BELLOSTA, Carles

Born in Sabadell, Barcelona, in 1962, painter Carles Bellosta possesses a solid and rigorous academic training anchored in the great Catalan artistic tradition, having trained in pictorial procedures at the emblematic School of Applied Arts and Artistic Crafts of Barcelona (Llotja) and completed his specialization with a degree in textile design from the prestigious “Massana” School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, a formative background forged through a rich life journey in which, to pay for his studies, he performed the most diverse jobs that nourished his existential sensitivity, working at the water company La Casa de Sabadell, the Bernat Metge Foundation, as a welder in the port of Barcelona, a textile designer, and a physical education teacher, thus consolidating a profoundly human perspective that he transferred into his art since holding his first solo exhibition in his hometown in 1984 and launching an unstoppable career that has led him to present over 60 solo exhibitions across Spain, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States, achieving outstanding international recognition backed by such prestigious awards as the Gold Medal of the Academy of Modern Art in Rome, the Golden Palm in Mallorca in 1996, the Golden Oscar in Gran Canaria in 1997, and the Culture Oscar in Florence in 2001, merits that have placed his work within a select circuit of institutional and private collecting, with his creations integrated into the holdings of various cultural foundations, town halls, business corporations, and contemporary art museums both national and international that preserve key pieces of his authorship and reflect the continuous interest of critics and curators in a trajectory marked by technical rigor, plastic depth, and an unmistakable humanistic imprint.