The artist Perico Pastor will draw a picture live in the Arts Courtyard of the Historic Building
The artist Perico Pastor wants to pay tribute to his parents, graduated in Law from the University of Barcelona (UB) in 1934, and to a generation that personified the illusion broken by the Civil War, a group of people who continued fighting despite the disaster. His tribute includes two different actions. First, on Monday 11 may, at 2 p.m., he draws a picture live with Chinese ink on a big paper in the Arts Courtyard of the Historic Building. Then, on Wednesday 13 May, at 4.30 p.m. he opens an exhibition of drawings painted on paper banderoles. Dr Lourdes Cirlot, vice-rector for Institutional Relations and Culture, accompanies him on the presentation.
The artist Perico Pastor wants to pay tribute to his parents, graduated in Law from the University of Barcelona (UB) in 1934, and to a generation that personified the illusion broken by the Civil War, a group of people who continued fighting despite the disaster. His tribute includes two different actions. First, on Monday 11 may, at 2 p.m., he draws a picture live with Chinese ink on a big paper in the Arts Courtyard of the Historic Building. Then, on Wednesday 13 May, at 4.30 p.m. he opens an exhibition of drawings painted on paper banderoles. Dr Lourdes Cirlot, vice-rector for Institutional Relations and Culture, accompanies him on the presentation.
According to Pastor, the activity aims at “evoking the meaning of the Arts Courtyard of the Historic Builidng of the UB: a symbol of Universityʼs interest in a time —the 2nd Republic— when it hosted brilliant intellectuals like Salvador Espriu, Rosselló-Pòrcel, Pere Ribera, Amàlia Tineo, Octavio Pérez-Vitoria and Jaume Vicens Vives, among many others”.
Both activities complement the exhibition "Els pericos de Perico", which can be visited at El Carme Culture Centre, in Badalona. It includes about fifty works of this personal collection that illustrate his professional evolution and some of the topics he has analysed throughout his career.
Perico Pastor was born in Seu dʼUrgell in 1953; he immigrated to New York in 1976, after completing his studies in Barcelona. There, he worked as an illustrator at Harperʼs Magazine, Village Voice, Vogue and, particularly, The New York Times. Throughout his career, he has exhibited his work in different cities like Paris, Tokyo, Miami and Barcelona. From 1989, he has lived in Barcelona where he has created illustrations for El País, La Vanguardia, El Periódico de Catalunya and the International Herald Tribune. In 1993, he received the Morera Medal Award conferred by the Lleida City Council, and in 1997, he received the Special Award of the Spanish Olympic Committee on the Biennale of Sport in the Fine Arts.