Eduard Bigas Eduard Bigas is a Catalan painter, born in 1969 in Palafrugell. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
Already in his early years he showed talent in drawing and painting.
His first solo exhibition took place in 1990 in Sala d'Art L'Artistica Girona.
During this time, he made contact with the painter Modest Cuixart, one of the founding members of the group Dau al Set, who encouraged him to continue his artistic career.
After having been exhibited regularly in his home Catalunya, he started travelling extensively. He spent some months in Sydney and New York and came back from these residencies with a new series of drawings. Later these drawings were shown in his solo exhibition “Carving Metropolis” at the Galerie Kuchling in Berlin 2013.
After his move to London in 2002, he showed his work in exhibitions at the Brick Lane Gallery and the Nettie Horn Gallery. During his period in London, he never lost the contact to his home Catalunya and was part of group exhibitions like in Fundació Cuixart and Casa Elizalde in Barcelona.
Now, for more than ten years, Berlin is the centre of his artistic and private life. However, he still finds great inspiration in travelling, which is reflected in the series of his drawings created in Tokyo and Taiwan.
His work has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, London, Amsterdam, Miami, Venice, Spain and Taiwan. You can find his work in private collections in Europe, Asia and the US.
Art historian and writer Tom Pugh: “Eduard Bigas works in oils, ink, pastels, acrylic, wax crayon and pencil – often at the same time – in a relentless quest to render and reveal even the strangest corners of his unique imagination. […] The paintings only rarely feature recognisable figurative elements - though they are always preoccupied with the human form, the curve of an arm or shoulder, at times open and welcoming, at times reserved and wary. Instead, he is actively exploring the exact point at which emotion (or 'dream') blurs objective engagement with reality (or 'life'). […] Bigas does not expect or want us to understand his work - he is hoping to meet us on a more visceral level. […] The artist's trademark ingredients are a delicate handling of light and tone, exquisite draughtsmanship, attention to colour and line, a strong sense of movement and feel for organic form. […] His work shows us the tension between what we want and what we have, and our fear that even this does not truly belong to us.”