LLUIS CLARAMUNT (Barcelona, 1951 - Zarautz, Gipuzkoa, 2000). "Composició", 1979. Oil on canvas. With information label on the back from the Galería Dau al Set (Barcelona). Work exhibited in "Luis Claramunt XI-82". Signed and dated in the upper right-hand corner. Dated in the upper right-hand corner. Measurements: 130 x 162 cm; 131 x 163 cm (frame). During the late 1970s and 1980s, Claramunt began to focus his attention on urban spaces. This work is a clear reflection of that interest as it depicts the skyline of a city from a singular perspective, using a unique composition. In the foreground, the artist places a grille and only behind it does he depict the city. In the artist's own words: "As for the execution and the approach to the work in general, it is the use of the stain without a previous scheme, made without meaning, and then extracting an idea, a sensation, and coupling it to a memory; in short, mixing two realities: one more direct, the fortuitous accident, and another less real, that which can be given by the will, the memory, the unconscious memory". A self-taught painter, draughtsman, photographer and engraver, Lluís Claramunt spent his life between Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Bilbao and Marrakesh, and developed a body of work influenced by Isidre Nonell and marked by an expressionism in its beginnings, which gradually disappeared until it became a minimal calligraphy. From the 1970s onwards he held solo exhibitions in leading galleries such as Dau al Set in Barcelona, Quatre Gats in Palma de Mallorca, Juana de Aizpuru in Seville and Buades in Madrid, and also took part in Arco (1984, 1988). He has also had solo exhibitions in New York, Amsterdam, Graz (Austria) and Lisbon. In 2012 his work was also shown in the solo exhibition "El viatge vertical", held at the MACBA in Barcelona. He is currently represented at the MACBA, the Fundació Vila Casas, the La Caixa Collection, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava, the Asociación Colección de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid, the Consejo Superior de Deportes and the Ministerio de Cultura in the same city and the Colección Caja Madrid. Claramunt has recently exhibited at the prestigious Marc Domenech gallery in Barcelona, who dedicated his exhibition "Luis Claramunt. Años 80" entirely dedicated to the artist's work. The exhibition, held in May 2016, featured more than seventy works which demonstrated the artist's predilection for urban spaces, represented through a totally expressionistic palette in which a dynamic and vibrant palette predominates.