Ramon Enrich
Born in 1968, lives and works in Barcelona, Spain
Ramon Enrich is a contemporary painter who was born in Igualada near Barcelona in 1968. His knitwear-maker father's interest in the arts was a major influence on his life. In 1985, he began his formal technical education at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, then majored in graphic arts at Gremi d'Arts Grafiques de Catalunya, while also studying history of art at the University of Barcelona.
During his student years, the painter began involving travel in his art with university exchanges at Beaux-Arts de Paris and Berlin University of the Arts. After graduation, Ramon Enrich moved to the USA to meet his painting influences. He spent time at the Judd Foundation and the Chinati Foundation before exhibiting his work at the start of the 1990s. He traveled on to Los Angeles, where he met Ed Ruscha and David Hockney, with whom he collaborated. He then spent a few years in New York, becoming Julian Schnabel's assistant.
For Ramon Enrich, this period was about learning how to "organize an artist's life", more from an operational viewpoint than a creative one, and also feeding his multiple sources of inspiration. On his return to Europe, he occupied a workshop in Frankfurt's Künstlerhaus Mousonturm before going home to Catalonia, where he has lived ever since.
In his paintings, Enrich establishes a dialogue between architecture and landscape in a figurative work boasting geometric shapes and an enigmatic atmosphere. The landscapes and the simplicity of the forms (near abstract) make for a very theatrical view of architecture. Losing yourself in these enigmatic landscapes, Ramon Enrich takes you on a journey that's more psychological than physical, trying, to use his words, " to let something hidden be seen, allowing inexplicable connections."