Pere Bennàssar Obrador

Pere Bennássar has always been fascinated by unknown geographies, to escape from the usual, escaping from the oppression of the island's daily routine and traveling to remote places that provide him with ideas for his later works. It is very necessary to risk everything...

It is the only way that Pere Bennássar knows to open up new paths and be able to create deeply personal aesthetics, in the midst of the maelstrom of plastic arts. The effort is great, but it is worth visiting new geographies and later working on them and allowing the public to later enjoy their creations, feel their personality and see the final result of their work. In the eighties, the exhibitions of his works began in the US; Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami... and also in Mexico, where all the samples were a great success with the public and critics. Later, he works in Europe, living in various cities such as Basel, Göteborg and spending long periods of time in Berlin. These cities allowed him to come into contact with very diverse artists and aesthetics, expanding his knowledge with which he would reach the depths of his personality and also had an important impact on his works. The first contact with the East occurs in 1997 through a two-year trip through Asia, which would have a major change in the artist's life. He sets up his painting studio in the Indonesian jungle, he paints for months, isolated in very primary, precarious and harsh conditions, but the coexistence he maintains with the indigenous people helps him learn many aspects of their culture. His works are inspired, especially, by his environment: the jungle and its prolific fauna: snakes, monkeys, insects and many other species of which Bennássar makes his own very particular visions. After completing his production on these themes, he transported the works over two thousand kilometers to Jakarta to exhibit them at the Spanish embassy. The work of Pere Bennássar has followed, since its inception, a line of crucial use of vivid and deep color, difficult to classify and with a relevant personality, maintaining the sure line that has been refined through the trips carried out.

For six years he has spent long periods in Morocco and, in addition to painting, he works with ceramics, an ancestral technique that is not easy and that the artist has risked developing with bronze with Berber artisans. With his continuous willingness to learn a lot from different cultures, he is impregnated with the Berber and Arab culture, with atavistic techniques from the Egyptian and Greek times. He has spent months in a small town in the Atlas Mountains, which is accessed by difficult roads and with the donkey as the only means of transportation, a town isolated from Western culture, sharing his stay with peasants and artisans, who have served him well. to create a sphere of distance with Western culture.

The works that Bennássar is exhibiting now have the double value of having been made in a place very different from his own culture and, secondly, of having introduced people who do not have many ways of survival into their production, for which the artist He is proud of having created a way of life with his work, for a people who have basic and ancestral knowledge, but who can hardly survive. The list of artists and works that have been inspired by other diverse cultures such as those of the East is endless. From the Bible through The Thousand and One Nights, Byron, Victor Hugo, the romantic literature that is contagious with the dreams of the oriental journey, Flaubert, Madame Bovary, the paintings of Rembrandt, Gustave Moreau who is inspired by the Orient and Fortuny who especially in Africa, Renoir, also made paintings inspired by other cultures, or Delacroix, who introduces the exotic and orientalist and the fascinating and brilliant

Matisse, from whom the artist considers himself influenced, once said: "The revolution of my art begins with the East". humility and simplicity, essential requirements to know the beauty that leads us to a sincere, calm and pure thought."

Cap des Moró 2006

1984 Single. Sa Nostra, Felanitx.

collective "Homage to Sonia Delaunay". 4 Cats Gallery, Palma.

1985 Individual. Gallery 4 Cats. Palma

1986 Collective. "Banca March Foundation", Palma.

collective Painting prize, "City of Palma". Palau Solleric, Palma.

1987 Individual. "Art Cellar". Blanes, (Girona).

collective "Valencia Water". 4 Cats Gallery, Palma.

collective Artual Gallery, Barcelona.

collective Ceramics Lluc Fluxà Gallery, Palma.

