It is with immeasurable pleasure that Kairoi Art Digital Museum recognises the work of one of the flagships of contemporary Spanish painting and sculpture, the artist Rafa Forteza, who has made it possible for us to obtain intense information about his career, his works, exhibitions, collections and texts signed by essential pens in the mouldable literature that, with their narrative, reveal to us a hyper-chemical, acid, metallurgical artist, the most impious and shameless of all those who swarm the atmosphere of the plastic planet.
Rafa Forteza was born in Mallorca in 1955 and currently lives in the town of Alaró, where he has space for his workshop and studio. Surrounded by books, Rafa has a doctorate in philosophy and art history. He is a football fan who usually watches football matches in the bar near his home, with his soul friend and sculptor, Pep Llambies.
His collections of works have been shown in numerous prestigious places all over the world, galleries, museums, international fairs such as L21, Kewenig Mallorca, Pelaires, Joan Miró Foundation, Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg, Kunst Station Sankt Peter in Cologne, and in the Museum of Contemporary Art Es Baluard in Mallorca. His work has been shown at international fairs; ARCO Madrid, Art Basel or Art Cologne, and is part of collections such as the MoMA in New York, Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Centre Pompidou in Paris, DeutscheBank Collection, La Caixa Collection, Münchner Kunstlerhaus Stiftung in Munich…among others.
Kairoi Art Digital Museum in its determination to show the work of artists of all disciplines, takes a new step with the incorporation of the pictorial and sculptural pieces of this brilliant creator of expressions and forms, that some conceived close to Art Brut and others define him as part of the Art Povera movement, but Rafa Forteza, although he makes use of recycled materials, does not stop at the margins of the established disciplines or at those that are free to roam, he always ventures towards infinite elements, towards universes, his symbology and his iconography are always synchronised one step ahead.
Text: Xisco Barceló
