Barcelona, 1953.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

December 1993 - June 2005

Work: Mario Pasqualotto invites reflection with his works which are created from a rich assortment of materials. Everyday objects; plastics and metals, are all subjected to the will of the artist to create a narrative stemming from deconstruction, and with the ultimate goal of reaching a new construction. The object loses its semantics and approaches new meanings and associations.
Life, the passage of time, death, or barbarism are some of the themes that guide the artist in his investigative process, which lies within a fragile balance between the hard and the sensitive; between the critical and the poetic.

Latest exhibitions:
- Os Huyn Gallery, NY, 2004.
- If this is a man, Gallery Canem, Castellón, 2004.
- Wulbari, E. P.A. Center for Contemporary Art, Turin, 2003.

Santa Fe de Bogotá, 1963.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

May 1999 - September 2007

Work: Painter, photographer, and lithographer, Hernan Ardila creates austere works, devoid of stories and messages to decipher. The color areas in constant motion invite silence, the initiator of all poetic language.
The color planes with hard edges and compositional fragments focus on both the spatial value of the form and on the time of the repetitions and variations of the line, the color and the material.
In his work there is a deep and sincere inquiry, although at the same time light, sensible and practical, on the meaning and the feeling of things.

Latest exhibitions:

- Esther Montoriol Gallery, Barcelona, 2013.

Web: www.hernan-ardila.com

Murcia, 1980.

Periodo de residencia en Piramidón: Octubre de 2010 - Junio de 2011.

Obra: Las relaciones de polaridad y semejanza entre arte y ciencia, cultura y naturaleza, son la base del trabajo de Gil Antonio Munuera. El artista se interesa por el estudio de la materia en estado de transformación, el mundo sutil e imperceptible desde el que se genera la forma.

Asumiendo diferentes roles según la naturaleza de los proyectos que realiza, el estilo y las preocupaciones formales se ven relegadas a su interés por la experimentación y las revelaciones del medio. 

A lo largo de su trayectoria artística ha indagado repetidamente temas como "la visión, los espacios de transición físico-psicológicos, lo embrionario o lo oculto, al tiempo que le han servido como vehículo para tratar de fondo las nociones de orden y caos, control y azar. 

Últimas exposiciones:

- Luz Negra, LAB, Murcia, 2015.

- La lente de Diamante, Galería Artnueve, Murcia, 2014. 

- La luz es como el Agua, Sala Caballerizas, Molinos del Río, Murcia, 2014.

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Barcelona, 1968.

Artà, 1981. 

Període de residència a Piramidón: Octubre de 2012 - Gener de 2013.

Obra: Damià Vives es considera recol·lector de signes latents de la realitat. Aquests signes es focalitzen en conductes, pautes i hàbits socials fruit de l'obervació com a individu condicionat i afectat pel context social que l'envolta. 

L'artista té la necessitat de presentar o representar gràficament allò no visible a partir de l'observació i l'estudi i a través d'un treball metòdic, automatitzat, sistematitzat i depurat. 

Finalment, busca mitjançant la pràctica artística formes i/o fórmules de representar aquestes conductes per veure-les i/o entendre-les millor.

Últimes exposicions:

- Archivo intervenido. Ciudad tomada, Festival de Arte Contemporáneo de Saltillo en la Gazeta de Saltillo, Mèxic, 2015.

- TABULA RASA O LA (IM)POSSIBILITAT DE CONSTRUIR UNA GENERACIÓ, MUU Galleria, Hèlsinki, 2014.

- Damià Vives: més enllà de la línia, Espai B5-125, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 2013. 

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Barcelona, 1960.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

February 1997 - December 2000. 

Work: Painting, sculpture and installations are the disciplines that the author uses to create her argument with a common denominator: the concern for form. With the willingness to make stout forms, enhanced with an evocative flair, Anzano constructs bodies and presences that are conceived, at times as solitary islands and on other occasions forming archipelagos.
With a refined taste for vibrant pigments, the light gives continuous tonal variations while sliding across the undulating forms, denying the aparent stability of color. Although working with abstraction, her forms do not prevent the possibility of an immediate and decipherable blossom of the print of that which is rather human.

