Josep Maria de Sucre

Josep Maria de Sucre (Barcelona, 1886-1969) was a painter, poet, art critic and one of the great cultural promoters of his time. His career occupies a key place in the transition from Noucentisme to the avant-garde in 20th-century Catalonia.

With a sensitivity ahead of his time, his work anticipates some of the neo-expressionist approaches that would emerge decades later, especially in his way of delving into human psychology through the face.

Faces, masks and portraits become spaces for exploring interiority, marked by an expressive intensity and a disturbing depth that directly appeal to the public.

This exhibition aims to pay tribute to Josep Maria de Sucre by highlighting not only his artistic output, but also his decisive role as the spiritual patron of a generation of artists in the immediate post-war period.

The exhibition brings together works by around thirty Catalan creators who resumed the momentum of the early avant-gardes, which had been interrupted by the Spanish Civil War.

In this context, Sucre's work was fundamental as a bridge between artists linked to the Republican period and the new emerging creators who, thanks to French Institute grants to stay in Paris, were able to reconnect with international artistic currents and a cosmopolitan vocation of modernity.

The exhibition proposal thus seeks to rediscover a figure and a historical moment that demand close attention within the narrative of post-war Catalan art. Exhibition curated by Aitor Quiney and Joan Gil Gregorio.