Art exhibition "Constanseu, Plaja Cruañas"

Empordà artists Anna Maria Constanseu, Josep Plaja and Josep Cruañas present their exhibition in Peralada

Anna Maria Constanseu, Pau's daughter living in Castelló d'Empúries, is an artist who started her painting school 25 years ago, Escola d'Art Constanseu, where Castellonians of all ages have been learning the secrets of the art With training in Girona and Barcelona, ​​he currently also gives classes for the city council of the same municipality and has organized, curated and participated as an artist in 17 of the editions of the Art Route, including the one in 2023, which is held every year in Castellón. He has exhibited throughout Alt Empordà and the province, but also in Barcelona, ​​Tarragona, Andalusia, Galicia, León, France, Portugal, Italy, China and Germany.

Josep Cruañas, born in Maià de Montcal (Garrotxa), attended art classes from the age of 15. At 18, he already frequented the studio of the cubist painter Joan Sibecas in Figueres and then at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc in Barcelona, ​​along with other of the best schools in the county town. From the beginning, showing an interest in urban spaces, he decided to travel through Europe and discovered abstraction, surrealism and expressionism. He has been invited to Uruguay, Cuba, where his work was exhibited, as well as to museums in the province (Banyoles, Tossa de Mar, Palamós) and outside it (El Vendrell, Barcelona) and even in Bulgaria In short, his painting is impressionism with abstract touches.

Josep Plaja, from Palafrugell, studied fine arts at the Massana School in Barcelona. He defines his work as neo-impressionist, due to his treatment of light and colors, with a technique used with oil paint. Winner of several painting prizes, especially in the form of fast painting, he has exhibited in numerous collective exhibitions in Figueres, Girona, Barcelona, ​​Palamós, Palafrugell, Madrid, etc., especially at an individual level in the galleries El Claustre in Figueres and Girona and the Arnau Gallery in Barcelona.

The inauguration, which will take place on Saturday July 6 at 7:30 p.m., and to which you are invited, will have the presence of the artists.

The exhibition can be visited until Sunday 28 July, during the opening hours of the Tourism Office.