Francesc Domingo: From Sant Just to Sâo Paulo

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Image courtesy of Fundació Vila Casas

Educated in a working-class school, and gifted at drawing, Francesc Domingo i Segura was a catalyst for the Agrupació Courbet, a group of young people who were driven towards the avant-garde by the noucentist scene and the influence of Cézanne. He was a member of the Catalan School of Paris, and his art is inspired by his admiration for Picasso and an intimate assimilation of Catalan Romanesque Art, in a spiritual plasticism, which places him in the triad of the Catalan avant-garde: Miró-Dalí-Domingo.

With the onset of the Spanish Civil War, he placed himself fearlessly at the forefront of the artists, and his leadership in the so-called Catalan Revolution eventually led to his exile. In São Paulo, as a participant in Brazilian Modernism, Domingo made his own cultural interpretation of the black Virgin of Montserrat (and the representation of motherhood in Mediterranean art), by painting, drawing and engraving numerous black and mixed-race mothers from Brazil.

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his death, the Fundació Vila Casas will hold an anthological exhibition of his works, curated by Natàlia Barenys. It aim is to offer greater understanding of the artist’s work, and represents his return from exile in Brazil.

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