RAFAEL BARTOLOZZI (Pamplona, 1943 - Vespella de Gaià, Tarragona, 2009). "New fence", Margodi house in Vespella de Gaià, 1973. Oil on canvas. With Sala Gaspar label on the back. Signed in the lower right corner. Signed, dated, titled and located on the back. Measurements: 100 x 81 cm; 103,5 x 84,5 cm (frame). Painter and sculptor whose full name is Rafael Lozano Bartolozzi. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona and at the School of Mural Painting in Sant Cugat del Vallès. Between 1966 and 1968 he worked with Eduardo Arranz, Gerard Sala and Robert Llimós. Until 1982 he continued to work together with Arranz, although they both retained their own artistic personality. Bartolozzi did not substantially modify his style, but included in his work elements of erotic suggestion, which became progressively clearer. Both of them were the introducers of the "happening" in Catalonia. In 1980 he took part in the Venice Biennale. He worked in various techniques, such as ceramics, illustration and sculpture, as well as mural and easel painting. He settled in Vespella de Gaià in 1972, where he was mayor, and promoted numerous cultural activities in the town, such as the open-air sculpture park. In 2007, the Bartolozzi Foundation was created in the town, with the aim of collecting and disseminating his work, as well as promoting the work of new artists. He is also represented in the MACBA in Barcelona, the Camón Aznar Museum in Zaragoza, the Contemporary Art Museums in Seville and Las Palmas and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Navarre, among others.