Josep Costa Sobrepera

Josep Costa Sobrepera (Palafrugell) is a painter of figurative art in Palafrugell (Catalonia, Spain), which highlights his watercolors and oil paintings of seascapes.

Josep Costa Sobrepera.

Biography

Youth

Born in a family professionally related with the cork sector, his teachers realized of his ability to realize paintings. Costa Sobrepera received night classes at the Local School of Arts and, at 16, got his first job in the workshop of blacksmith master artisan Joan Gich. The first public exhibit of his work was in 1955 at the Library of Palafrugell, driven by his teacher Lluís Medir Jofra.[1]

Continued exhibiting his works in the library and other centers of the town until 1958, when he began to participate in national and international events, winning some prices. In the decade from 1960 was employed by several companies as a technical engineer for five years and taught evening classes at the School of Arts and Crafts Palafrugell, substituting for his teacher.[2] In 1966 he enrolled at the School of Industrial Engineers of Barcelona. This meant that Costa Sobrepera had little time for painting.

Dedication as a painter

Until 1971 he lived in Barcelona, where it housed the first studio and enrolled as a listener in anatomy classes at the School of Fine Arts, where he met artists like Martinez Lozano. He returned to Palafrugell in 1972 to devote himself entirely to painting in his studio, where he also taught drawing and painting. During the following years he exhibited his work in several galleries throughout Catalonia and Spain, including Barcelona's Sala Rovira, and was awarded in various competitions, both national and international. The 1975 is considered an "important year" for him both personally (married) as an artistic level (exhibited at many venues and art galleries).[3]

The end of the decade of 1970 and during 1980 was the era of artistic production and Costa Sobrepera breakthrough in the dissemination of his work with the participation of many international competitions and a significant presence throughout Catalonia opening in Spain.

In 1996 it is considered that started a new creative stage that led him to travel to Scandinavia and elsewhere in Western Europe.[4] Within this new stage he momentarily left the oil painting to devote himself to watercolor and other colors such as gray and green took center stage.[4] Costa Sobrepera continued getting awards, especially in France.[4][5][6][7]

Selected works
  • Ecstasy. The hopes of a desire (1953)
  • Women (India, 1998)
  • Home (India 1998)
  • Market (Guatemala, 1987)
  • Market Street (Guatemala, 1987)
  • Morning Light (Palamós, 1999)
  • Boats (La Selva, 2004)
  • The veil of light (Sweden, 1997)

Exhibits
Year Space City Description
1955Library PalafrugellPalafrugellExhibition of watercolors
1956Library PalafrugellPalafrugellExhibition of watercolors
1957Savings Bank of the Province of GironaPalafrugellSolo exhibition of oil paintings
1958Savings Bank of the Province of GironaPalafrugellSolo exhibition of oil paintings
1958City HallFigueresExhibition of watercolors
1973Sala RoviraBarcelonaExhibition
1974Art Room EmpordàPalafrugellSolo exhibition of oil paintings and watercolors
1975Art Room EmpordàPalafrugellExhibition of watercolors individual and collective
1975Art Room and ColourVicExhibition of watercolors
1975The VaultsOlotExhibition of watercolors
1976Art Room EmpordàPalafrugellExhibitions individual and collective
1976Caixa GironaPalafrugellExhibition
1976Art Room and ColourVicExhibition
1976Gallery TramontanaBarcelonaExhibition
1976Pension GironaPalafrugellExhibition
1976Art Galleries TramontanaPalamosExhibition
1977Llorens RoomBarcelonaExhibition
1977Art Room ArmengolOlotExhibition
1978Art Room EmpordàPalafrugellExhibition
1979Gallery RhodesFigueresExhibition
1979Llorens RoomBarcelonaExhibition
1980Gallery BonanovaBarcelonaExhibition
1980Art Galleries TramontanaBarcelonaExhibition
1980Art Room EmpordàPalafrugellExhibition
1981Art Room EmpordàPalafrugellExhibition
1981Art Room EmpordàPalafrugell81 Christmas Exhibition
1982Art Gallery Joseph BuckwheatFigueresSolo exhibition of oil paintings
1982Art Room EmpordàPalafrugellSolo exhibition of oil paintings
1982Studio Villa ClaraLa BisbalSolo exhibition of oil paintings
1982House of Culture Josep PlaPalafrugellExhibition
1983MirapeisExhibition
1983Art Room EmpordàPalafrugellSolo exhibition of oil paintings
1984Art Room EmpordàPalafrugellSolo exhibition of oil paintings
1984Art Galleries The CloisterGironaExhibition
1986Gallery ForumGironaExhibition
1986MadridExhibition in conjunction with the American Chamber of Commerce in Spain
1987Art Gallery Mayte MuñozBarcelona and MadridExhibition
1987Art Room GaberniaValenciaExhibition
1987Gallery ForumGironaExhibition
1988Art Gallery IntellectSabadellSolo exhibition of oil paintings
1988Art Room and ColourVicExhibition
1988Art Gallery Mayte MuñozBarcelonaExhibition
1988Chelsea Art GalleryManresaExhibition
1988Art Room EmpordàPalafrugellExhibition
1988Art Gallery PetritxolBarcelonaExhibition
1989Art Gallery Mayte MuñozMadridExhibition
1989Art Room RoviraSabadellExhibition
1989Art Room IntellectSabadellExhibition
1990Watt's Art GalleryCastellar del VallèsExhibition
1990Art Room LloverasTerrassaExhibition
1990Art Gallery The CloisterGironaExhibition
1990heather RoomManresaExhibition
1991Art Room LloverasTerraceExhibition
1991Art Room El Corte InglesBarcelonaExhibition
1992Art Room xipellaManresaExhibition
1992Art Room RoviraSabadellExhibition
1996Trondhjems Art GalleryNorwayExhibition
1996Gallery GunvorNorwayExhibition
1997Gallery E. HellingsenAalesundExhibition
1998Art Room-4PalafrugellExhibition
1999Trondhjems Art GalleryNorwayExhibition
1999Art Galleries CalellaCalellaExhibition
2000Gallery E. HellingsenAalesundExhibition
2000Art Gallery Mayte MuñozBarcelonaExhibition
2000House of Culture Plum CoveClubsExhibition
2001Salon du Val d'OrFranceExhibition in tribute to the artists disappeared and Spanish Sarquella Ezequiel Torroella
2003Art Room xipellaManresaSolo exhibition of oil paintings
2004Art Room Goya El Corte InglesMadridSolo exhibition of oil paintings
2006Art Gallery Thuiller & ColoursParisExhibition
2007Municipal TheatrePalafrugellExhibition entitled Sobrepera Coast, the landscape and the retina [26] [28]
2008Civic CenterPortbouExhibition
2011Ca PlumClubsExhibition in memory of his wife [30]
2012Municipal TheatrePalafrugellOil Exhibition (July)

Work in museums

His works are found in museums in Catalonia:

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References
  1. Cebollero 2008: p. 15
  2. Cebollero 2008: p. 217
  3. Cebollero 2008: p. 17
  4. Cebollero 2008: p. 19
  5. Art Costa Sobrepera dóna obres a la Diputació, Diari de Girona
  6. «Notícia». Televisió de Girona, 2008. [Consulta: 5 de juliol de 2012].
  7. C., X.. «Costa Sobrepera inaugura demà una exposició». El Punt Avui (3 d'agost de 2011) [Consulta: 5 de juliol de 2012].
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