On the occasion of Picasso Year 2023, the Col·lecció Jordi Costa del Taller de Picasso de Barcelona has presented the historical posters of 1971 and 1972 in homage to Pablo Picasso for his 90th and 91st anniversary. The posters are witness to gallery attack suffered in 1971 for its association with the image of Picasso.
Half a century later, the painting Memory, Freedom, Hope (1977), by the artist Domingo Millán (Alcoy, 1947 – 2016), has been exhibited again in Barcelona, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the art gallery Taller de Picasso. Sant Felip Neri, with the trail of shrapnel from the bombs. /Photo: Lorenzo Duaso The artwork, which alludes
A total of 17 copies of the collection of bibliography books ‘Poemes i Dibuixos’ (Poems and Drawings), edited by Jordi Costa -owner of Taller de Picasso-, are part of the Library of US Congress. This institution brings together the largest volume of rare and valuable books, including one of only four intact copies of Gutenberg’s
Today’s Barceloneta is very different from the maritime neighborhood before the 1992 Olympic Games. The urban transformation that this emblematic area of Barcelona experienced, very close to the Olympic Village, and the great growth of tourism since then, with the construction of new buildings – such as the so-called Hotel Vela – have completely changed
The art dealer and owner of Taller de Picasso, Jordi Costa, maintained a very close relationship with the artists. And it is that his gallery was not only an exhibition center, but also a point of social life of great effervescence, even during the Franco era, when it also acted as a refuge and epicenter
At the end of 1971, Taller de Picasso gallery suffered one of the biggest attacks on a cultural center perpetrated during the last years of the Franco dictatorship in Spain. That attack, which was followed by another attack, caught the attention of the media all over the world, as well as the community of Spanish
What is the connection between Taller de Picasso and the Herzog August Library? What is the relationship between the Catalan writer Manuel de Pedrolo (1918-1990) and the English Hispanist Alan Soons (1925-2011), with the also known as Augusta Library? The answer we have in one of the copies of the collection ‘Poemes i Dibuixos’ edited
Jordi Costa, the founder of Taller de Picasso gallery, is the grandson of Vicenç Martínez, one of Barça’s best strikers. The Barcelona striker (1896 – 1963) is one of the greatest scorers in the history of FC Barcelona, with a total of 200 goals between 1912 and 1923. In addition, Martinez owned the building that
Joan Roman is one of the most prolific artists in Taller de Picasso. He exhibited in the gallery at various times in the 70s and 80s, something that allows us to capture the artistic evolution of a painter who, according to critics, expresses very well the duality of the combat between “external and circumstantial elements” and “the
The figures of Pablo Picasso and Jordi Costa were rediscovered in 1992, when the art dealer collaborated with the restaurant diary Els 4 Gats with the assembly of an exhibition of artists of the gallery Taller de Picasso. The show, known as The Best of the Decade, served to commemorate the first anniversary of 4 Gats Diari. Jordi