Latest exhibitions:
- Parallel visions II, Canals Gallery, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, 2008.
- Weaving the landscape, the Art Observatory, Arnuero, Cantabria, 2007.
- Parallel Visions, Palace of Santillana del Mar, Obra Social Caja Cantabria, 2007.

Web: www.carralanzano.es

Gijón, 1972. 

Period of residence in Piramidón: Since August 2014.

Work: The aesthetic —that also have a strong ethical— raised by Avelino Sala throughout his career articulate a discourse certainly personal, coherent, and yet complex in their readings and their looks.

The diversity of mechanisms employed and expressive languages, which include among others the video, sculpture, photography, neon, drawing or plural world of objects, keeps his (coherent) idea of art but at the same time complex on the diversity of views. 

His images, largely appear to us like allegories or metonymies that exemplify the loneliness of the individual, the frailties that are created in your own personal position, and in the interstices while underlying entities in the global discourse history, or flows and also questions about identity and memory that do nothing but affirm its perishability and missed, they belong to some sort of non-place.

Últimas exposiciones:

- Museo Arqueológico de la revuelta. Caseta Puente de Deusto. Bilbao. 2016. (Exposición individual)

- Tiempos Nuevos, Tiempos Salvaje. Museo Nacional del Sarape, Saltillo. México. 2016. (Exposición incividual)

- PIGS. Centro Museo ARTIUM. Vitoria. 2016.

- ARCO. Galeria ADN, Madrid. 2016

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Tortosa, 1967

Period of residence in Piramidón:

May 2001 - January 2008

Work: A technical engineer in tele-communication, the artist Albert Vergés uses the binary code to express the complexity of the world. Vergés can reduce any   written discourse or numerical construction into a succession of zeros and ones, thus relating technology with art.

During the process of creation, the artist paints beside of a computer that translates the information into binary code. The coded words compel the viewer to travel a reverse path to rediscover the signs with which we are more accustomed to live.

Latest exhibitions:

- 100,000 Haikus, Roselles Gallery, Roses, 2006.

- Lei Wei, Kubiko Space, Madrid, 2005.

- Marketing MIX, Àmbit Art Gallery, Barcelona, 2004.

Web: www.albertverges.com

Vic, 1954.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

July 1994 - September 2008.

Work: The painter and engraver Jordi Cano uses a language based on the incorporation of literary resources combined with visual and formal findings that emerge from painting.
His work is nourished by fables and his pieces seem to have come forth from stories that evoke childlike innocence through his use of transparencies and the color white . Notwithstanding, the black silhouettes that appear on the surface of the paintings seem to deny this innocence, counterposing the characters of the classic children’s literature with the myths of modern and contemporary art.

Latest exhibitions:

- 7:00 AM, María José Castellví Gallery, 2003.
- Mª José Castellví Gallery, Barcelona, 2000.
- Trama Gallery, Barcelona, 1997.

Casablanca, 1966.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

November 1997 - May 2012.

Work: The works of Khalid El Bekay are a crossroads of cultures, a forum where the artist’s thoughts and feelings express his most personal concerns.
At first sight, his works seem to hold the same parameter that identifies them with a personal stamp. However, El Bekay never falls into redundancy, despite the fact that he explains, time and again, similar situations. The color schemes and references to his origins are key features in a work of great expressive power.

Latest exhibitions:

- Individual exhibition, Galería Jorge Alcolea, Barcelona. 2019. 

- 30 de Cinquante, Soartgallery, Casablanca. 2017. Individual exhibition.

- Gerni-K, MX Art Gallery, Bilbao. 2017. Collective exhibition.

- AU-BEIJING, Fondation Hassan II, Rabat. 2016. Individual exhibition. 

- AU-BEIJING, Galería Espiral, Bilbao. 2015. Individual exhibition. 

- Los colores de la tierra, Sala "Albaicín", Palacio de Cultura Marqués de Albaicín, Noja. 2014. Individual exhibition. 

- Antoni Pinyol Gallery. Barcelona. 2012.

