Enric Planasdurà

Barcelona, 1921 –  Barcelona, 1984

He started painting within a post-impressionist style. In 1949 he became a member of the Lais group, together with the painters Santi Surós, Antoni Estradera and Maria Jesús de Solà and the sculptor Xavier Modolell, with whom he signed the first ‘Black Manifesto’. With this group he exhibited at the El Jardín Galleries in the II Experimental Cycle (Barcelona, ​​1950), at the Studio Gallery (Bilbao, 1950), at the Canary Museum (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1951) in collaboration with the LADAC group, at Sala Vinoteca Cervantes (Barcelona, ​​1951) and at Galeria Syra (Barcelona, ​​1951). A year later, the group dissolved. He worked as a teacher at the Cercle de Sant Lluc (1951). He was one of the painters who did more to support the avant-garde in Catalonia, and for those years he was the only Catalan painter who worked within an geometric abstraction. In 1954 he began a period in which he focused on concrete art. It ended in 1956. It would not be until 1958 that he entered the informalist current, first in a more tachist orbit. From 1964, his work evolves, once again, towards the geometric and he abandons his interest in matter. He was a founding member of the Saló de Maig and the Cercle Maiol, a member of the Association of Current Artists and a member of the executive and advisory committee of the first Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (1960 – 1963)