Love and Death

Conrad Roset

08/05/14. (Sala 307)

Conrad Roset born in Terrassa 30 years ago, currently lives in Barcelona. He has shown his work in cities like London, Paris, San Francisco and New York.

After holding no exhibithions in Barcelona for two years, he makes a come back with his new collection called “Love and Death” held at La Sala Vinçon. It’s a dark reflection on beauty, sensuality and death.

Following the release of his book titled “Musas” published by Norma Editorial, Conrad reflects and evolves into a darker universe. In this new world detail and organic ornaments acquire relevance with respect to his previous work. We see new elements appear like flowers, eyes and insects that create a strange atmosphere.

After a figurative trajectory, he now chooses to decompose the image, the arms, legs and the face fall apart to give way to discontinuous lines, blotches of colour, and drops of acrylic paint. Indian ink predominates over other techniques.

Strong and fearless colours, expressive and spontaneous colour mixed with an uneven stroke and done with a fountain pen which Conrad wants to transmit a broken beauty with all form part of his work.

On this occasion, La Sala Vinçon shows an exclusive collection of lithographs that represent a journey through sensuality, the ephemeral and death.

Biography
Conrad Roset spent the first part of his 30 years in Terrassa, his native city, among boxes of crayons, felt-tip pens and notebooks; the other part in Barcelona, surrounded by paints, moleskine notebooks, muses, colored pencils, and in the company of his gray cat. Drawing has been his passion and a constant feature in his life, since he played with his brother at drawing everything they liked until, years later, he draw inspiration from women to create the Muses, his most personal collection. “I search the beauty the body exudes, I like drawing the female figure.”

He received his education at the Joso School and at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Thanks to the spreading of his illustrations through the Internet, he started working for Zara. There, he says, he learnt about his trade, about regularity, and how to study styles of reference illustrators. A year later, he launched himself as a freelance artist, and since then he works for different brands, advertising agencies, and publishing companies.

He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums, such as the MOMA in Virginia, Spoke Art in San Francisco, London Miles in London, Tipos Infames in Madrid, and Artevistas and Miscelanea in Barcelona. Besides, he is a professor of illustration at the School of Design BAU.