Mercè Girona is an artist difficult to label. Her work is the result of all the ideas that fuel her emotions, translated into painting, sculpture and jewelry. This peculiar way of interpreting creativity through multiple artistic expression is closely related to her vibrant biography.
Although her name is Catalan, Mercè Girona has an international background. From a family linked to the art world (Rafael Benet, Josep Llimona, Maria Girona…), Girona was born in Barcelona, spent her childhood in Buenos Aires and studied in Massachusetts. She obtained her BFA in painting and sculpture at the Hartford Art School in Connecticut and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. At the early age of seventeen, she moved to New York, where she studied jewelry design at the prestigious Parsons School of Design. After more than two decades in Manhattan, she returned to Barcelona to reconnect with her roots. Over the past three years, she has lived partly in Barcelona and partly in southern France, where she has created much of her recent work. She currently lives and works in the neighborhood of Gràcia, in Barcelona.
Her beginnings in the world of art date back to when she was nine and already taking up the brush to express herself through her first still lifes. Later, while in high school in Massachusetts, she worked on sculptural ceramics. Since then, she has dedicated her life to artistic discourse in various languages, primarily painting, sculpture and jewelry design. All converge inside her, breathing a common soul, but when it comes to expressing them, Girona separates them clearly. Her jewelry is the result of studying the essence of the human body and the desire to enhance its beauty. In the field of sculpture, she delights in exploration of volume and shape. With regard to her painting, she works with a plain language rendered in large scale. Her pictorial work is based on the intuitive and the conceptual, an inner need to explain intangible, subtle sensations. Her abstract paintings emerge from emotion and poetry.
“Die Farbe ist die Taste. Das Auge ist der Hammer. Die Seele ist das Klavier mit vielen Saiten.
Der Künstler ist die Hand, die durch diese oder jene Taste zweckmäßig die menschliche Seele in Vibration bringt.”
- Wassily Kandinsky, “Über das Geistige in der Kunst” (1912)
“Color is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching one or another key, sets the soul vibrating appropriately.”
- Wassily Kandinsky, “Concerning the Spiritual in Art.”
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I am a painter, sculptor and designer of ideas that feed my soul.
