Gerard Espí

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The work of Gerard Espí (Barcelona, 1971) stands out for the way it shows the characteristic freshness of young, independent creators anxious to explore new languages. The world recreated in his engravings is a conflation of the abstract and the concrete, of natural and artificial colours, of the industrial and the domestic. In addition to working with different traditional resources, such as acids and dry point, the artist’s plates incorporate meshes, pieces of leather, and other elements that give his engravings a peculiar and characteristic look. Espí has worked and experimented in his studio with artists like Ràfols-Casamada, Anna Miquel, Masafumi Yamamoto, Jaume Ribas and Hernández Pijuan, among others, and in 1999 he was given the Premio Nacional de Grabado and the Premio Generación 2001 by the Caja Madrid, in the engraving category.