Tomeu Ventayol, JANO BIRFONT

JANO BIFRONT Tomeu Ventayol

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Tomeu Ventayol (AlcĂşdia, 1945) Tomeu Ventayol was born in Alcudia, Mallorca in 1945. He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, with an artistic trajectory in painting and sculpture of more than thirty years. His work is strongly inspired by the cubist and surrealist movements, which have guided him towards a strong and delicate abstraction.

The artist lives and works in Mallorca, he is member of the Association of Visual Artists of the Balearic Islands and has participated in many national and international exhibitons. His work is present in numerous urban spaces and important private and public collections, such as the Testimonio Collection, FundaciĂłn Caja de Pensiones de Barcelona and the Madrid Senate Jabosns Collection.

ABA ART LAB is welcoming “JANO BIFRONT” which of the most recent and personal works by the painter and sculptor Tomeu Ventayol. A set of works between paintings and sculptures have been made specifically for the space; they create a dialogue with the values of the god Janus who is known for having two faces, looking into both the past and the future. The artist has an honesty to his work, which analyzes the deity of this Roman origin and is characterized by its vigilant bifrontality to the balance of the universe: It puts a value in the experience; of one’s own, that of our elders and the experience of those already deceased.

Le Cimentère marin Ce toit tranquille, où marchent des colombes, Entre les pins palpite, entre les tombes ; Midi le juste y compose de feux La mer, la mer, toujours recommencée Ô récompense après une pensée Qu’un long regard sur le calme des dieux !

Quel pur travail de fins éclairs consume Maint diamant d’imperceptible écume, Et quelle paix semble se concevoir !

Quand sur l’abîme un soleil se repose, Ouvrages purs d’une éternelle cause, Le Temps scintille et le Songe est savoir. …

Paul A. Valery

“Putting a value

to the experience of one’s own, that of our elders and the experience of those already deceased.�

Habla un busto de Jano Nadie abriere o cerrare alguna puerta sin honrar la memoria del Bifronte, que las preside. Abarco el horizonte de inciertos mates y de tierra cierta.

Mis dos caras divisan el pasado y el porvenir. Los veo y son iguales los hierros, las discordias y los males que Alguien pudo borrar y no ha borrado ni borrará.

Me faltan las dos manos Y soy de piedra inmóvil.

No podría precisar si contemplo una porfía futura o la de ayeres hoy lejanos.

Veo mi ruina: la columna trunca y las caras, que no se verán nunca.

Jorge Luis

Tomeu Ventayol (Alcúdia, 1945) Tomeu Ventayol was born in Alcudia, Mallorca in 1945. He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, with an artistic trajectory in painting and sculpture of more than thirty years. His work is strongly inspired by the cubist and surrealist movements, which have guided him towards a strong and delicate abstraction.

The artist lives and works in Mallorca, he is member of the Association of Visual Artists of the Balearic Islands and has participated in many national and international exhibitons. His work is present in numerous urban spaces and important private and public collections, such as the Testimonio Collection, Fundación Caja de Pensiones de Barcelona and the Madrid Senate Jabosns Collection.

Individual Exhibitons 1971 Archaeological Museum. Orense 1971 L´Ull de Vidre Gallery. Palma, Majorca 1973 Circle of Fine Arts. Palma, Majorca 1973 Tous Bookstore. Palma, Majorca 1973 Tous Bookstore. Palma, Majorca 1988 Altair Gallery. Palma, Majorca 1989 Gloria de Prada Gallery. Barcelona 1991 Ubre Gallery. Alcúdia, Mallorca 1991 Altair Gallery. Palma, Majorca 1991 ¨Anthropomorphisms¨. Casal Balaguer Palma, Majorca 1994 Altair Gallery. Palma, Majorca 1998 Olaetexa Gallery, San Sebastián 2001 ¨Sculptures 1993-2001. Torre de Se Puntes (Manacor, Mallorca) and later itinerancy through Alcúdia, Artá, Felanitx, Cala Millor, Porreres and Sa Pobla.

2004 Art Convent de la Missió. Palma. Majorca 2005 Can Gelabert. Binissalem 2005 Ferroscriptures. Sculptures to the camí de Ronda. Alcúdia, Mallorca 2006 Sa Pleta Freda. Son Servera, Mallorca 2007 Àmbit Galería d´art. Barcelona 2007 Can Janer. Inca, Majorca 2007 Ca´n Fondo. Alcúdia, Mallorca 2013 Joan Mèlia Gallery. Alcúdia, Mallorca 2017 Àmbit Art Gallery. Barcelona

Collective Exhibitons 1966 Second Prize Exhibition end of course. Superior Schook of Fine Arts of Barcelona 1970 First Prize III Painting Contest. Alcúdia City Council. Majorca 1975 Alcúdia Plastic Research Cycle, Mallorca 1979 “Contemporary Graphic Work”. Caja de Ahorros de Sevilla (Seville Savings Bank) 1980 “ Graphic Work”. Venice Viva Gallery. Venice, Italy 1984 Second Prize Painting on Paper. Felantix, Mallorca 1985 Autumn Salon. Baleric Painting Biennial. Palma, Majorca 1988 “80x80”. Altair Gallery. Palma, Majorca 1988 “Art avui a Artá. Na Batlesa. Artà, Mallorca 1989 “Monòlegs”. Contemporary Art Centre, Girona 1990 “Col-lecció Testimoni”. Caixa de Pensiones Foundation, Barcelona 1990 “50 Propostes Pictòriques a Mallorca”. Calvia, Majorca 1990 “ En vida nostra”. Contemporary Art Centre, Girona 1991 “Art Avui a Alcúdia”. Alcúdia, Majorca 1991 “ Art Avui a Alcúdia”. Espai Ramon llull. Palma Majorca 1992 ARCO. International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid 1992 Chicago International Art Exposition. Chicago, USA 1992 Altair Gallery. Palma, Majorca 1992 Expo 92´. Sales of the Arenal (La Maestranza), Seville 1993 Arco. Interbational Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid 1994 “ Testimony Collection”. Caixa de Pensions Foundation, Barcelona 1995 “ Artistes solidaris. La col-lecció del Museu d´Art Contemporani de Mallorca”. Sa Quatera cetnre dárt. Inca, Mallorca 1996 “Itineraris”. Casal Solleric. Palma, Majorca 2001 Volvo Showroom. Stockholm, Sweden 2001 “Sculptures...de pintors”. Casal Solleric. Palma 2005 “Sculpture Contempània a les Illes Balears”. Enagistes Tower of Manacor, Majorca 2005 “ The reconquest of the past”. Artists from Alcudia. Byzantine Wall, Cartagena 2005 La reconquista del pasado (itinerant) Sala Municipal de exposiciones Els Alacant. Palau de la Disputació Girona. Museum of Menorca, Maó 2006 Visual Arts 2000-2005. Ca´n Gelabert. Binissalem, Mallorca 2007 Xilografies. 6th editions. Palma de Mallorca 2007 Estormiart. Tower of Ses Puntes. Manacor(itinerant) 2008 Art per la vida. Museum of Menorca 2008 Novetats editorials d´Eicions 6a. Palma de Mallorca 2008 “ The inexistent garden” Pepnot gallery Artà

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