Joan Gardy Artigas - Ostie, lithograph + catalogue

Large lithograph, numbered in pencil by the artist in 80 copies and signed. Dimensions 63 x 80 cm. In perfect condition, only preserved lying down in a chest of drawers.

Joan Gardy Artigas is a Spanish surrealist, second-generation ceramist, and an embracer of modernism in his artwork. He was a friend and close collaborator of Joan Miró. He was a colleague of Alberto Giacometti, and collaborated with Georges Braque and Marc Chagall.

Joan Gardy Artigas is known for creating the 7,200 tiles of the "Miró Wall", a ceramic mural depicting surreal figures and creatures designed by Miró for the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany. He is also known for his "Gaudi Tile Cladding", part of the artwork "Woman and Bird", a 22-meter-high sculpture designed by Miró and located in the Parc Joan Miró in Barcelona, Spain (cfr. Picture)

His large ceramic murals and sculptures are located throughout the world, including Harvard University, UNESCO (Paris), Fondation Maeght (St. Paul), the 1970 World's Fair in Osaka, Barcelona Airport, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the IBM headquarters (Barcelona), and a 60-meter (200-foot) ceramic mural for the Palais des Expositions et des Congres de Madrid.
Joan Gardy Artigas has had shows in many European, Japanese and American galleries and museums, including the Meadows Museum of Spanish Art at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the Hispanic Institute in New York and the renowned Galerie Lelong in Paris.

In 1996 a major retrospective of his work in all media was held in Barcelona and in 1998 a major exhibition documenting Miró's collaborations with Josep Llorens Artigas (his father, Picasso and Miró's favourite ceramicist) and Joan Gardy Artigas was held at the Fundació Pilar I Joan Miró in Palma de Mallorca.

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