Benjamin Tous

Benjamín Tous - Without title

Técnica: Oil

Biografía del Artista: Benjamín Tous is a contemporary artist born in Lleida, Spain in 1949. He trained as an artist at the School of Arts and Crafts in Lleida and later at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Tous began his artistic career in the 1970s, and his work focused on the exploration of the human figure and nature. Using techniques of drawing, painting and sculpture, Tous created works that reflected his deep interest in anatomy, expression and human movement. In the 1980s, Tous began experimenting with new media and techniques, including photography and installation. His work became more abstract and conceptual, but continued to explore themes such as identity and the perception of the human being in relation to the world around him. One of Tous's best-known works is "The Garden of Mirrors", an installation of mirrors and water that created an optical illusion effect and reflected light in astonishing ways. This work was exhibited in various galleries and museums of contemporary art in Europe and Latin America. In addition to his career as an artist, Tous has also been a committed activist in the Catalan cultural movement. He has participated in numerous collective and solo exhibitions and has received several awards and recognitions for his work. Currently, Benjamín Tous continues to work in his studio in Lleida and remains an important figure in the contemporary art scene in Spain. His work continues to explore relevant and universal themes related to human nature and its relationship with the world around it.

Benjamín Tous is a versatile painter, a child who retains innocence, imagination and the ability to create fantastic worlds. His is a view from an inner, personal, intimate world. The painter must believe, know, that the game is the needle that marks the hours, the spaces, of each canvas, of each brushstroke, of each painting. The clock of creativity needs bright, open eyes, attentive to the sensitivity that ordinary people have already lost. His painting has received numerous awards and various galleries in Barcelona, ​​Lleida, Asturias, Malaga… and the rest of Europe have, as a collection of art, some of his pieces. Born in Almacelles (Lleida) in 1949, he graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. He has exhibited in both Catalan and Asturian galleries, with his latest exhibitions at the Barjola Museum in 2019, as he has had a residence and workshop in Gijón for more than 15 years. He is a true creative source, having cultivated both comics, with characters such as Eloy, which have been published for more than thirty years in Tàrrega publications. His way of understanding art is like a game, and his registers are so many that every day of the week he paints from a different personality and, with each one, he works with different styles, different colors and even signs the paintings with different fonts. Anyone who enters his studio for the first time (just behind the Palau de la Música, in the centre of Barcelona) cannot help but look everywhere. There are paintings, drawings and illustrations in every corner. There are more than one hundred square metres dedicated to the imagination and fantasy of a tireless creator. Tous' painting is self-referential. Albert Llado