1988 Individual. Ferran Cano Gallery, Palma.

individual Lois Strom Gallery. Los Angeles. (USA)

"Testimony" Collection, La Caixa. (Catalogue)

collective ARCO 88. Stand 4 Cats — Ferran Cano. Madrid (Catalogue)

collective "Interart". Stand 4 Cats. Valencia. (Catalogue)

collective Art 1988. Stand 4 Cats — Ferran Cano, Basel, Switzerland. (Catalogue)

collective "Ernesto Schmidt Collection". Basel, Switzerland.

collective Jorge Kreisler Gallery. Madrid

collective Collection "Testimony 87-88. La Caixa", Barcelona.

collective "Time and art. City Council of Felanitx", Mallorca. (Catalogue)

collective "Tobermory Gallery". Mahon, Menorca.

1989 Single. Jorge Kreisler Gallery. Madrid. (Catalogue)

Individual. Altxerri Gallery. Saint Sebastian.

collective. “Art Frankfurt". 4 Gats Gallery — Ferran Cano. Frankfurt, Germany. (Catalogue)

collective. "Kuns Rai 89". Amsterdam, Holland.

collective. Art 2089. 4 Gats Gallery — Ferran Cano. Basel, Switzerland. (Catalogue)

collective. "Interart". Stand 4 Gats. Valencia.

collective. “The brackish memory, L'Alguer". Sardinia, Italy. (Catalogue)

1990 Single. Marieta Gual Gallery. Cala d'Or, Majorca.

Individual. Galleri Konstepidemin, Johnny Ericsson. Gothenburg, Sweden. (Catalogue)

collective. 6 Felanitx 6. Circle of Fine Arts. Palm. (Catalogue)

collective. Arco 90. 4 Gats Gallery — Ferran Cano. Madrid. (Catalogue)

collective. Art Frankfurt '90. 4 Gats Gallery — Ferran Cano. Frankfurt, Germany. (Catalogue)

collective. Art 21 '90. 4 Gats Gallery — Ferran Cano. Basel, Switzerland. (Catalogue)

collective. “Art Junction 90". 4 Gats Gallery — Ferran Cano. Valencia. (Catalogue)

1991 Single. ceramics. 4 Gats Gallery. Palm.

Individual. Ferran Cano Gallery. Palm.

collective "Stockholm Artfair. Gallery Konstepidemin. Johnny Ericsson". Sweden.

collective ARCO 91. Gallery 4 Cats — Ferran Cano. Madrid (Catalogue)

collective "Artfair Basel 91". Basel, Switzerland. (Catalogue)

Collective, 1st painting prize, "Fundació Barceló". Palma

1992 Collective, Arco 92, Galería 4 Gats — Ferran Cano. Madrid (Catalogue)

Itinerante, 15 — 30, "Young Painting in Mallorca". (Catalogue)

Collective, Arts and crafts, "Casal Solleric". Palma (Catalogue)

"Balearic Byways, Cultural Confluences in the Mediterranean".

"International Monetary Fund. Washington DC", (USA) (Catalogue)

Individual, Galería Maria Antònia Perelló. Manacor, Majorca

collective "100 years — 100 painters". La Lonja — La Misericordia, Palma. (Catalogue)

1993 Individual. Main Gallery Pollensa, Majorca.

individual Ferran Cano Gallery, Barcelona.

itinerant "Young Painting in the East of Mallorca". (Catalogue)

"Tower of Ses Puntes and traveling through Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera". (Catalogue)

1994 Individual. ABA Gallery. Berlin, Germany.

collective Arco 94. Ferran Cano, Madrid. (Catalogue)

collective "Chicago Artfair '94". Ferran Cano Chicago. (USA)

collective “Spanish Art the Modern Century. Hilton International". Jakarta Indonesia. (Catalogue)

1995 Individual. Ferran Cano Gallery. Palma

"Barceló Foundation" award-winning works. Palma (Catalogue)

collective Arco 95. Ferran Cano Gallery. Madrid (Catalogue)

collective Galerie Richter. Berlin, Germany.

