Pere Llobera

Based in Barcelona and born in 1970, Pere Llobera was a resident of Rijksakademie in Amsterdam from 2006 to 2007. He has held several solo exhibitions, including "Things that make crack!" at Fundació Joan Brossa in Barcelona (2023), "ORPLID" at Bombon projects in Barcelona (2022), "Una perfección mäs pequeña" at F2 Galería in Madrid (2020), and "Faula rodona. Sols i embogits; entre la precisió total i una cançó de Sau" at La Capella in Barcelona (2020). Llobera's works have been exhibited in other locations such as MNAC in Barcelona (2018) and Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar (2019), and he has also presented "Acció" at Bombon Projects.

Although Llobera's painting displays formal precision, the conceptual weight of his work has always been one of the most distinctive features of his art. His meta-referential analysis of the craft focuses on both the dysfunctionality of the pictorial activity and its potential for liberation. The painter becomes a survivor who cannot help but continue painting, utilizing a useless and euphoric power to convey everything that exists onto canvas. Although this power is wonderful, it serves no practical purpose.