Pere Noguera
Pere Noguera, born in La Bisbal d’Empordà in 1941, began his artistic career as a practitioner of the new poor, ephemeral and conceptual poetics in the 1970s, making process sculpture with an energetic aesthetic approach based on deconstruction and fragmentation that had affinities to arte povera. He later produced works on the conceptual processes of photography and electrography, and was a pioneer in works made from photocopies in the 1970s, as well as exploring the concept of the archive as a ready-made based on found photographs and film. Irony, deviation of meaning and decontextualisation are strategies that Noguera frequently uses to subvert the gaze and create a new semantics of reality. In his practice, Noguera works in the fields of installation, performance and set design.
In 2011, the Antoni Tàpies Foundation presented the exhibition Pere Noguera. Històries d’arxiu (1974-2011), and the artist’s work also featured in such shows as L’avantguarda de l’escultura catalana, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, 1989), Idees i actituds. Entorn de l’art conceptual a Catalunya, 1964-1980, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, 1989) and Cornerhouse (Manchester, 1994) - University of Southampton (Southampton, 1994).
His most outstanding installations include, amongst others, Serrallo. Surar és l’acte. Física de lloc, Tinglado 2 (Tarragona, 2002), Memòria del so in “Canten les pedres”, Sales Municipals de Girona (Girona, 2001), Eur in “Homo ecologicus”, Joan Miró Foundation (Barcelona, 1996), Llacs, illes, pedrals i morts, Palau de la Virreina (Barcelona, 1996), Com si, Carambolage, Biennale der Partnerregionen, Kunsthalle (Baden-Baden, 1992), Flux, Joan Miró Foundation (Barcelona, 1986), Torens van Babel (Montevideo, Antwerp, 1984), Fe2O3, Metrònom (Barcelona, 1983), Terres, Centre Pompidou (Paris, 1983) and Museu-Ficció (Olot, 1982).
Works by Pere Noguera are found particularly in the Rafael Tous Contemporary Art Collection, the Vila Casas Foundation, MACBA and Artium.
Biography written in 2013
