NEWSLETTER for Murkhasya (test)

about us

Murkhasya is a creative space functioning as a contemporary art gallery and a design studio. The founder has a dual degree in Engineering and Contemporary Arts and as a consequence, the purpose of the space is to be a bridge between two seemingly different worlds of Engineering and Creative Studio Arts.

The space is divided into two floors in the historic section of the city of Barcelona, which functions as a contemporary art gallery on the ground floor and as a design and web development agency on the first floor.

May at Murkhasya Gallery

12 MAY OPENING PARTY

new exhibit: Lucid Dreams [ free entry ]

15 MAY

25 MAY

27 MAY

Learn how to make your own customized Jewelry with our in-house sculptor and jewelry maker, Ivana

The visitors will have a choice of drinks among TEA, COFFEE AND WINE

JEWELRY WORKSHOP [ 40€ ]

31 MAY

JAM SESSION

(Live music + Spanish Sangria) [ 10€ ]

19 MAY FRIDAY DISCONNECTION

(After work party at the gallery) [ 3€ ]

OLAWALE KOLAWOLE NIGERIA

he artists behind the art

SPANISH ARTIST FLORENCIA CLEMENT REWROTE HER STORY THROUGH ART

In 2017, Florencia Clement de Grandprey found out her ex-husband had seven children with three different women and eight grandchildren — and he was still legally married to someone else. She spent that Valentine's Day wretched until she started receiving hundreds of Facebook messages and more than 1,000 friend requests.

"A month earlier, I posted my mixedmedia portrait of Michelle [Obama]," Clement de Grandprey tells New Times. "

That day, the Obama's revealed their official Smithsonian portraits to the world, and thousands of people went back to my Michelle post. They were now reaching out, sending beautiful messages, and I wanted to continue to share art."

Her mixed-media painting of the former first lady received more than 78,000 likes and 57,000 shares. She also gained 4,000 followers that day and over a thousand comments.

Born and raised in southern Spain, Clement de Grandprey is the daughter of an American mother and a French-Italian father. The now-50-year-old worked as a tour guide in Spain, an English tutor in Italy, and an airline pilot in the United Kingdom. After 9/11, she was let go of her job and found herself living and working in Fort Lauderdale, where she worked as an interior designer.

Interview Florencia Clement

The artists behind the art

"I moved here in 2004," Clement de Grandprey says. "But the reason I stayed is because I found a job, and I really didn't have too much to go back to in Spain."

In 2014, she quit her full-time job as a project manager to pursue her real passion: painting.

"I've always loved drawing & painting," she says. "When I was 5, I did my first oil painting of a house with a blond mother carrying a laundry basket. It was super detailed, and I still have that picture. I feel like painting has always been a part of my life."

She initially set out to paint on canvases and incorporate upcycled and repurposed materials that would have been disposed of, such as discontinued fabric and paper samples, to create backgrounds and layer her subjects.

Now, she paints directly on upholstery fabric and area rugs and has a variety of mixed-media styles. The fabric patterns intertwine with the imagery, adding yet another dimension to her work. Ultimately, though, Clement's goal with her artwork is to showcase men and women as inspiring, strong, and elegant.

"When I paint, it's like therapy for me, and I know it can be like therapy for others," she explains. "I want to represent as many ethnicities and cultures as possible because I really feel like it's important that everyone can see themselves in it and not just have it be one certain group. It's for everyone really and inclusive."

Even without any art schooling, Clement de Grandprey has racked up several accolades, including the "Latino Award" for the 2021 edition of ArtPrize. She was chosen as the Miami representative for the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series contest on display at Scope Art Show during Miami Art Week.

"I want the message to be spread to as many people and places as possible," Clement de Grandprey says. "The message on positivity and that a good change can come."

DON’T FORGET TO CHECK OUT :

ARXIU FOTOGRÀFIC OF BARCELONA

An inconspicuous exhibition room that brings out interesting photos and brings you closer to Barcelona’s diverse past.

3,5

The positives: Photography lovers can enjoy historical, rather unknown photos on the subject of the "City of Barcelona"

THE NEGATIVES

The quality varies depending on the exhibition. There is no permanent show.

More like something for Barcelona repeat offenders

TIP

If you are traveling with the family - the Chocolate Museum is located in the same building - so enjoy the photography first and then, as a reward, immerse yourself in the world of chocolate with the children

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GALERIA MIQUEL ALZUETA

Alzueta Gallery is a contemporary art gallery with locations in Barcelona and Madrid. The main goal of Alzueta Gallery is to represent the time in which it lives. To be the creative reflection that unites the will, the works and the desires, of the contemporary creators that it represents. Young, emerging and consolidated artists, Spanish and foreign artists, all of them united by one criteria, the eye of an aesthetic that tries to transgress the first and subtle layer of the form, to reach deeper places, where the ethic is the main purpose of art.

Galeria Miguel Alzueta is a pictorial and photographic gallery that works with established and emerging artists.

DETAILS

Address Sèneca, 9 Barcelona

Contact View Website 93 238 97 50

Transport Diagonal (M: L3, L5)

Opening hours Mon-Fri 10am-2pm, 4pm-8pm