Albert Gir?s
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.Catal?workshop.
Grants and Prizes:
1982 ? Grant for Plastic Art / Sculpture Projects ? Spanish Culture Ministry
1988 ? Prize at the 7? Biennial of Barcelona ? Young Contemporary Painting
Activities , personal and group exhibitions:
1974 - Art Actual . Gallery AS - Barcelona
1975 - Exposici?Internacional d'Art . Eivissa
1976 ? Albert Gir?s: "Paintings" - Gallery Owl & Pussycat - Eivissa
............Albert Gir?s: "5 Accions en 10 Days" .Eivissa.
1977 - Albert Gir?s: "Paintings, photography & Copy Art" - Gallery Owl & Pussycat - Eivissa
............"Pere Planells, Antoni Cardona, Albert Gir?s" . Gallery Fred Lanzenberg . Eivissa
1978 - Albert Gir?s: "Paintings" - Gallery Owl & Pussycat - Eivissa
...........Albert Gir?s: "Installation" - Espai B5-125 - (Installation, conference/presentation andi publication) . Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
...........Albert Gir?s: "Canvas" . Gallery Charo Hdez. Yag?e - Madrid
...........Albert Gir?s: "Installation" - Tres Gallery - Academia de Belles Arts de Sabadell
...........Albert Gir?s: "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 Gir?s: "Paintings" - Gallery Carl van der Voort - Eivissa
...........Albert Gir?s: "Comunication : Relation Linear Structures " . Action.. Eivissa.(with Toni Cardona i Ricardo Roux) .
...........Albert Gir?s: "Relation Structures" . Installation produced by U.A.B. Sant Cugat del Vall?s . Barcelona.
............"Proposta per un espai d'acci?artistica". Acci?Passeig Vara de Rey
Eivissa ( en col.laboracio amb Antoni Cardona i Ricardo Roux)
............Trobada de Poesia Visual dels Pa?sos Catalans . Facultat B.B.A.A. Barcelona.
............Mostra de Cultura Catalana . Palau dels Reis de Mallorca . Perpiny?.
........... Mostra d'Art Conceptual Catal?. M.A.C.- Eivissa
............M.A. Gallery Lara Vincy . Paris
1980 - MEMORIA . Sculpture/Landscape intervention . (+ publication) . Eivissa.
..........Albert Gir?s: "Thought is a prison". (Action, conference and publication) . Institut Cornell?. 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 . Metr?nom . Barcelona
1982 - Albert Gir?s: "Space-Light-Material-Time" (Installation, sculpture & photography) . Fundaci?Joan Mir?- Espai 10 - Barcelona
............Sal?de Tardor - Sal?del Tinell . Barcelona
............Art Catal?dels Anys 70 . Gallery Caminul . Bucarest (Itinerant over Romania).
...........Jornades Internacionals de Nova M?sica . Fundaci?Joan Mir?. Barcelona.
...........Libros de Artistas. Direcci?n General de Bellas Artes . Ministerio de Cultura.
1983 - Albert Gir?s: "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 Gir?s: "Cista de Reus" . (Installation, conference/presentation and publication) Escola Taller d'Art - Reus
............Albert Gir?s: "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 Fundaci?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 Mascar?.
..........."Space Pix Mix" (Videoinstallation and sound space ? coproduced by On The Air and CIEJ , La Caixa ? performed in collaboration with Margarita Mascar?)
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 Gir?s - "Paintings, video & Sculptures" - Museum of Contemporary Art of Ibiza .
2001 - Albert Gir?s: "Paintings" - Gallery Rrose Selavy . Barcelona
..........Compact Art . Gallery 98 . Cadaqu?s
2003 ? Albert Gir?s ? "Paintings, video and digital Works" - ICT ? Institut Catal? de Tecnolog?a - 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 Gir?s ? ?RAW? (digital photography show) - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Spain
Spain
