Manel Pujol Balada

In 1962, he studied graphic design and painting at the Massana School.2 Two years later he was appointed assistant professor and served as artistic director in various advertising agencies, to finally create the Baladas & Galdon publishing house in 1971.

In 1987-1988, he participated in the edition of lithographs for the literary prize "The Vertical Smile" by Editorial Tusquets; in 1990 he made prints for the book "Vent de Marbre" by Jacint Sala (poetry) edition 62; the same year he exhibits at the Museum of Hispanic Art (San Francisco, USA) and the Elbine Dalvanes Gallery Museum (Paris, France).

He made the Olympic Suite "Tribute to the Barcelona 92 Olympic Sub-Venues" in permanent exhibition at the Olympic Museums of Barcelona and Laussanne, in 1992.

In 1995, he received the Sant Jordi Prize for the Arts in the Arts awarded by the Promedic Foundation with the support of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

He exhibited in 1996 with the Sotelo Blanco Foundation. Museum of Anthropology of Santiago de Compostela, the Nakita Gallery (Stockholm, Sweden), Corinne Timsit International Galleries Inc. (San Juan de Puerto Rico and Paris, France).

In addition to having participated in individual exhibitions, Pujol Baladas has been part of collective exhibitions, together with artists such as Joan Genovés, Cuixart, Guinovart, Barceló, among others.

His work is distributed in different international museums, among which could be included the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Anthropology of Santiago de Compostela, the Olympic Museum of Lausanne, the Museum of Art of Querétaro et cetera.

In his work he recreates all mixtures of emotions and feelings, from the earthly to the most ethereal. In 1997 he arrived in Mexico invited to make an exhibition "Germ of Illusions", a place that has seen him consolidate his painting and creative art. He lives in Mexico since 1998.

Regarding ideology, Pujol is a strong advocate that the image is obtained from sound.4 5 It has more than 50 individual exhibitions in Mexico, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, France and the USA, among found "The color of music by Rodolfo Halffter", Pecanins Gallery (Mexico City, 2005); "Opus in color", Museum of Anthropology (Jalapa, Ver., Mexico, 2004); Museum of Art of Querétaro (Querétaro, Mexico, 2001); Institute of Culture of Spain in El Salvador (San Salvador, El Salvador, 2000); "From meat to passion", Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros (Mexico City, 1999).

Between 2008 and 2009, in the work of Pujol Baladas they engage in dialogue with works by two excellent composers, on the one hand the powerful Beethoven with his powerful 5th symphony and on the other, Carlos Chávez, with his mexicanísimas and expressive harp compositions. Immediately, we see how Pujol translates what he hears on the canvas, the sounds of the harp become at times, thin draining of paint over an orchestral atmosphere of chromatic gradations, while in works dedicated to Beethoven's fifth, the strokes become thick, there is no more background than the determined and expressive chromatic stripes that go through the composition, as the instrumental ensembles penetrate into the concert hall with their sound impretu, with their controlled outbursts of passion that sounds and resonates in orchestral tails and then escapes to make way for another stampede of notes.

His exhibition “La Fuerza de un Encuentro", Museum of Abstract Art “Manuel Felguérez, March-June (Zacatecas, Za., 2008) was a review of his work in his first ten years in the country, considering exclusively his analysis of language musical.

Maintains an active participation in the realization of cover illustrations for books such as: illustration of the book “Ramon Xirau; in the gardens of time "by José Maria Espinasa in 2005; The cover and interiors in the magazine Universo del Owl of the Rene Aviles Fabila Foundation in 2008 and in 2013 made the cover of the book Material del Deseo, the winner of the 2012 Cervantes prize, as well as the cover of the book Luz everywhere. Cees Noteebom snow.