- Terre, Delacroix Gallery. Tangiers. 2012. Individual exhibition. 

- Torre Vella. Salou. 2012.

- Costantini Gallery. Milan. 2011

Zaragoza, 1957.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

January 2007 - April 2011.

Work: The work of Paco García Barcos is an invitation to the world of the grotesque and the absurd. His work is arranged through collage and the interventions of both old and new objects from diverse places. The Fran Doutedetoute Impossible Store, one of the highlights of the artist, is a work in progress that Garcia Barcos is constantly changing and expanding. This work consists of an orderly accumulation of dolls, puppets, games, taxidermy, electrical toys, stories, and boxes.

Latest exhibitions:
- Bankers, Jokers, Fernando Latorre Gallery, Madrid, 2012.
- About how we love men. Puppet theater, Fernando Latorre Gallery, Madrid, 2008.
- Fran Doutedetoute. Impossible shop, H2O Gallery, Barcelona, 2007.
- Skull Circus, S. A. , Fernando Latorre Gallery, Madrid, 2006.

Video exposición Fran Doutedetoute. Impossible shop

Barcelona, 1961.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

August 2005 - April 2012.

Work: The landscape of Alicia Ibarra arises from an abstract experience, and approaches, little by little, the limits of figurative representation. This ambiguity makes it more disturbing and evocative. Ibarra wants to involve the viewers, suggesting a path through the quiet and detailed observation of the work, in order to be able to carry them much farther into their memory and to open new doors unto them.

Latest exhibitions:

- Area Two3Two Gallery, Barcelona, 2010.
- Etienne Gallery. Oisterwijk, the Netherlands, 2009.
- Kunstverein Bad Durkheim, Germany, 2009.

Web: www.aliciaibarra.com

 Madrid, 1981.

Madrid, 1974.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

Since January 2000.

Work: Miguel Ángel Pascual’s painting moves between the iconic postmodern and the traditional baroque technique. Its narrative strategy consists in comparing images taken from a variety of sources to generate new meanings. These images, located in spaces called "not places" such as airports or train stations, are spaces of transit that work like iconographic containers whereby inserting different motives, they generates new discourses. His form of applying the paint is analytical, reproducing pixels and graphic effects and data-imaging mixed with gestural painting.

Latest exhibitions:

- Collections: Lapse, Quiosc Gallery, Tremp, 2013.

- Collections, Ferran Cano Gallery, Barcelona, 2011.

- Handbook, Ferran Cano Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, 2010

Web: www.miguelangelpascual.net

Barcelona, 1956.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

Since January 1992.

Work: With a tendency toward repetition as the impetus of his works in series, Carles Gabarro is characterized by his creation of raw works, both fleshy and expressionist. The repeated motifs respond to an interest in learning about something that one can get to through the dedication of one’s life to it.

The painting, superimposed in thick layers, fills the whole of the canvas and finds pleasure in brutality, drips and accidents. The artist works quickly, favoring this leakage and its immediacy, recognizable throughout his entire body of work.

Latest exhibitions:

- Vanitas-Biblioteques, Museu de Montserrat, 2013. 

- Arborescences, Center d'Études Catalanes, Paris, 2012.

- The Factory, Juan Cabré Museum, Calaceite, Teruel, 2010.

- Entanglement, Galerie 10.5 , Paris, 2008.

San Juan, Argentina, 1959.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

Since February 1993.

Work: With photography as his current vehicle, the artist is interested in the historical and evolutionary aspect of photographic practice. The bringing together of hundreds of pictures from various corresponding countries at different moments in the life of anonymous people serves to nurture his own work based on study, analysis and understanding. He pursues the memory, the passage of time, and the fleeting nature of existence. The artist records aspects of everyday life and develops his analog works in a dark room. He then scans the results to convert them into digital files that are easy to consult. The result is converted to an everyday inventory that plays with both the unexpected and the more complex work.

Latest exhibitions:

- Eden, Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, 2012.

- Family album, Aquila 51, Milano, 2011. Fabrice Galvani Gallery, Toulose, 2009.

- Piramidón, Center for Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 2010.

