Benet Rossell(1937-2016)

Benet Rossell was a multidisciplinary artist: painter, draftsman, video artist, poet, engraver, sculptor, musician, performer, screenwriter and, since the late 1960s , experimental filmmaker. In 1955 he moved to Barcelona to begin his pre-university studies. In 1962 he was invited to Paris to give a lecture at the International Congress of Economists. There he developed his interest in cinema and theater. In the early 1970s he published humorous drawings in newspapers such as 'Les Lettres françaises', 'La Quinzaine Littéraire' or 'Le Jardin des Modes'. He celebrated his first individual exhibition in Paris in 1970 in the gallery La Bazarine, where it's already evident his attraction to the diminutive in his drawings, that he calls "made by blind people", almost microscopic, and which were accompanied by magnifying glasses to be able to observe them. Rossell's art is born of precariousness and is claimed in the small and everyday spectacle of life. His work plays with the bewilderment that causes simplicity, with the complexity of what is simple, is interested in what is behind, in the corners, so it is not easily seen, since the essence of everything tends to be hidden.