Miquel Rué and the infinit *

We discover the work of Miquel Rué (Sant Boi de Llobregat, 1929 – Paris, 1967).

A fascinating post-war abstract painter is revealed to us. An artist who suggests the immensities and enigmas of cosmic forces: a creator who therefore addresses the sensibilities of the 21st century. Everyone, historians included, had lost track of it.

His story was tragic. After a humble vocation, but determined on the path of modernity, he left for Paris where he rebuilt a career from scratch. When he was beginning to consolidate his place in the art system of the French capital, death surprised him in fullness, at only thirty-seven years old. His wife, Maria Calero, quite affected, kept his work under lock and key – for decades – until today. Although he managed to work with a prominent Parisian gallery of the time, Suzanne de Koninck, his work was solitary. It should be borne in mind that, as the decade of the sixties progressed, sensibilities changed and Pop Art would triumph. Death cut short a consistent and courageous career.

These works come to us as if from a journey through time, evoking an overflowing and melancholic beauty. They are hallucinatory images of a dream that, in our contemporary times, anxious and fascinated at the same time by the future of the planet, aware of our smallness, can still be useful to us.

The universe is unreachable. We can only imagine it. Rué, overcoming his vertigo, threw himself into it.

* Text written by the museum