amb Antoni Cardona i Ricardo Roux)

............Trobada de Poesia Visual dels Països Catalans . Facultat B.B.A.A. Barcelona.

............Mostra de Cultura Catalana . Palau dels Reis de Mallorca . Perpinyá.

........... Mostra d'Art Conceptual Catalá . M.A.C.- Eivissa

............M.A. Gallery Lara Vincy . Paris

1980 - MEMORIA . Sculpture/Landscape intervention . (+ publication) . Eivissa.

..........Albert Girós: "Thought is a prison". (Action, conference and publication) . Institut Cornellá . Barcelona

..........Destinataire Paris . Gallery Lara Vincy . Paris

..........Fira Internacional d'Art postal audiovisual . Gallery Lara Vincy . Paris

1981 – Publish " Comunication : Relation Linear Structures " .

............Publish "Projects and working documents" (Publication about projects and large size works )

............Llibres d'Artista/Artists Books . Metrónom . Barcelona

1982 - Albert Girós: "Space-Light-Material-Time" (Installation, sculpture & photography) . Fundació Joan Miró - Espai 10 - Barcelona

............Saló de Tardor - Saló del Tinell . Barcelona

............Art Català dels Anys 70 . Gallery Caminul . Bucarest (Itinerant over Romania).

...........Jornades Internacionals de Nova Música . Fundació Joan Miró. Barcelona.

...........Libros de Artistas. Dirección General de Bellas Artes . Ministerio de Cultura.

1983 - Albert Girós: "Landscape" . (Installation, conference/presentation ) Escola Illa . Sabadell

...........Casino . Gallery. Med a Mothi - Montpellier

...........Casino - Fundacio Joan Miro - Barcelona

...........Fuera de Formato - Centro Cultural de la Villa - Madrid

1984 - Albert Girós: "Cista de Reus" . (Installation, conference/presentation and publication) Escola Taller d'Art - Reus

............Albert Girós: "E". Sculpture/Landscape intervention / E-R-A Project . Castellvell del Camp . Tarragona

............Homenatge a Marcel Duchamp. Espai B5-125 .U.A.B. Barcelona

1985 - Nova Escultura Catalana . (Itinerant over Catalonia) . Sala Caixa de Barcelona . Barcelona

1987 - "A day in the life" (Action and objects edition)

1988 - Bienal Jove Pintura Contemporania . Fundacio Caixa Barcelona . Barcelona

1989 - "Trama" . Sala d'Exposicions de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions del carrer Montcada - Caixa de Pensions - Barcelona

1990 – He realices several pieces of video-art / investigates in digital image and sounds:

"Screen Floating Music" & "Ramas y motores" . Presented at INFART . CIEJ- La Caixa . Barcelona.
" My End is My Beginning" (around the artist Pilar Viviente – presented in the artist exhibition at Centre d'Art Santa Monica . Barcelona)

1991 – Found the studio On The Air - Design/Video/Multimedia - in Barcelona (with Antoni & Margarita Mascaró).

..........."Space Pix Mix" (Videoinstallation and sound space – coproduced by On The Air and CIEJ , La Caixa – performed in collaboration with Margarita Mascaró)

On The Air becomes comercial enterprise and he takes up his work of graphic designer in the area of comercial music.


1996 - Experiences with laser and internet:

..........."Good Morning Mr. Paik" (Action and video produced by On The Air . Barcelona)

..........."CU-SEE ME Thinkers" ( Action - videoconference at reflector of Cornell University U.S.A)

..........."Laser show OTA" (Action/video - http://www.airgraphic.com/html/pixmix.htm )

...........Begins "Historia de Sara" work in progress multimedia based in digital image and photography over relations between memory and future...


1999 - "Eivissa, L'art dels 70" - M.A.C. Eivissa

...........Compact Art . Gallery Rrose Selavy . Barcelona

2000 - Albert Girós - "Paintings, video & Sculptures" - Museum of Contemporary Art of Ibiza .

2001 - Albert Girós: "Paintings" - Gallery Rrose Selavy . Barcelona

..........Compact Art . Gallery 98 . Cadaqués

2003 – Albert Girós – "Paintings, video and digital Works" - ICT – Institut Català de Tecnología - Barcelona

............"Light bubbles/Paths for meditation" - short edition / images packet

............MAD ’03 – Madrid - Spain

2004 - IDAA - Australia & U.S.A.

............SIGGRAPH - Art Gallery: Synaesthesia - Los Angeles - U.S.A.

............ CANARIAS MEDIA FEST 2004 – Albert Girós – “RAW” (digital photography show) - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Spain