Web: www.patricioreig.com

Palma de Mallorca, 1968.

Periodo de residencia en Piramidón: Febrero de 2002 - Junio de 2005 / Enero - Abril de 2013. 

Obra: Combinando pintura, escultura, animación y fotografía, Pedro Oliver imagina, critica y hace poesía con su obra. Mediante la creación y repetición de imágenes propias el artista crea su propio lenguaje para expresar su repulsión hacia el mundo actual. 

Su estética se acerca al universo del grafiti. Los negros, blancos, rojos, verdes y ocres se repiten paulatinamente, formando figuras y símbolos que nos recuerdan a la poesía visual más que a la pintura tradicional. 

De indiscutible contemporaneidad, Pedro Oliver lleva al límite las posibilidades del lenguaje pictórico con sus constantes iconos que se esconden para volver a aparecer nuevamente, incansablemente. 

Últimas exposiciones:

- A B S / AF RICA, Espai Cendra Deu, Barcelona, 2012.

- AF Rich / KAllaBaSh, Espai Kaleuxe, Palma, 2012.

- Kallabash, Les Paradis artificiels, Galería Por Amor à Arte, Oporto, 2010.  

Madrid, 1964.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

Since 1998.

Work: Having started as self-taught in the world of photography, Bas, since his commencement, has been interested in the new forms of expression and the memory of travel. Traveller, photographer and artist; his work comes from a combination of these three terms. His photographs are based on a deep respect for the photographed; children who live far from the materialistic world. These snapshots are combined with collage and writing; complemented by, and coming to a complete and clear speech directed toward the viewer.

Latest exhibitions:

- The most beautiful land, Cuba, Casa de América, Madrid, 2012.

- JustMad 2012, Blanca Berlín, Madrid, 2102.

- Drive my car, Tagomago Gallery,Barcelona/Paris, 2012.

Web: www.joseramonbas.com

Oristà, Osona, 1954.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

June 1994 - July 2013

Work: Esteve Casanoves manifests himself through sculpture, painting, photography, video and installations with the intention to communicate with the viewer directly, without stammering. The artist investigates the environment of the intersections that occur between the different elements; the construction and deconstruction, movement and stillness. Poetry is breathed in his works that prove both strong and secure. His art is one that is both rhythmic and poetic, that far from figurative representation, becomes the mid-point between delirium and reason.
The artist investigates with materials, textures, spaces, and lights. His work appears to be a labyrinth, with trails and junctions that confuse the viewer with the aim of making one question his own path.

Latest exhibitions:
- Suspended time, Antonio Pérez Foundation, Cuenca, 2012.

Barcelona, 1980.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

December 2011 - February 2012.

Work: Author of the publications History of foam (2008), Enric Miralles on the left and the right (also without glasses) (2010) and Pure Formalism (2011), Bestué is situated on the summit of the contemporary art scene. After having been the 50% of the couple Bestué and Vives, the artist explores around the communicative strategies, seeking to go beyond that which is written.
Using different forms of expression, he looks for new ways to represent reality and explain things. As such, he uses uninhibited, ironic, and humorous language that allows direct communication with the viewer.

Latest exhibitions:

- Stones and poets, Estany de la Mota Gallery, Barcelona, 2013.
- Actions in the Universe (Bestué I Vives). Caixaforum, Barcelona, 2012.
- Difficult orders (Bestué i Vives). Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris, 2011.

Web: www.davidbestue.net

Mijas, Malaga, 1976.

Period of residence in Piramidón:

January 2008 - February 2011

Work: Investigating the topic of human vulnerability, Juan Manuel Reyes expresses, in his works, the fine line between what is alive and what is dead.
His work is seen inundated by a feeling of ambivalence between tenderness and brutality. Enormous faces, faded and devoid of defined features, show us their most remote and hidden side, that of their privacy. Fragility is palpable in some works that invite us to investigate another privacy; our own.

Latest exhibitions:
- El que avisa no es traidor, Punto Art Gallery, Barcelona, 2011.
- Scarface, Pyramidón Center for Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 2010.
- Biopsy, Cultural Center in Fuengirola, Malaga, 2008.