Angel Codinach (1922-1995) - Vista rural
\Artist: Angel Codinach (1922-1995)
Technique: Oil on canvas\Signature: Hand signed\Dimensions: 38_1_46_cm
Angel Codinach’s vocation for painting manifested from his childhood. His artistic beginnings, always difficult, were supported by his father, who helped him. His father was a great lover of sculpture and an amateur carver, but unfortunately he died very soon. This happened when Codinach was only thirteen years old, and it conditioned in a decisive way his artistic and personal career. For four years he studied at Olot’s School of Fine Arts. There, he studied drawing and painting under the guidance of artists such as Melchor Domengue, Marti Casadevall, Pere Gussinyé and the sculptor Abel Ferrarons, among others. At the beginning of the 1950s, he was part of the groups Cráter de Arte and Grupo de Pintores de Olot created and directed by Josep Mir and Mas de Xeras, with Dr. Candi Agusti, etc. This group was composed of more than thirty plastic artists of different tendencies, who aspired to renew the traditional orientation of art in Olot. They did not disown of the glorious artistic past of the capital of the Garrotxas, but they thought that the lesson was already learnt. The group was composed by different painters, such as Codinach himself, Rafael Griera, Joan Clapera i Maya, the late Frederic Comelles, Josep Mª Vayreda Canadell, Danés Jordi, etc. They were permanently installed in one corner of the bar “La casa del moro” and they regularly exhibited their works in the Principality. They exhibited their works in Barcelona, specifically in the years 1954 and 1956. 1954 was also the year in which Angel Codinach’s presentation took place. It was in the Sala Armengol, in his home city. Later, he was a member of the group Pintores de Olot, with Griera, Bataller, Senderos, Gomez and others. He exposed with them in different cities in the Catalan region, in Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao, at the beginning of the 1960s. On trips sponsored by the Mundi Art gallery, in Barcelona, he visited several cities in Castilla y León between 1971 and 1972. A hard working man, he did not conceive the presence of competitive elements in the world of art. He never wanted to participate in contests at any moment of this career. Recently, he has been awarded with the Silver Medal by El Prat de Llobregat city council. As has been observed by Lina Font, Angel Codinach is a landscape painter who, inserted in the post-impressionist conceptual currents, is characterized by his fingering agility, the fluidity of his impastos, a clear understanding and original approach to the subject. For his expressive language he uses a wide range of bright colours, harmonised with light nuances that he achieves by overlaying pigment. His value is known and recognized within the pictorial circle. He started to be relaunched by people who were enthusiastic about his work, who with an almost absolute dedication were able to introduce his works almost worldwide. Currently, in a discrete but continuous way, it is possible to admire our friend Angel’s work in thirty-five different countries. In such distant places of great cultural difference, which allows us to say that Angel Codinach is a world-renowned artist. Time, and not us, will undoubtedly give us reason.
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\Artist: Angel Codinach (1922-1995)
Technique: Oil on canvas\Signature: Hand signed\Dimensions: 38_1_46_cm
Angel Codinach’s vocation for painting manifested from his childhood. His artistic beginnings, always difficult, were supported by his father, who helped him. His father was a great lover of sculpture and an amateur carver, but unfortunately he died very soon. This happened when Codinach was only thirteen years old, and it conditioned in a decisive way his artistic and personal career. For four years he studied at Olot’s School of Fine Arts. There, he studied drawing and painting under the guidance of artists such as Melchor Domengue, Marti Casadevall, Pere Gussinyé and the sculptor Abel Ferrarons, among others. At the beginning of the 1950s, he was part of the groups Cráter de Arte and Grupo de Pintores de Olot created and directed by Josep Mir and Mas de Xeras, with Dr. Candi Agusti, etc. This group was composed of more than thirty plastic artists of different tendencies, who aspired to renew the traditional orientation of art in Olot. They did not disown of the glorious artistic past of the capital of the Garrotxas, but they thought that the lesson was already learnt. The group was composed by different painters, such as Codinach himself, Rafael Griera, Joan Clapera i Maya, the late Frederic Comelles, Josep Mª Vayreda Canadell, Danés Jordi, etc. They were permanently installed in one corner of the bar “La casa del moro” and they regularly exhibited their works in the Principality. They exhibited their works in Barcelona, specifically in the years 1954 and 1956. 1954 was also the year in which Angel Codinach’s presentation took place. It was in the Sala Armengol, in his home city. Later, he was a member of the group Pintores de Olot, with Griera, Bataller, Senderos, Gomez and others. He exposed with them in different cities in the Catalan region, in Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao, at the beginning of the 1960s. On trips sponsored by the Mundi Art gallery, in Barcelona, he visited several cities in Castilla y León between 1971 and 1972. A hard working man, he did not conceive the presence of competitive elements in the world of art. He never wanted to participate in contests at any moment of this career. Recently, he has been awarded with the Silver Medal by El Prat de Llobregat city council. As has been observed by Lina Font, Angel Codinach is a landscape painter who, inserted in the post-impressionist conceptual currents, is characterized by his fingering agility, the fluidity of his impastos, a clear understanding and original approach to the subject. For his expressive language he uses a wide range of bright colours, harmonised with light nuances that he achieves by overlaying pigment. His value is known and recognized within the pictorial circle. He started to be relaunched by people who were enthusiastic about his work, who with an almost absolute dedication were able to introduce his works almost worldwide. Currently, in a discrete but continuous way, it is possible to admire our friend Angel’s work in thirty-five different countries. In such distant places of great cultural difference, which allows us to say that Angel Codinach is a world-renowned artist. Time, and not us, will undoubtedly give us reason.
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