Benet Sarsanedas

Spanish landscape wit river oil on canvas painting Spain Europe

c.1980

B. Sarsanedas Planella was born in 1942 in Rupit (Barcelona). 1957. He attends drawing and painting classes at the Ateneo de Girona. 1960 He studied in Barcelona and frequented the Artistic Circle of San Lluc where he perfected the technique of drawing, especially the nude. From 1968 to 1974 he traveled mainly in Europe. In 1974 he made his first exhibition in the Sala Jaimes of Barcelona and from 1981 he exhibited regularly in the Comas Gallery. In 1978 he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Miquel Farré International School of Mural Painting in Sant Cugat. Since then he has not stopped traveling in Spain and Europe painting his landscapes: Salamanca, Toledo, Asturias, England, Switzerland, Belgium, Norway, etc. And has also held numerous solo exhibitions, both in Spain and abroad. Expressionist trend painter, uses in his works the palette, with a very refined technique, where it includes great density of paste, texture, glazes and transparencies that show landscapes in which nature becomes aggressive, reminding us of undulations and formal simplifications Of Kokoschka and Nolde.