1996 Galería S'Escala 3. Felanitx. Majorca

1997 Individual "7th Painting Exhibition from "10 of the Best". Embassy of Spain". Jakarta, Indonesia.

(Catalogue)

2000 Collective. 1st access Torre dels Enagistes, Manacor, Mallorca.

collective "VII City of Manacor Award", Mallorca.

Culture room, Mahón, Menorca. (Catalogue)

2001 Collective. "VIII City of Manacor Award", Torre del Enagistes, Manacor, Mallorca. (Catalogue)

"Erotism in Contemporary Art in the Balearic Islands", Itinerante. Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza,

Barcelona, Espai Mallorca. (Catalogue)

2002 Individual. Casal Solleric Works since 1986. Palma. (Catalogue)

2004 Individual. "Can Gelabert" culture house. Moroccan paintings and ceramics.

2005 Individual, Between the sky and the earth, from the real to the ideal, Galería Altai, Palma.

Collective "Can Gelabert", Visual arts, 2000, 2005. (Catalogue)

2006 Collective. "Esturmiart", traveling around Mallorca, Inauguration in Capdepera, Mallorca.

individual Cap des Moró "El quinto Pino ART-CLUB", Santanyí, Mallorca. (Catalogue)

2007 Individual. "Zelligs kites", Galería Fran Reus, Palma. (Catalogue)

2008 Collective, "Twenty-five years", Altair Gallery, Palma. (Catalogue)

Individual, "Waves, Barceló Foundation", Felanitx

2009 Collective, "Exquisite Corpse", Traveling around the Balearic Islands. Espai Mallorca, Barcelona.

Son Más Castle Andratx

"Can Creu d'Inca". Museum of Contemporary Art of Mallorca. Can Planas Sa Pobla (Catalogue)

Individual, "ceramics and perfumes from Tameslouht", Cultural Center. Felanitx, Torre de ses

spikes Manacor, Majorca.

Collective "Open End Session". Cap des Moró "El quinto Pino ART-CLUB", Santanyí, Mallorca.

2010 Collective, Papers, "Night of Art" X Edition, Felanitx, Mallorca.

collective "Exquisite Corpse". Can Jaume Antoni, Santanyí, Mallorca.

"Sa Quartera Art Center". Inca, Majorca.

collective "Exquisite Corpse". Museum of Menorca. mahogany

Sa Nostra, Ibiza.

S'Escorxador, Porreras, Mallorca.

2011 Collective. "Cristòfol Columbus and Felanitx", Two portraits, Centro Cultural, Felanitx, Mallorca.

collective "Exquisite Corpse". Museo y fondos artísticas de Porreras, Mallorca.

collective "Neuroffnung", Galería Simon Nolte. Portocolom, Majorca.

collective "ViArt, Casal Son Tugores", Alaró, Mallorca.

2012 Permanent collective Galería Simon Nolte, Portocolom, Mallorca.

2013 Inauguration of the "Atelier Pere Bennàssar, Face to Face". Felanitx, Majorca.

2014 "Simetries, Evening of Art and Music", Portocolom, Mallorca.

2015 Individual. Ca'n Dinsky Gallery, Son Servera, Mallorca.

2016 Collective. "Vorera verora", Marruecos-Mallorca

III edition "Night of art". Son Servera, Mallorca.

2017 Individual. "OPUS REVOLUTIUM", House of Culture in Felanitx, Mallorca. (Catalogue)

"Night of Art, Atelier Pere Bennàssar, OPUS REVOLUTIUM", Guest artist "Peter Marquant",

Felanitx, Majorca.

2018 Ceramic collective, "Arrels", CCA, Andratx, Mallorca.

2019 Ceramic collective, "Roots"

2021 / 2023 Representation with "Gallery Can Boni", Palma, Mallorca.

2021 Collective. "eight"

2021 Collective, "Anonymous"

2021 Collective. "Autumn"

2022 Collective "High Five"

2022 Collective "Night of Art", Palma.

2023 Collective “Night of Art, Palma.